The Hillary papers have
now surfaced in The Washington Free Beacon,
a nonprofit online newspaper the senior editor of which is seasoned news reporter Bill Gertz. The Beacon, established in 2012, is a publication that is considerably
more trustworthy than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Just ask Stan
Greenberg, the husband of 3rd District U.S. Congresswoman Rosa
DeLauro.
Mr. Greenberg, pollster
to Democratic political stars, is the moneybags of the DeLauro political operation.
Mr. Greenberg and
Celinda Lake were in 1992 the chief pollsters for the Bill Clinton presidential
campaign. Around that time, they issued a confidential memo – an oxymoron in
the Washington Beltway sieve – the subject of which was “Research on Hillary
Clinton.”
The pollsters found
that people admired the strength of the Arkansas power couple, but there was a
caveat: “they also fear that only
someone too politically ambitious, too strong, and too ruthless could survive
such controversy so well. The survey concluded, “What voters find slick in Bill
Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary.”
The Greenberg memo
is but a drop is a fairly large bucket, according to the Beacon an archive “of
one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the
former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential
candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative.
“The papers of Diane
Blair, a political science professor Hillary Clinton described as her “closest
friend” before Blair’s death in 2000, record years of candid conversations with
the Clintons on issues ranging from single-payer health care to Monica
Lewinsky.”
This is what is
known in the Beltway sieve a campaign "bump in the road." The Clintons have
during their political progress survived a few bumps and grinds and semen
stained dresses, but the archive is large, like the toothsome mouth of a shark,
and the Clintons may be running out of wiggle room.
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