Republican strategy: Attack Hillary Clinton for being 'a one-percenter'
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It looks like Republicans have decided what their main line of attack against candidate Hillary Clinton will be: She's too much like Mitt Romney. She's a rich person, and you can't trust rich people.
"She's admitted she hasn't driven a car for decades; she probably doesn't ever go into a coffee shop and talk to regular people unless it's for a staged photo-op," said American Crossroads CEO Steven Law, alluding to Clinton's portrayal in her campaign's launch video Sunday. "She really has lived the life of a one-percenter these last several years and it shows.
As opposed to the down-home, salt-of-the-earth Jeb Bush. I admit I'm eager to see this play out because rich people are the only Republican base still worth mentioning. (Yes, there's the Fox News demographic, but those ain't the people cutting the big checks.) Will they be offended? No, likely not; a Republican campaign built around bashing Clinton for having money, paid for by individual Republican contributors who have one hundred times as much money, is precisely the sort of perversion that makes our current campaigns tick. The only thing that would make it better would be if it was Mitt Romney's personal strategists pushing this agenda.
[Clinton] explained that she and Bill Clinton earned their millions "through dint of hard work."
"Who talks like that?" said GOP strategist Kevin Madden, who advised Romney's campaign in 2012. "Most Americans don't understand accumulating millions in wealth through speaking fees. Hillary Clinton has not driven a car in this century; how can she relate to the cost of gas? How can she relate to rising food prices when she doesn't shop for herself?"
Oh, Kevin. You came through for us. The proper way to accumulate wealth, of course, is to engineer hostile takeovers of companies and then gut their workforce. You know-America stuff. Charging money for to give speeches is just so ... uncouth.
We still seem to be skipping the step where the Republican primary candidates battle it out among each other. That would be a shame, but you can hardly blame them: An entire Republican infrastructure has been built (again) to combat (again) Hillary Clinton, and that infrastructure of cash-rich SuperPACs dwarfs whatever infrastructure the candidates themselves might have been able to muster. And, let's face it, none of the current Republican candidates are going to be their party's eventual nominee. Nobody's cutting ads attacking Rand Paul because there's no point in it.
by
Hunter .
.
It looks like Republicans have decided what their main line of attack against candidate Hillary Clinton will be: She's too much like Mitt Romney. She's a rich person, and you can't trust rich people.
"She's admitted she hasn't driven a car for decades; she probably doesn't ever go into a coffee shop and talk to regular people unless it's for a staged photo-op," said American Crossroads CEO Steven Law, alluding to Clinton's portrayal in her campaign's launch video Sunday. "She really has lived the life of a one-percenter these last several years and it shows.
As opposed to the down-home, salt-of-the-earth Jeb Bush. I admit I'm eager to see this play out because rich people are the only Republican base still worth mentioning. (Yes, there's the Fox News demographic, but those ain't the people cutting the big checks.) Will they be offended? No, likely not; a Republican campaign built around bashing Clinton for having money, paid for by individual Republican contributors who have one hundred times as much money, is precisely the sort of perversion that makes our current campaigns tick. The only thing that would make it better would be if it was Mitt Romney's personal strategists pushing this agenda.
[Clinton] explained that she and Bill Clinton earned their millions "through dint of hard work."
"Who talks like that?" said GOP strategist Kevin Madden, who advised Romney's campaign in 2012. "Most Americans don't understand accumulating millions in wealth through speaking fees. Hillary Clinton has not driven a car in this century; how can she relate to the cost of gas? How can she relate to rising food prices when she doesn't shop for herself?"
Oh, Kevin. You came through for us. The proper way to accumulate wealth, of course, is to engineer hostile takeovers of companies and then gut their workforce. You know-America stuff. Charging money for to give speeches is just so ... uncouth.
We still seem to be skipping the step where the Republican primary candidates battle it out among each other. That would be a shame, but you can hardly blame them: An entire Republican infrastructure has been built (again) to combat (again) Hillary Clinton, and that infrastructure of cash-rich SuperPACs dwarfs whatever infrastructure the candidates themselves might have been able to muster. And, let's face it, none of the current Republican candidates are going to be their party's eventual nominee. Nobody's cutting ads attacking Rand Paul because there's no point in it.
