Sacrificing any real chance she has in next year's general election in a desperate attempt to hold on to her chances of winning the Democrat nomination, in essence. But given the rate at which her poll numbers are crashing, and with Berniemania and the "Draft Biden" movement popping up and highlighting how much the Democrat base wants out of the Hillary Trap, she really doesn't have much of a choice in the matter:
Hillary Clinton’s free-falling public image poll numbers have impelled the often rigid and robotic presumed Democrat nominee to adopt a more aggressive tack, according to the Washington Post.
The former secretary of state’s new posture, according to the Post, has included "almost daily attacks on the better-known contenders among the wide Republican field," the "surprise release of her health and tax information late last month on the same day as a very public airing — in the home state of [former Florida Governor] Bush and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) — of her policy reversal on U.S. relations with Cuba," and "a preemptive spin campaign" ahead of the first GOP debate.
Just before the "happy hour" debate kicked off at 5 p.m. Thursday, [Mrs.] Clinton blasted a needling message on Twitter, one that embodied the tone of her new demeanor.
Wrote [Mrs.] Clinton in a Twitter message typical of her recent postings:
“Republicans are systematically...trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of?”—HRC
The "elbows-out approach" by the "no-false-moves" candidate is designed to counter critics within her party that "despite posturing as a fighter, she has rarely taken the gloves off," the Post reports.
She’s also been forced to take more risks as a result of the unforeseen popularity of [communist] Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and rumblings that Vice President Joe Biden may get into the race.
Not that her "fighter" gimmick will be any more credible for her sudden promiscuous indulgence in it than it was for her in her previous imperious complacency, just as her immense wealth purloined from every corrupt, influence-peddling source imaginable makes the notion of her posing as the champion of the middle class that she exited decades ago beyond laughable. But again, she has to do something, and getting more obnoxious (see the above tweet again) is pretty much her only option:
A recent NBC-Wall Street Journal poll found that [Mrs.] Clinton’s favorability rating dropped to 37%, from 44%, between June and July, according to the Post, while other surveys saw [Mrs.] Clinton’s lead over Sanders' diminishing.
A June piece by the Post reported on the results of a Post-ABC poll that found [Mrs.] Clinton’s favorability ratings had fallen to their lowest since April 2008, when she first ran for president.
The poll found that 52% of Americans said [Mrs.] Clinton is not trustworthy, "a twenty-two-point swing in the past year," according to the Post, which noted that Clinton support from both independents and Democrats had diminished.
This corresponds to her greater visibility, which always drives down her poll numbers. In essence, there's the abstract idea of Hillary Clinton, and then there's the reality. And most people can't stand the latter.
And so, her nuclear scorched-earth campaign has begun, as it was always going to. She's just having to start it a lot earlier than she had anticipated.
And, of course, there is a cost to it:
In July, the Hill reported on a Quinnipiac University survey of voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia. The results were staggering.
When tested against leading Republican contenders — Florida Senator Marco Rubio, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker — [Mrs.] Clinton lost every state to every opponent.
Hillary simply does not have the political ability to "tack left" in the primary and "tack to the center" in the general. But doing the former now is the only way she can even make it to the latter, where her leftwingnut pandering will help doom her chances.
But, to employ a football metaphor, if you don't win the championship game, you won't play in the Super Bowl. No matter how big a blowout it runs out to be.
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