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RINO Tom
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« on: May 03, 2018, 10:31:56 AM »

This is what we all wanted from the beginning, for her to be "authentic" and "honest." Now when she is, people still complain. Hillary can never make anyone happy.

That's not the point.  She's completely delusional, and she's focus on every single one of the thousand paper cuts that did her in as the *reason* she lost, depending on which interview she's given.  Sexism cost her the election?  Democrats were peddling the narrative of "anyone who wouldn't vote for a Black/female/gay/foreign/whatever candidate is voting Republican already" narrative MANY, many years before 2016.  Being a "capitalist" cost her votes in the primary?  So what?  You WON the primary; why do you even care?!  It just comes across as her chastising 40% of her own party.  Trump won in places that "weren't dynamic" and were kind of down and out?  THAT'S YOUR FAULT.  You're the frickin' Democratic nominee for President, stopping in town halls across the country claiming that you're the party that stands up for the little guy and that Republicans only stand up for affluent, White men, and then you turn around and talk about Trump voters like they're these icky undesirables that weren't good enough to vote for you?

The woman, through the most subtle ways (ways that are easy to explain away and defend by her supporters on a case by case basis but start to point to a trend when they're literally all she talks about now) but over and over, gives off the impression that she's an elitist.  Period.  That, predictably, cost her votes that she needed as the nominee of a liberal political party (an ideology that is at least SUPPOSED to stand against elitism and concentrated wealth and power), and now she's bitter about it even though she should have seen it coming from a mile away.  Being a woman cost her votes.  Being a "capitalist" (like every other Democratic nominee ever, BTW) probably cost her some primary votes.  Refusing to be as *racist* as Trump cost her votes (but won her others).  You know what would have EASILY made up the difference?  If she had appeared to genuinely care about the disadvantaged in America.  Did she actually?  How the hell would I know?  Is that unfair that enough voters doubted her authenticity?  Sure, but I think it was unfair that Romney suffered the same problem.  Her job as a politician - and specifically a Democratic one - is to convince voters that she cares about their problems and that she'll be the one to improve their struggling situation.  She failed, pure and simple, and since that is the career she entered by choice, it's a pretty bad look for her to be making excuses.
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RINO Tom
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2018, 05:00:15 PM »

Let's also be clear that Bernie being a socialist also cost him votes.

It's almost like a Democrat who didn't have far left economic views but FOCUSED mostly on economic populism, especially in tone, would do quite well!
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