David Brooks, "The Roosevelt Approach": A "Dear Hillary, Jeb, Marco and John" Letter? What About Joe?

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Declaring in a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Roosevelt Approach" that "Sanders is uninhibited by the constraints of reality" and "Trump speaks from the id, not from any policy paper," David Brooks would have Hillary, Jeb, Marco and John adopt the "neighborliness" of FDR and Ike in combating these outliers. Brooks begins:

"You all find yourselves running against a whirlwind. Hillary, for you the whirlwind is Bernie Sanders. For the rest of you it’s Donald Trump.

Either way, you’re running against a candidate who generates passionate intensity. At some level those candidates’ followers must know that there’s something wildly impractical about the candidacy they are fervently supporting. Trump has no actual policies and Sanders has little chance of getting his passed.

And yet the supporters don’t care. Sanders and Trump make them feel known. Finally, somebody is saying what they feel. Finally, somebody is outraged by the things that outrage them. There’s a deep passion embedded in the Trump and Sanders phenomena, arousing energy, magical thinking and some suspension of disbelief.

And the rest of you are basically asking voters to snap out of it. All of you, but especially you, Hillary, are asking voters to calm down and be pragmatic: Consider electability!"

Stop right there, David! I'm no fan of Sanders or Trump, but you would have us believe that Hillary is running against a "whirlwind" in the form of Sanders? Rubbish! Hillary is running against herself: her greed (charging up to $300,000 to speak at public universities), her entitlement (jeopardizing the security of the US by installing a home email server), her lies ("I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material."), and her hypocrisy ("Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported," except when a woman claims "I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.").

"Electability"? Hillary is not electable.

Brooks's conclusion:

"The candidate who has the audacity to change the emotional tone of this whole election will win the White House and have a shot at rebinding the civic fabric of this nation."

Indeed, Hillary needs to "change the emotional tone of this whole election" by dropping her bid for the presidency and allowing Joe Biden to run in her stead. She will be doing the United States, the Democratic Party and women a favor, and might even redeem herself in the eyes of many Americans. Will she withdraw from the race? Not a chance, unless the FBI recommends her indictment, but then it will be too late for her and for the nation.

Nicholas Kristof, "Clinton, Trump and Sexism": "Skirting the Issue" of Juanita Broaddrick

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"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73….it never goes away."

- Juanita Broaddrick, Tweet, January 6, 2016

In his latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Clinton, Trump and Sexism," Nicholas Kristof writes:

"FOR most of her career, Hillary Clinton suffered for being a feminist.

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So it’s a measure of how much the country has changed that these days Clinton is running as a feminist, after decades of skirting the issue."

After decades of "skirting the issue"? Oh really? Excuse me, Nicholas, but how does one entertain the issue of Hillary's feminist credentials without reference to Juanita Broaddrick?

Moreover, how do you applaud Hillary's feminism without reference to the millions of dollars that her foundation received from Muslim countries guilty of abominations against women?

Bottom line, Kristof has successfully taken hypocrisy to the stratosphere.

Gail Collins, "Coming to Terms with Donald": Failure to Indict Hillary Would Be an Indictment of the US Criminal Justice System

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Gail Collins concludes her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Coming to Terms with Donald," by observing:

"In one way, Trump’s campaign pitch is a little like Hillary Clinton’s. She’s less about a new vision than about the ability to take care of the government, wring some long-awaited changes out of Congress and handle foreign affairs. His is about getting things done through the miracle of genius negotiating. ('We’ve got to get things done folks, O.K.? Believe me, don’t worry. We’re going to make such great deals.')

Really, they’re very similar in that sense. Except that she’s been a senator and secretary of state, and he’s got his name on a ton of golf courses.

We live in strange times, people. Strange times."

Indeed, I cannot bring myself to imagine Trump as the Republican presidential candidate. On the other hand, the thought of Hillary as the Democratic candidate is equally repulsive.

Yes, Hillary was a senator and a secretary of state. Care to tell us about her accomplishments, Gail?

She is also the "wife" of Bill (let's not inquire into the details of that marital arrangement), and earlier this month, Juanita Broaddrick tweeted:

"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73….it never goes away."

Is Hillary indeed an "enabler" of a sexual predator?

