The Clintons, like most long-time politicians, are
used to playing hard ball politics, and part of the rules of the political game
is to find a “gotcha” to be used against your opponent, at which time he will
gracefully back down and concede defeat. It’s safer to play “gotcha” against
your opponent than to tell everyone what you stand for and why they should vote
for you, because that leaves a trail of promises, and politicians are liars who
hate such evidence of their dishonesty.
In 1990 the Clintons were a shiny pair of young
liberals obviously destined for the top, and the liberal press decided that
they would award them the Camelot slot that the Kennedy family formerly
occupied, and they began taking the Clinton side in nearly every issue. The
only exception was 2008 when the press sided with Barack Obama, who had, in
addition to being a good liberal, the benefit of politicking while black, and
race beats gender in the opinion of the liberal American press.
But Donald Trump has held on against the left’s
withering attacks, and has in fact gained on Hillary during the last year while
the revelations of crimes and corruption against Hillary are now sticking to her.
It may not be PC to say so, but Hillary has lost some of her old luster with
age, and she may have tried her luck and her lying just once too often with
this presidential run.
Hillary has simply tried to play the game too long and
has lost the physical ability to fight like she used to. And when you add to
the mix the fact that Americans are tired of the old establishment game that is
all she knows how to play, it appears she has cruised into a rocky beach and
the rocks are taking her to the bottom.
But the most galling thing eating at Hillary is that
she’s put in her time, and expectations have built to such an heady extent,
that to not be winning by a large margin at this point in the election is tying
her in knots; and her opponent is not even a politician, doesn’t know the rules
of the political game and refuses to play by them.
Hillary is being defeated at her own filthy game of
politics by a beginner, and that has to be eating at her and destroying even
her best day.
