Bitching about Huma Abedin’s timesheets while she worked at the State Department isn’t very interesting or consequential, although I guess I’d call it fair. I think it’s a small part of a greater strategy of death by mosquito bite.
Hillary Clinton is well known, and there aren’t going to be any screaming revelations of outrageous wrongdoing. But they’ll be able to chip away at her a little tiny bite at a time until there is a cumulative effect that shows up in her “trustworthy” and “cares about you” polling numbers.
It seems to be working fairly well already, as her numbers have come down considerably from their highs.
On the other hand, the right has so overplayed their hand in the past, accusing Hillary of murder for example, that she does enjoy some basic immunity on these types of things. I mean, when you go from accusing her of killing her lover Vince Foster to accusing her assistant of sneaking a paid vacation to Italy, you’re really dialed back your ambition.
So, all they’re really going for here is to create a little sleeze factor by raising a bunch of conflict of interest and nepotistic type of quid pro quo questions.
It’s kind a necessary exercise, but it’s not of much consequence, really. After all, the Clintons know how to turn this stuff to their advantage, and they’ll be hitting back just as hard at the eventual Republican nominee.
