The Manchester, New Hampshire Union Leader (whose editorial board favors the GOP, FWIW), has an interesting editorial on Hillary’s not-campaigning in Michigan and Florida (states that Democratic nomination contenders agreed to boycott, and which are supposed to have their delegates stripped from them):
COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to “campaign or participate” in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and is campaigning in Florida. Which proves, again, that Hillary Clinton is a liar.
Clinton kept her name on the Michigan ballot when others removed theirs, she campaigned this past weekend in Florida, and she is pushing to seat Michigan and Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention. The party stripped those states of delegates as punishment for moving up their primary dates.
“I will try to persuade my delegates to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida,” Clinton said last week, after the New Hampshire primaries and Iowa caucuses were safely over.
Clinton coldly and knowingly lied to New Hampshire and Iowa. Her promise was not a vague statement. It was a signed pledge with a clear and unequivocal meaning.
She signed it thinking that keeping the other candidates out of Michigan and Florida was to her advantage, but knowing she would break it if that proved beneficial later on. It did, and she did.
New Hampshire voters, you were played for suckers.
I’m not sure that I’d say that New Hampshire Voters were played for suckers.
I’d just remember that the Clinton family is the institution that brought us contortionistic interpretations of reality and weaselly statements, including my all-time favorite: “It depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.”
Listen, I think that Bill Clinton was a pretty good President, even if I wouldn’t leave my hypothetical daughter in the same room alone with the man. And, I don’t mean to deny, discount, or dismiss some of the really scuzzy things the GOP has done in recent years.
But why don’t I see some Dems remembering the scandals and the non-stop spinning that too place around Bill Clinton when they consider attempting to put another Clinton in the White House?