Hillary Clinton: The candidate of meh
"What difference does it make?" – Hillary Clinton discussing Benghazi, 2013
"We just wanted to get this thing over with and get on with it." – Clinton operative discussing her presidential announcement, 2015Hillary Clinton's campaign launch video (no big speech among the little people for her) seems at first like a commercial for Target. It ends up with a message about — what, exactly? That all these people who are getting on with their lives just fine somehow need Clinton to be their champion.
Her website is long on biographical information, short on policy positions. ThinkProgress actually proposed some "economic policies Hillary Clinton could use to energize voters," since Clinton currently has none of her own. The lede of that article actually states that "the country may soon learn what the former secretary of state's economic policy platform will be - and how it will align with what voters want."
Because so far, we know nothing about what priorities a President Hillary Clinton would have. She's the frontrunner without even having a message. The Republican presidential hopefuls who have announced so far at least have generic Republican platitudes about reducing the size of government and changing foreign and immigration policies. Another potential presidential contender, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is well known for her anti-big bank rhetoric. She actually stands for something.
We know where Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Warren stand on important issues. The same cannot be said of Clinton. Which leads to the bigger problem with her candidacy: Is it about anything more than her gender? Is identity politics the only thing that matters any more?Also read:
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