GOP continues to hoard nuts.
There's something inherently creepy about the Republican obsession with Hillary Clinton. It's probably because any of us who were sentient during the original Clinton years remember well the froth and spittle of those times, when the Clinton family could be accused by conservative "news sources" of anything from dealing drugs to murdering staffers and it would all somehow make it into the actual news stream as something that allegedly once-intelligent people would nod credulously at, and we as a nation were finally and at long last forced into an awkward confirmation that Our Betters were not just not our betters, but actual Christ-on-a-cracker nitwits whose deep ideological stances and finally crafted word parades were flimsy fronts in front of a great wide industry of shameless con artists and unambiguous morons.
So every time a professional Republican partisan like Reince Priebus opens his gollumesque man-maw to opine on Hillary, it is a too-close reminder that no matter how intentionally shitty our press may be, it can always get worse.
That link that Teen Smeagol provides would be to a Washington Examiner piece that breathlessly reports on a GOP pollster releasing a survey that proclaims voters find Hillary Clinton to be too liberal. You would be forgiven for suspecting that it is meant as pithy response to a Bloomberg poll showing voters feel
more positively about Clinton than they do toward her theoretical Republican rivals.
Former first lady, senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would enter the presidential race with positive views of her past experience and personal traits, making her a formidable contender against lesser-known Republican rivals.
Greater numbers of Americans view her as a strong leader, who has a better vision for the future, shares their values, and empathizes with their concerns, according to a new Bloomberg Politics Poll. Among the Republicans tested against her, former Republican nominee Mitt Romney has the best name recognition and strengths to challenge her standing as this early stage in the 2016 race.
Here is a tip: It is 2014. Nobody is running yet. Nobody in the general public gives a damn yet. Release a poll asking voters which political figures look the most like which animal species of the Serengeti or if the candidates were all woodwind instruments, what woodwind instruments would they be—it is all the same crap. A good game for those among us who have already gotten bored One Sodding Month after the last national elections, but the rest of the country probably is wondering why we keep asking them these questions when the people they voted in
this time around haven't even moved into their offices yet. Patience, grasshoppers.
Meanwhile, presumed other-candidate (or at least it's cute he thinks so) Rand Paul is so very obsessed with bashing Hillary Clinton that he's now getting press stories written up specifically about how very obsessed he is with bashing Hillary Clinton. Do you know how hard you have to work at it to be singled out in the Republican Party for your constant obsession with Hillary Clinton?
Ye gods, this is going to be a long two years.