Why do some conservatives continue to insist that Hillary Clinton belongs in prison? After numbers of investigations and millions of dollars spend, do conservatives believe that Hillary is that smart or that the GOP is that inept?
It’s fundraising and motivation.Fundraising: Hillary is hated like perhaps no other political figure in history. Vilified and demonized beyond belief. As such, she’s awesome at raising cash from the Republican base.Motivation: the GOP excels at tossing out red meat to the base. There’s no redder meat than Hillary. Putting her name out there stokes the fires like no one else.Do you think the GOP really cared about Benghazi? About her email servers? Of course f*****g not! These things became issues because she’s Hillary Clinton and people were all too eager to believe anything bad about her.So sure, it makes no sense that they’re still talking about her 18 months after the election — but that’s the thing about the GOP and the Orange Goblin. They Never Stop Campaigning and Hillary is, still, after all these years, their Number #1 Motivator.
How come Condilia Rice gets a bad rap, but Hillary Clinton is America's new presidential darling?
Why has Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War? Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is yucking it up and eyeing a presidential run in 2016? Do people forget HER support of the Iraq war? "In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." -- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
Should Hillary Clinton be in prison?
While I agree with Sierra Spaulding’s answer, there is one aspect of this question that I believe should continue to be discussed by every citizen in America. It’s an incredibly important question.Consider that during the Republican’s politically contrived scam of an investigation into the Benghazi scandal, Hillary Clinton voluntarily put herself under oath and testified to Congress about her emails. She made many statements under oath. And as a lawyer herself, an officer of the court, she knew the importance of that oath.In FBI Director James Comey’s later testimony to Congress, immediately after his dismissal of criminal conduct, he was asked, also under oath to Congress:Hillary Clinton said “I did not email classified material. There was no classified material.” Was that true?Director Comey replied, “There was classified material emailed.” He went on to explain that 110 emails were marked classified at the time they were sent or received by Secretary Clinton. 36 of them were Secret and 8 of them were Top Secret.Secretary Clinton said she used just one device [which she said was done for convenience, which was her justification of the server]. Was that true?Director Comey replied, “She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.” He went on to explain that most of those devices had been wiped or destroyed so they could not be examined by law enforcement.Secrertay Clinton said all work-related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?Director Comey replied, “No. We found work-related emails, thousands, that were not returned.”So, the question we must continue to ask is this. Does it matter when someone is able to lie under oath? If Hillary Clinton can lie under oath without being punished for it, then why should we not just do away with the requirement of swearing under oath? It no longer means anything, does it?President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath to Congress. He was impeached because testifying to Congress used to matter. The question we should ask ourselves, as Americans, is do we care any more whether a person is sworn under oath and lies? Is perjury no longer a crime?This is a discussion that must continue.
In the long run, would it have been better for the Republican Party if Hillary had won in 2016?
This is a good and insightful question!I think the answer is ‘no’, because it would have been worse for America had Hillary Clinton been elected.The way the parties are aligned now — it wasn’t always this way, but it is nowadays — that what’s “good for America” helps Rs and hurts Ds; and what’s “bad for America” helps Ds and hurts Rs. Trump is probably going to turn out pretty good for America — which helps Republicans and America generally. Hillary would have continued Obama policies and continued the inexorable march toward GLOBALISM, which is horrible for America — and horrible for the “globe”. Globalism is only good for the ruling class / uber-rich, it is VERY BAD for the non-rich individual everywhere.Progressivism is very harmful to the country because it is really just nihilism. Progressivism bashes Amercia, blames America, vilifies America, and it crushes free speech …and all the other civil rights we have enshrined in the Bill of Rights. It masquerades as civil rights but is the opposite of civil rights.Trump is truly an interesting character in american politics! This gets lost in all the noise and controversy. Trump’s populism and center-right politics is a really big deal. Before 1980 and after 1988, Republicans have been lurching further and further leftward; essentially becoming “progressive-lite” and “globalism-lite”.So, here comes Trump — not a conservative — but whose populist message has a lot in common with conservatism. Populism + Conservatism is a much better chemistry than the old Republican recipe of Progressive-lite-ism + Conservatism.I think we’re seeing the end of the Republican Party and the beginning of a realignment in both major parties. Arguably the Democrat Party is completely progressive/socialist now. Joe Manchin is the only real blue-dog left. Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman, and all of the old blue-dog democrats are extinct. Likewise, the Republican Party is deeply divided between the McConnell progressives and the Cruz/Gohmert-type Conservatives. Trump-ism / America-First-ism is a much better fit with conservatism than McConnell-ism