There’s something deeply off-putting about the way that Roger Simon goes about telling Hillary Clinton all the things she needs to do. And none of it is true. For example, Hillary doesn’t have to announce her candidacy any time soon. She might want to, but she might not want to. There are downsides to every equation. But the basic takeaway from Simon’s piece is that Simon needs to shut the hell up.
Hillary needs to announce for the presidency. Soon. The media have moved from Hillary fatigue to Hillary exhaustion, and this is not helping her.
She needs to make her announcement speech in front of a live audience, not on videotape like last time or even on IMAX 3D. She must continue to make many more speeches for many more months — all for free.
The whole thing is sub-mental, but just consider the two ideas expressed above.
Premise: The idea of a Hillary candidacy/presidency is exhausting to the media.
Conclusion: Hillary should start campaigning immediately so the media can have something to cover.
Premise: Hillary needs to make lots and lots of speeches and not take any money for them.
Conclusion: Roger Simon gets paid for writing pretty much whatever.
This isn’t logical thinking on any level. It is wankery.
They could use the time they waste stalking Hillary to explain public policy and recent mid term election strategies. They can talk about the coming challenges. They’ll have their damn ratings and before you know it, the 2016 election season will be here and all of the candidates will have to talk about public policy and how the candidates plan on dealing with the coming challenges. There won’t be time for nonsense because the seriousness of our situation will keep everyone honest.
Consider the source. Piling on Obama is getting old. They need a new victim.
So Hillary Clinton is going to make people less tired of talking and/or hearing about her by starting her campaign almost two years before the election. Uh huh.
If the Racists want her to run, then maybe that’s a good reason not to.
So, on the hidden gravy train, how much does Simon get for sticking his neck out for this obvious forced meme which we will see creep up from here on out? This is a plot to get Hillary either all in (when attacks can more formally begin) or out (for which she will be forever beholden to because I dunno, Democrats aren’t allowed to change their mind or something).
Well, this country elects based on personalities rather than policy, and the last thing the libruuuul media wants to do is point out how awful and deranged our newly-elected fascists are.
So, this makes perfect sense coming from the libruuuul media, because it’s all horserace, all the time.
Policy is boring. They need to discuss irrelevant personality information, otherwise the rabble are going to figure out that the media has been bought and has stayed bought.
Unless I missed something, Roger Simon doesn’t support Hillary’s candidacy, so I don’t see why she or anybody needs to pay any attention to his advice (except like Boo to demonstrate that it’s full of shit). A concern troll sometimes sounds intelligent, but he’s still just a troll.