What?:
Last night [Mrs.] Clinton told host John Ralston, “We have to have a candid national conversation about race, and about discrimination, prejudice, hatred.
Interesting that she's zeroing in on Dylann Roof's racism rather than the gun control angle.
The people who do this kind of dastardly, horrible act are a very small percentage.
But they're not responsible for their own actions, oh no. The ones responsible are....the ones that the Ugly Dutchess needs to smear to get herself elected.
But unfortunately public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger people who is less than stable to do something like this.”
IOW, the Gabby Giffords/Tuscon shooting saga all over again wherein somehow Jared Loughner was absolved of personal responsibility for his actions and they became the vicarious fault of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin's crosshair ads. Or, more pertinently to Hillary, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that her husband used to smear the GOP and regain both his political "relevance" and ensure his reelection the following year. Except, of course, that Mrs. Clinton has no relevance to regain, and she knows it, which explains this trademark sleazy demagoguery.
But still....why The Donald?
[Mrs.] Clinton continued, “I think we have to speak out against it. Like, for example, a recent entry into the Republican presidential campaign said some very inflammatory things about Mexicans. Everybody should stand up and say that’s not acceptable.
Trump didn't say anything about "Mexicans". He did say that we should build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. A rather tongue-in-cheeky humorous pipedream, but hardly "inflammatory".
You know you don’t talk like that on talk radio. You don't talk like that on the kind of political campaigns. I think he is emblematic.
i.e. "I want you to think he's emblematic, even though he didn't say what I'm accusing him of having said.
So I want people to understand, it’s not just him, it’s about everybody.
i.e. All Republicans are like the Trump I'm falsely depicting. Otherwise known as "share the smear".
The second thing is guns. Let’s just cut to the chase – it’s guns.”
Okay, she got around to gun-grabbing after all. But that still wasn't her emphasis, which is more than a little surprising.
I think the reason the Empress settled on Trump as her "vast rightwing conspiracy" avatar in this instance is because of the same factors about which I wrote the other day and which a lot of 'Pubbies are quickly realizing: His very egotistical, glory-hogging, buffoonish, turd-in-every-pocket persona is precisely what the Democrats need as the face of the Republican Party (aside from Dylann Roof), and they are not going to spare any effort to bludgeon home that association and depiction.
Trump, for his part, and just as Mrs. Clinton knew he would, fired right back:
"Wow, it's pretty pathetic that Hillary Clinton just blamed me for the horrendous attack that took place in South Carolina. This is why politicians are just no good. Our country's in trouble," he said in the short clip titled, "Hillary Clinton reaches new low."
And voila! Scott who? Ted who? Marco who? Rand who? Jeb who (a surname which would get him more votes than "Bush")? Suddenly the 2016 election is Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump - precisely as she'd like it to be, since he's the only other Republican (or "Republican") besides Jeb Bush that she actually has a chance of defeating.
I guess desperation can inspire lonely flashes of brilliance after all.
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