Hillary’s “Deplorables”
Yep. Hillary Clinton has just made a deplorable mistake — one that may prove fatal to her run for the White House.
By saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton has violated virtually every rule of campaigning. For one thing, she has denigrated not her opponent — but her opponent’s supporters.
That’s not good. But Clinton’s stupid act also violated another “rule” — never get in the way of your opponent’s bad week. And Trump was, indeed, in the midst of a very bad week — during which he both praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin and threatened to replace some American generals.
Clinton’s stupidity may well hurt her as much as Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remark during the 2012 campaign hurt him. You may recall that Romney told a crowd at a private fundraiser that 47 percent of voters would vote for Barack Obama no matter what — because they were “dependent on government.”
Yes, this is a lousy presidential campaign featuring two miserable candidates. And Clinton just made it worse.