Sunday, April 12, 2015

Why Republicans Should Hope for a Clinton Nomination

The GOP field of candidates for the Republican nomination for President is robust and growing. On the other side, there seem to be two camps forming: pro-Hillary and anyone-other-than-Hillary. Republicans who want to secure the presidency in 2016 should be cheering Hillary on. She’s the best chance we have to win.

Today, she officially announced her candidacy. The natural tendency of Republicans would be to start the attacks, point out the flaws, question her character, and denounce her political effectiveness. We must fight this urge. We should want her to win the Democratic nominations. All of the attacks should be held until she has secured that spot.


She is an extremely weak candidate on nearly every level. Like Jeb Bush, her family history in politics will be seen as both a strength and a weakness, but in her case the weaknesses will be easier to exploit. While her husband was a popular president, he was viewed as the stronger leader between the two. Jeb Bush is being built up as both different and better than his brother and father, so the family attachment will not hurt him as much when it comes to independent voters.


Clinton has a history that will be easy to attack. Emails, Benghazi, her “hardships” after leaving the White House, and Brian Williamsesque storytelling are all things that will come back to haunt her once the real campaign begins as long as she can secure the nomination. Her political failures outweigh her victories. As First Lady, she accomplished less than any since Rosalynn Carter. As a Senator, she has had to defend and backtrack on more votes than any former Senator who ran for President. As Secretary of State, she accomplished next to nothing.


We’ve already been here. In 2007, the attacks against Clinton started rolling in from the right. We hit fast and we hit hard. We participated in getting her defeated in the primaries and making Barack Obama the nominee. We shot ourselves in the foot by replacing a weak candidate with a stronger one.


The thought of her being President is so obtuse that many Republicans will do whatever they can to stop her, even if that means putting a better candidate up against us. We must trust that just about any GOP candidate other than Jeb Bush can defeat her. In essence, we must hold our attacks until they can actually do some good.


Here’s her campaign launch video:



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