Tag: Campaign 2016

Dems Prepared to Counter GOP Argument that Hillary Clinton is Too Old to Be President

Buck Banks

If Secretary Clinton runs, she’ll be the nominee — the first female nominee of either party. That breaks through the ‘old’ tagline that the Republican geniuses are cooking up because, if handled correctly, women of all ages will absolutely be inspired by that. I don’t recommend that be the totality of her message or platform, but there’s no way to hide that fact and it certainly shouldn’t be discounted.

— Democratic operative Stephanie Cuitter, countering the GOP’s early attempts to position Hillary Clinton as a tired relic of the past.

Republicans Kick off 2016 Presidential Campaign Today with Fox News Generated Hearings on Benghazi

Jon Ponder
Republican legal apparatchiks Toensing and DiGenova

Basically all you need to know about the Fox News-sponsored hearings on the Benghazi attacks scheduled for today is that two of the “whistleblowers” — Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of attacks, and Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine who is now the deputy coordinator for Operations in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau — are being represented, reportedly pro bono, by Victoria Toensing and Joe DiGenova, a husband and wife team of lawyers who are longstanding political apparatchiks for the Republican Party.

The role played by Toensing and DiGenova in the hearings is damning evidence, if any were needed, that the “scandal” around the terror attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last September is what it appears to be: a bogus political ploy fabricated by Fox News and its allies on the Hill intended to damage the Obama administration politically in the short term — perhaps opening the way to impeaching the president, as right-wing talk show host Mike Huckabee predicted it would yesterday — and, over the longer term, to weaken the prospective candidacy of Hillary Clinton should she decide to run in 2016.

The presence of Toensing and DiGenova is also likely a sign that all the high-powered nonpartisan attorneys in D.C. declined to take the case.

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Clinton the Clear Leader in 2016 Prez Race

Buck Banks

63%


Percentage of the Democratic primary vote Hillary Clinton would receive against potential rivals Joe Biden (12%) and Andrew Cuomo (3%), in a new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll that gives an early snapshot of the 2016 presidential primaries. For the Republicans, Marco Rubio leads at 18%, followed by Jeb Bush (16%), Chris Christie (14%) and Rick Santorum (9%).

Rubio’s ‘Shaky And Sweaty’ Performance Was the Worst GOP Rebuttal Since Gov. Jindal Channeled Kenneth the Page

Jon Ponder

In his rebuttal to Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio delivered the worst political performance on the national stage since, well, Oct. 3 — and the worst GOP rebuttal since Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal unintentionally imitated Kenneth the Page on “30 Rock” when he delivered the rebuttal to the president’s first address to Congress in February 2009.

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