re: Fun Reading: Hit pieces on HRC campaign from NY Mag and Rolling Stone

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Because it's her turn

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That's a bad pretext for anyone to run on. The last person to do that was George H. W. Bush who was able to pull it off because he rode Reagan's coattails. By 1992 he was done because he could not articulate a vision or theme for his candidacy . Bill Clinton beat him, not because Bill was a great inspirational figure, but because Bill was a competent politician. If he would have run against an enthusiastic Republican candidate in 1992 he would have lost....same in 1996 against Dole ( who might have been the worst Presidential candidate in history) He (Dole) also ran because....it was his turn.

Hillary ran both times and the pretext was always ....it was her turn. She telegraphed it in 2008 and Obama came in and stole the nomination from her. She basically said as much in 2016 and Bernie took her to the end of the primary season and then Trump in the general outflanked her. There was no theme for her. Trump had a theme, Bernie had a theme. Hillary thought it was her due.