Mark Halperin is a Senior Political Analyst at Time Magazine, and a regular political analyst on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
He was just interviewed during the Today show, and asked his opinion of the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Here is what the usually Democrat-friendly Halperin had to say:
“It’s like the third snowstorm out of ten in Boston. It’s destructive, it’s distractive, and you know there’s more coming”
Does that sum it up nicely, or what?
But Mr. Halperin wasn’t through. He also pointed out – and this, to me, is the key issue – that the email scandal plays directly into the worst things that are said about Ms. Clinton: she is secretive about her activities, and plays by her own rules.
Another direct hit that is right on target.
And before you say “oh, come on, this is just another Republican hit job on Hillary and it is going to roll right off just like the other ones”:
-What about the possibility that there are damning emails regarding Benghazi: emails which make clear what so many of us already believe, which is that she has lied to our faces about the degree of readiness at that compound and how she handled the situation once the attack took place?
-And what about the possibility (and this is one I somewhat expect) that she will produce virtually no significant emails about Benghazi during that period? Who, besides the most unconditional Hillary supporters, will believe they weren’t scrubbed – and who, besides the most unconditional Hillary supporters, will not conclude that the reason they were scrubbed was that they were damaging to Her Royal Highness?
There is little doubt in Halperin’s mind – or mine – that Democrats are scared excrementless of this. Because if it brings Hillary Clinton down, what is their Plan B? Who runs if she doesn’t?
Remember last year when Democrats were snarking out that Republicans don’t have a candidate for 2016? You don’t hear much of that snark anymore, do you?
Think of it as a political offshoot of “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”.
