The wicked witches are back baby
by digby
Run against the evil ones. You know who they are:
Republicans are running attack ads blasting Hillary Clinton as an out-of-touch elitist. Fox News prime time is blanketed with reports about Clinton investigations. Trump 2020 campaign rallies in key presidential swing states feature “lock her up!” chants.
If you follow campaign news, it may seem like the 2016 campaign never ended. And in at least one way for some Republicans, it hasn’t: The GOP has gone negative on Clinton for more than 25 years — and they don’t think her absence from the ballot is reason enough to stop now.
So far, at least three Republican candidates or groups have released ads over the past week slamming Clinton, in what amounts to an early midterms election-year beta test of her continued utility in firing up the conservative bas
“The Democrats want to take us back in another direction. Nancy Pelosi — I was there the last time she was speaker. I’m telling you, you don’t want to see that happen again,” Pence said, according to a person in the room.
“That was when they got Obamacare,” continued Pence, who served in Congress from 2001 to 2013. “They thought you grow an American economy by raising taxes and expanding regulation. They want to bring it all back.”
In the battle for the House, Republicans have made it clear they plan “put Nancy Pelosi on trial and prosecute the case,” as the leader of one major GOP super PAC told NBC News.
So some Democrats are ducking out of the courtroom.
In Pelosi’s home state of California, arguably the central battleground for the House this year, a survey of 34 Democratic candidates by The Mercury News found only two willing to publicly commit to voting for Pelosi to be their leader if they make it to Congress next year.
The goal of the Republican attacks on Pelosi is both to mobilize the GOP base as well as to try to convince swing voters that the Democratic candidate, no matter how much they profess independence, will ultimately empower the San Francisco liberal who leads her party in the House.
Lock her up. Lock both of them up.
Obviously, this has nothing at all to do with sexism and misogyny. That goes without saying. It’s just that Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden aren’t trying to destroy the country the way these two harpies are. These two female Democrats just happen to be bringing the whole party down. It’s a shame.
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