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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Hillary's Emails -- What there is to Worry About

Report: Hillary Clinton Exclusively Used Private Email While At State Dept. from Talking Points Memo
"Hillary Clinton may have violated federal regulations by exclusively using her personal email address to conduct business at the State Department, the New York Times reported Monday."
AH! Clinton deja vu all over again!! This is EXACTLY and PRECISELY what the Hoorah for Hillary crowd needs to be concerned about!  WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!?  How is it possible that she and her aids thought they could do this and not have it blow up in thier faces!?  Unless this story is completely meritless (who believes that?), if you are a GOP operative, this story writes itself: (1) demand all the personal emails from when she was Sec of State; (2) after prolonged hemming and hawing, Hillary will produce a subset of them; (3) the GOP (and the media) will demand ALL of them -- even as the already released subset contains emberassing revelations; (4) after "email-gate" knocks 10 points off her poll numbers and months of stalling and avoidance, the rest of the emails will be released, inflicting further damage on her candidacy; and, finally (5), the GOP will simply continue to accuse Hillary and Bill of still withholding, "not coming clean" and making the worst of whatever had already been released -- and, for the most part, what the Clintons say won't matter because their credibility will be shot.  Have we been here before?  You bet.  I actually think how Hillary deals with this is a HUGE test for her campaign.  Have the Clintons learned anything in the last fifteen years? - Nuggetsman

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