HILLARY CLINTON ON PAR TO DEFEAT TRUMP; GOP IMPLODES

HILLARY CLINTON ON PAR TO DEFEAT TRUMP;  THE GOP IMPLODES

A POLITICAL PARTY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CAN'T WIN GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Sources:  Salon.com, YouTube

Now that it's crystal clear most GOP establishment leaders have refused to embrace DONALD J TRUMP as their party nominee,  there is no way short of a miracle HILLARY CLINTON will lose in November.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

The GOP top brass is intentionally choosing to FAIL for Money and Power.

***** Letting Trump and the GOP self-destruct: Hillary and Democrats have the right strategy by laying low

Two weeks ago, I wrote that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats could not afford to take anything for granted this year. Clinton, I argued, is too conventional, too focus-grouped. 

Her fear of unscripted moments has hindered her ability to connect emotionally with voters.

 She’s an unnatural politician whose penchant for moderation is a vulnerability in this political climate.

To be fair, Clinton has been on the ugly end of Republican attacks for decades – a little guardedness is pardonable.

 But a play-it-safe approach seemed unnecessarily risky against an omnipresent juggernaut like Trump.

 The Republican nominee’s campaign depends upon free media. In many ways, what Trump says or does with his airtime is irrelevant – the point is to be seen and heard. 

He can lie and distort with impunity; his supporters don’t care and he dominates headlines all the same.

Palin's Resignation Possibly Linked To A Pending Criminal Investigation... More G.O.P. Scandals Brewing

The Daily Beast----

(Palin suddenly announces her resignation without prior notice? Hmmm something smells fishy here. What is she running from?)

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The suddenness of Sarah Palin’s resignation raises questions about whether a coming scandal caused her to leave office. Max Blumenthal looks at one possibility.

CNN and other major news outlets have reported that Sarah Palin has abruptly resigned as governor of Alaska. The suddenness of her announcement raises the question about whether Palin resigned to avert a major scandal. One logical place to start looking is the affair that has Alaska political circles buzzing: an alleged scandal centered around a building contractor, Spenard Building Supplies, with close ties to Palin and her husband, Todd.

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin's snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few "buddies," according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.

Prior to her sudden announcement, Palin gave every indication that she intended to complete her tenure as governor.

On July 1, Palin met with Alaska Senator Mark Begich to discuss funding for the missile-defense systems that would be stationed in Alaska. In May, Palin initiated a plan to circumvent the state legislature by introducing a ballot measure that would ban minors from receiving abortions without parental consent. She vowed to be the first to sign the measure event though it would not be certified until August 2010.

In a press conference today, Palin blamed the media for her demise. "You are naïve if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard," she declared, using a basketball metaphor to refer to the flood of critical stories published about her.

On July 1, CBS reported that a story authored by me and journalist David Neiwert for Salon.com in October 2008 about Palin's ties to a secessionist political party caused her deep personal distress, and provoked a rancorous series of exchanges with her campaign manager, Steve Schmidt. Coupled with a withering profile of Palin published in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, the new round of exposés may have been too much for Palin to stomach.

Palin may have resigned from politics altogether. According to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Palin "has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012." But those choices are dwindling at a surprisingly rapid pace.


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