Hillary has earned the right to say whatever she damn well pleases about the 2016 election, Russia

[karynnj]

30. I do not see 5 prominent people saying this there - I see ONE -- Rth Marcus and her statement is

alluded to, not linked to. What I see is a very strong pundit, who I usually agree with saying that she should speak out. here is that paragraph.

Now, Lemieux has put paid to this latter nonsense, drawing on a strong column by David Faris in The Week, in which Faris points out that no previous recent presidential runner-up—Al Gore, John Kerry, or Mitt Romney—went away entirely quietly after they lost. (To which list Lemieux adds John McCain, while I would add the name of N. Leroy Gingrich, Definer of civilization's rules and Leader—perhaps—of the civilizing forces, who still has an honored place in our national political dialogue despite having run one of the most preposterous presidential campaigns in history.) But I would push Faris' argument even further, and I was inspired to do so by something said to my man Chuck Todd by Ruth Marcus, scourge of teenaged potty-mouths everywhere. Marcus turned Faris' analysis on its head, citing Gore and Kerry as examples of how to fade into the background and as role models for HRC, whom Marcus wishes would just shut up and stop ruining the cocktail hour. Knowing nods around the table

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