In addition, there are all those millions of dollars that her foundation received from Muslim countries guilty of abominations against women and from banks guilty of conspiring to undertake currency manipulation.

And last but not least, I expect she will be indicted for the data received and stored in her home server. Failure to indict Hillary would amount to an indictment of the American criminal justice system.

Strange times indeed.

Maureen Dowd, "Leo, Hillary and Their Bears": Time for Hillary to Foot the Bill

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Maureen Dowd has yet to appreciate Hillary Clinton's finer points, whatever they may be.

After more than a month's absence from the op-ed page, Maureen Dowd is back today with a New York Times opinion piece entitled "Leo, Hillary and Their Bears." Referring to recent references by Trump to "the Clintons’ tangled conjugal life," Dowd goes on to say of the Donald:

"[H]e’s wielding his knife on her most sensitive pressure point: her hypocrisy in running as a feminist icon when she was part of political operations that smeared women who told the truth about Bill’s transgressions.

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[H]e knows that a retrospective of the Clintons’ cynical campaigns against 'bimbo eruptions' will not play well in a politically correct society sensitized by epidemics of rape in colleges and the military and by the Cosby effect.

Bill hid behind the skirts of feminists — including his wife and esteemed women in his cabinet — when he got caught playing around. And feminists, eager to protect his progressive agenda on women, allowed the women swirling around Bill to become collateral damage, torched as trailer trash or erotomaniacs."

Indeed, Hillary has a problem. Pretending that women's rights are at the center of her agenda, notwithstanding the receipt of millions of dollars of donations to the Clinton Foundation from Saudi Arabia which is none too friendly to females who have been gang raped, she tweeted on November 22, 2015:

"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported."

And in a blast from the past, Juanita Broaddrick tweeted on January 6, 2016:

"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away."

Apparently, it's also never going to go away for Hillary, despite the connivance of many progressive media outlets, which cannot bring themselves to examine the unorthodox rules underlying the Clintons' union. The end, i.e. Hillary as Commander-in-Chief as a happy sequel to the administration of the Philanderer-in-Chief, justifies the means, doesn't it boys and girls?

Gail Collins, "Wanted: Straight Shooters": Is Bill Clinton a Sexual Predator?

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Observing in her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Wanted: Straight Shooters" that "The current presidential campaign, as you may have noticed, is all about fear and terror," Gail Collins would have us know:

"If every gun owner had to demonstrate the ability to handle a weapon, it wouldn’t necessarily stop anyone from eventually acquiring a gun. But it would take some time and trouble, which would cut down on casual sales. Paranoid maniacs aren’t likely to have the patience."

Fascinating. From January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 there were 2,986 shooting victims in Chicago. Does Gail honestly believe that those responsible for the vast majority of these shootings were licensed to carry a firearm? Does she honestly believe that those responsible for the vast majority of these shootings would honor legislation requiring firearms training?

Don't get me wrong: Firearms training is a good thing, and Lord knows I have spent hundreds of hours honing my skills. But is it going to stop the bad guys from obtaining (illegally) and using guns? Not a chance. How about some straight shooting, Ms. Collins?

But as long as we're on the topic of straight shooting, what if I ask you, Gail, a couple of questions? The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus recently had the courage to acknowledge that "Bill Clinton’s conduct toward women is far worse than any of the offensive things that Trump has said." Do you agree with this statement, Gail? And if so, why is Hillary still "married" to that man? Why is she allowing that man to campaign for her? And if elected, will that man accompany her to the White House?

In a January 6, 2016 Tweet, Juanita Broaddrick wrote:

"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away."

Broaddrick's Tweet followed Hillary Clinton's November 22, 2015 Tweet:

"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported."

As long as we're on the issue of violence against women, Gail, perhaps you would like to comment on the assault on numerous women in Cologne on New Year's Eve by 1,000 men, who, according to Cologne's police chief, appeared to be of "Arab or North African origin." The response of Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker:

"The women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things don’t happen again. This means, they should go out and have fun, but they need to be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves."

Ah yes, Cologne's women should read the guidelines to prepare themselves. Everything they need to know will be found in the manual.

Or, perhaps, when facing imminent gang rape, they would be better off having undergone intensive training at a shooting range . . .