9 Reasons to Reject Hillary; See 2016 Buzz, By DICK MORRIS
& EILEEN MCGANN, Published on TheDailyHillary.com on April 15, 2015
Here are nine reasons why electing Hillary Clinton as
president would be a mistake.
1. She is a hawk who will get us into another war. Clinton
is instinctively a hawk and is always very quick to urge the use of force. She
backed involvement in Iraq, Syria and Libya. By temperament, she has a bias
toward sharp, decisive action, is impatient with delay and terrified of
appearing weak. She likes to be the tough guy.
2. She tends to follow certain advisers slavishly, almost to
the exclusion of her own views. She has always had a guru to lead her. Bill
Clinton is the standby. But, at various times in her life, Hillary Clinton has
followed Webb Hubbell, Vince Foster, Mandy Grunwald, Ira Magaziner, Sandy
Berger, Sidney Blumenthal, Mark Penn and others.
She doesn't just take their advice, she adopts their method
of thinking and becomes completely dependent on them. They become her brain.
She will follow that person to the ends of the earth and only "wake
up" when she is shocked by an event like the loss of Congress in 1994 or
her defeat in 2008 to reconsider her devotion to the guru.
3. She has no knowledge of economics, nor much interest in
it. Economics has always been Bill Clinton's turf. The former first lady
neither knows much about it nor cares much. She has avoided studying it and has
no clear ideas or theories concerning it. She tends to feel that it is a
technocratic function best left to the experts, a view common to those reared
in the arrogance of the Keynesians of the '60s and '70s.
4. She has no deep sense of who she is. Hillary Clinton is
endlessly adaptable. She can be anyone she has to be. Many politicians adopt
protective coloration as a survival strategy. But Clinton does not just wear a
disguise. She has no anchor, no real sense of who she really is.
5. Her worldview is shaped by her grudges. Nobody has a
longer enemies list than Clinton, nor one kept so closely at hand. Slights are
never forgotten and usually trigger a childish silent treatment as punishment.
One can, for example, see her repeating President Obama's behavior toward
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu -- foreign policy by grudge.
6. Her fundraising has totally compromised her freedom of
action. Nobody is as bound to the status quo as Clinton, tied down by millions
of special-interest donations. Like Gulliver, these strings come from almost
every industry in every country in the world.
Many candidates take office owing a lot to their donors. But
this is different.
Bill and Hillary Clinton personally raised almost all the
donations. They were in on the deal, gave the appropriate speeches, made the
needed policy decisions and charmed the right people to get the money. So their
involvement with donors is greater than if they had worked only through
bundlers.
And much of the money went to them personally, not their
foundation or committees, making them that much more indebted.
7. She is paranoid and suspicious. Presidential historian
James David Barber defined presidents based, in part, on whether they enjoyed
serving. Bill Clinton did. Hillary Clinton will not. Her sense of enemies
closing in on her will overwhelm her. She will feel under siege, like Lyndon
Johnson, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover, making her dark, sullen, secretive
and surly.
8. She approved NSA wiretapping of foreign leaders. As
secretary of State, she had to be aware that the U.S. was wiretapping the
cellphones of foreign leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel. It is very hard to
suppose that we would tap the phone of one of our key allies without the
approval of the secretary of State.
9. Her contempt for the press is legendary and will lead to
more and more secrets. Can anyone disagree with this?
Electing Hillary Clinton would be a big mistake -- more
reasons to follow on the 2016 Buzz -- All The Latest News on the Candidates and
Issues.
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