Clinton Campaign to Republican Donors: Hillary Shares Your Values

[imagine2015]

May 09, 2016
Clinton Campaign to Republican Donors: Hillary Shares Your Values
The Problem: It's True.
by Jake Johnson

Late last week, Politico reported that Clinton operatives have initiated efforts to "peel off establishment Republicans who might otherwise grudgingly support Trump," demonstrating their eagerness to win over big money donors previously wedded to the conservative establishment.

Specifically, Clinton supporters have been targeting the donor base of Jeb Bush, whose main super PAC raised a striking $121 million, much of it before the race for the Republican nomination began to heat up. We know how that ended.

In doing so, her campaign is signaling to Republican donors that, as Ben White puts it, Hillary "represents your values better than Trump."

So, after a campaign season in which she shifted leftward on several issues to counter the message of her more progressive opponent, Clinton is pivoting back to the center — and perhaps further rightward.

The instructive point here, though, is not that Clinton would profess to share the values of Republican donors in order to garner their support. Rather, it is that she really does share their values.

On various issues, as many commentators have observed, Clinton is well to the right of much of the mainstream Democratic Party — which is, itself, far to the right of the Democratic tradition represented by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Clinton is also a veritable hawk who seems, as Kevin Drum has observed, to not have learned anything from America's most recent interventions in the Middle East, from Iraq to Libya. It comes as no surprise, then, that she shamelessly touts the support of Henry Kissinger, Jack Keane, and other figures in America's interventionist foreign policy establishment.

Read the full article at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/09/clinton-campaign-republican-donors-hillary-shares-your-values

[msongs]

1. disingenuous baloney from the sanders campaing mouthpieces. she has said no such thing nt

[pmorlan1]

2. Her Actions Have Always

Spoken Louder Than Her Words.

[imagine2015]

6. Clinton shares their values and takes their money. You dispute that?

[ThePhilosopher04]

9. Bahahaahahahah. Bahhahahaahaha. Bahahahahaha. bahahahahah.

[jeff47]

10. So how much of a bonus does it pay to get the first reply?

With all the incredibly-poorly thought first replies from Clinton supporters over the past 6 months, I figure there has to be some sort of bonus structure in place.

Otherwise, you'd take the time to look at more than the headline and then shouting "NUH UH!!!!!!".

[morningfog]

3. "I take a back seat to no one..."

[betsuni]

5. Does a politician speaking at Liberty University in order to get votes mean he shares

their values? Why wouldn't politicians want all the money and votes they can get?

[imagine2015]

7. Bernie didn't get paid a quarter of a million bucks to speak at that venue.

Hillary would have demanded at least that much!

Her standard fee for addressing wealthy Wall Street and corporate benefactors.

[ThePhilosopher04]

11. Several notable differences.

1. The video and transcripts of Bernie's speech at Liberty are out there for all to see.

2. He was not paid to speak.

3. He went into the Lions Den and presented the liberal view of what it means to live a moral life.

Hillary isn't capable of delivering such a speech on liberal thought, especially to those who disagree with her. She simply cannot do it. Not to mention she wouldn't even attempt it without getting paid.

[Doctor_J]

8. All of her leftward pronouncements were lies, and should be called that

She is extremely conservative on the whole, to the extent that she any moral center at all.

[imagine2015]

13. Exactly

[AzDar]

12. K & R