How Hillary Clinton Could Win The White House by March

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How Hillary Clinton could win the

White House by March
Brett Arends
If Hillary Clinton and her allies are smart, theyll spend their $50
million-plus campaign warchest over the next few months making
sure Marco Rubio doesnt get the Republican nomination.
Theyll run ads in the primary states trashing the Florida senator
among conservatives cleverly hiding the source of the ads behind
secretive super PACs with conservative-sounding names.
Theyll encourage Democratic activists to cross over to GOP
primaries to support Rubios extremist opponents.
Hillary herself may even help out by making a couple of high-profile
speeches in which she praises Rubio for his moderation and
bipartisanship especially, she might say, on the subject of
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immigration. Nothing could hurt the young senator more with the
GOP base.
Obama could take him golfing.
Following this weeks Republican debate, it looks increasingly like
the race is down to three candidates: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz,
real-estate huckster Donald Trump and Rubio.
If the GOP goes ahead and picks Cruz or Trump, Hillary could
probably take the rest of 2016 off to work on her inauguration
speech. Both men are extremists, and are traveling with more
baggage than Kim Kardashian. The only people who think they are
remotely electable in a general election are the increasingly narrow
group of people who make up the Republican party base.
Were talking about people who think Benghazi is one of the top
three issues facing America.
Who think global warming is a sinister one-world plot to take
away our pickup trucks and make us all slaves.
And who think 300 million guns are making us all safe while
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5-year-old Syrian refugees are going to kill us.

The biggest single fact: While individuals rise and fall from poll to
poll, overall the four extremist candidates of Trump, Cruz, Rand
Paul and Ben Carson have been consistently sharing about 65% in
GOP polls.
Its hard to credit, but the party of Abraham Lincoln has apparently
become the party of Jefferson Davis. Angry white men of the
South, arise! (Yes, Carson, an evangelical Christian, is AfricanAmerican showing that even the most conservative coalitions can
evolve.)
Meanwhile, the party is losing millennials, professionals, the
college-educated, women and Hispanics by wide margins. Good
luck with that.
Rubio, on the other hand, could pose a serious challenge to Hillary.
Hes a young, telegenic Hispanic American. Her best chance to stop
him is now, not next fall.
Yeah, I know, people will say Im only writing this because Im part
of the fancy-pants, pointy-headed elitist East Coast liberal media
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and therefore cheering for Hillary.

That couldnt be further from the truth.
As a member of the media, I stand to gain the most if America elects
an extremist wacko who generates lots of news, most of it bad.
Trump would be the best. Under President Trump, no journalist
would want for a job, and no website for eyeballs at least until he
was impeached, America declared bankruptcy or nuclear war killed
us all. Failing Trump, any of the other GOP extremists would be just
fine. Among the Democrats, Bernie Sanders would be pretty good
for the news business too.
For journalists, Hillary Clinton would be a terrible president. It
would be four or eight years of guaranteed boredom unless she
divorced Bill, say, or had a fling with a male intern in the Oval
Office.
Yet, facts are facts. At this point, it seems almost certain its going to
be Clinton and Rubio. And if Hillary Clinton has smarts, shell make
sure it isnt Rubio.
Eight years ago, Rush Limbaugh and right-wing Republicans
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inserted themselves into the Democratic primary process by

launching Operation Chaos. Perhaps some Democrats may feel
its time to return the favor.
If pro-Clinton allies are smart, theyll create new secretive super
PACs with names like Patriots for American Values and Veterans
for American Families and Patriotic American Veterans for
American Family Values.
And then theyll swamp the airwaves in Iowa, New Hampshire,
South Carolina and elsewhere with ads trashing Marco Rubio
among conservatives.
Say hes soft on Hispanics, Muslims and other non-Aryans.
Say hes for amnesty.
Say hes a career politician whos never had a real job.
And take a leaf out of the New York Times preposterous stories and
say that hes fiscally irresponsible because he had to pay late fees on
his credit cards a couple of times. Oh, yeah, and he once leased a
Lexus with his own money.
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Theyll tie Rubios personal loans to the issue of the rocketing

national debt. If Marco Rubio cant even handle his own finances,
how can we trust him with Americas? No, it makes no sense, but
whats that got to do with anything?
Stay tuned.
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