IF IT ENDS UP TRUMP VS HILLARY, TRUMP HAS SOME SERIOUS AMMO AGAINST CLINTON

…Will this be the final election choice?

 

If Hillary’s the one, it’s going to get nasty.

 

Because I have written so much against Donald Trump, many of my readers think I must be in total support of Hillary.

 

Actually, that is not the case, but it’s not that I don’t believe in much of what Hillary has proposed as her policies and the political or social ideas she supports.

 

My concern about Hillary is that she has some serious liabilities that whomever the nominee is, they could seriously go after her.  Trump has said how much he looks forward to running against Hillary, and how terrible a Secretary of State that Hillary was for her four years.   The problem is, that I can understand why he feels that way and am aware of what he has on his side.

 

Let’s look at how the competition could go after Hillary in one-on-one debates between Hillary and any Republican nominee.

 

First, if it’s Trump, he would take his comments about America not winning anymore and he would blame all those American losses starting on Bill Clinton’s watch.

 

He will blame the first serious American loss on Bill’s North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  He will emphasize that since then we’ve lost millions of jobs to Mexico and South America.  He will then add even more losses from Bill for giving China a “most-favored-nation” trade status.  (By-the-way, that was something that Bill had promised not to do in his 1992 election campaign.)

 

Then Trump will go after Bill’s last year in office when he made it so that China could join the World Trade Organization (WTO).  He will site these for the loss of 1.5 million jobs going overseas between 1990 and 2007.

 

Finally, he’ll site that it was Bill Clinton that signed away the Glass-Steagall agreement before he left office.  This agreement could have helped make the Great Recession of 2008 less devastating.

 

Yes, this is all Hillary's "guilt by association", but Trump will call Hillary, Bill’s strongest advisor and he won’t stop there.

 

Trump will then go after Hillary for supporting and voting for the invasion of Iraq and for voting to bail out the banks.  He will hit her up for her support of the Trans-Pacific Trade Proposal, long before she was against it.  And he won’t forget that she was the Sec. of State when the Libya disaster went bad.  He will remind us that she was involved when the US pulled out of Iraq too soon leaving Iraq to be run by the incompetent Shia leadership.  This of course, also allowed Iran to become Iraq’s best friend and the leading terrorist support nation in that region.  In other words, he will blame her for the total destabilization of the Middle East.

 

The problem is that Hillary Clinton, in her position with the past two Democratic administrations and by voting to invade Iraq, she has been involved in some of the most controversial policy decisions of both parties.

 

Hillary is by far, the most experienced and qualified person in the Democratic party for holding the office of US President.  But that does not take away that she has some serious potential liabilities that her competition can and will use against her.

 

It must also not be ignored that Trump is correct when he says that with his candidacy, there are more Republicans and Independents voting in his primary campaigns than has ever happened in the GOP.  And Hillary is so far, not drawing on the same size of crowds that came out to vote Democratic in 2008 and 2012 for Barack Obama.

 

I only hope that Hillary Clinton is prepared to deal with what will obviously be thrown at her, starting from the Republican convention, to the voting day on the first Tuesday in November 2016.

 

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