And she really thinks she's going to be able to put over that risible fiction, too.
To get the most visceral picture of how profoundly Mrs. Clinton is drowning in self-delusion, let's replace every mention of the name "Clinton" with the name "Romney" and picture how the media would have reacted to these words:
[Mitt Romney] countered criticism that h[is] personal wealth undermines a populist campaign message focused on the economic problems of everyday Americans, saying on Monday that h[is] family fortune is "secondary" to most voters.
"I don't think Americans are against success," he told reporters in Concord, New Hampshire. "Those of us who do have opportunities ought to be doing more to help other people do the same."
Stop the tape. Coming from Governor Romney's lips four years ago, that would have been a gaffe to dwarf "the 47%" or "binders full of women". It would have ended his campaign then and there, once the media was through gamma-ray-bursting about it.
Now of course, the media isn't going to blister the Empress within an inch of her life. But it will make them curl their toes inside-out and wince like they had facial Touret's. And it will reinforce her Marie Antoinette-esque image in non-Donk voters' minds as a bigger phony than Godzilla's cell.
Let's do a quick recap, shall we?:
[Mrs.] Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made hundreds of millions of dollars since leaving the White House from paid speeches— a fortune that even she has struggled to explain. [emphasis added]
From corruption, influence-peddling, and selling U.S. foreign policy to the highest bidder. At least Governor Romney was creating wealth in order to amass his fortune.
Last year, she stumbled into a storm of political criticism after saying her family was "dead broke" at the end of her husband's second term. Though in deep debt due to legal fees from various controversies, [Mrs.] Clinton quickly moved the couple into the top 1% with her book sales and speaking fees.
Last month, the couple reported that they earned more than $30 million in speaking fees and book royalties since January 2014.
And there's the cosmic slush fund that is the $2 billion Clinton Foundation, and there was her slap at hedge fund managers in her campaign re-launch yesterday, seemingly oblivious to the fact their her own son-in-law is rather well-to-do member of that profession, and so on. The only thing more stupendous than the Clintons' greed and hypocrisy is Hillary's inability to sell it as being somehow "irrelevant" to her anti-wealth, anti-prosperity "populist" schtick:
In New Hampshire on Monday, [Mrs.] Clinton seemed more comfortable acknowledging her wealth, describing her family as "blessed." But she also highlighted her middle class roots, pointing out that both she and her husband had federal college loans to pay off.
So what? Mitt Romney didn't inherit his wealth, either. He did earn it, however, rather than trade off of surname (even though he had one with which to do so) and political positioning.
"What (voters) are interested in is who's going to fight for them," she said. "I want everybody to have the same opportunities that I had and my husband had."
Not everybody gets to the White House and spends the next quarter-century using it as an ATM. And we've seen anew over the past six and a half years what rich Marxist-Alinskyists "fighting for voters" looks like up-close. Most of us would prefer to simply be left the hell alone.
Governor Romney, the man who I suppose is what passes for an, or the, "party elder" in the GOP, was really enjoying himself this morning pointing out all of these things:
Hillary Clinton touched all the points she needed to in her Saturday campaign speech to keep her voting base intact, former GOP nominee Mitt Romney said Monday, but he also thinks her speech will leave people wondering if they can really trust her.
"Somehow, when you see her on a stage or when she comes into a room full of people, she is smiling with her mouth, but her eyes are saying 'Where's my latte?'" Romney said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program. "It doesn't suggest she believes everything she's saying."
[Mrs.] Clinton was also trying to sell a "populist message," Romney said, but she "makes in one hour a multiple of what the average American will make in a year. ... I think making populism the centerpiece of her campaign makes her particularly vulnerable to this kind of response."
Because she's incapable of deflecting it. She's going to be spending the next sixteen months and change dogged on a daily basis by scandal and gaffes and PR disasters and all the things that her husband never was because of his tactical political brilliance and Barack Obama never was because of his skin color. She has neither, just as she, accordingly, has no chance of winning next November.
But she'll go to the bitter end believing she does, and will.
And the irony is, all that money won't be anywhere close to adequate consolation or solace.
Exit question: Do you suppose that after the Ugly Dutchess crashes and burns next year, she'll finally divorce Mr. Bill's pecker-tracking ass?
UPDATE: So much for the re-launch:
A group of fourteen news organizations has issued a statement condemning the Hillary Clinton campaign for denying access to a pool reporter on Monday.
"We haven't yet had a clear explanation about why the pool reporter for today's events was denied access. But any attempt by the campaign to dictate who is in the pool is unacceptable. The pool is open to any reporter willing to take part," read the statement from news organizations including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, New York Daily News, Politico and Washington Journal.
David Martosko, U.S. political editor for the U.K.-based Daily Mail was the assigned pool reporter for Monday. He told Fox News Channel's The Kelly File Monday that the campaign said about midnight Sunday he would not be allowed to cover the campaign, but the pool members agreed that the campaign would not dictate who could be their pool reporter and Martosko showed up Monday morning anyway.
Conflicting reasons were given, he said, but some suspect the campaign didn't like unflattering coverage Martosko gave to [Mrs.] Clinton's Saturday campaign rally in New York City.
Not even forty-eight hours after hitting the campaign reset button, and the old Harridan has already managed to turn the media - her closest, most natural allies - unanimously against her. We really are witnessing history.
Exit question: How long until the re-re-launch?
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