This is DU. This is DU on Hillary. Any questions?

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61. Oh Dear God, will he ever.

ANYBODY we put up will get criticism.

She's used to it, and probably by now she has a skin so thick you can't even cut it with a chain saw. She's had enemies for years who've thrown everything at her that they could think of, and nothing stuck, and nothing proved out, and nothing worked.

There's one other element in play here, too, in her favor. The shock value of "nailing her" on some imaginary blown-up phony scandal or other has worn off. I suspect that a whole lot of potential voters have "investigation fatigue" with the Clintons by now. Simply BECAUSE of the fact that they've been investigated up the ying-yang by ken starr and darrell issa and this goudy guy and everybody else and all their monkeys uncles, and NOTHING turned up. NOTHING substantial EVER turned up. Not EVER. Hillary has even pointed out that she and Bill were the "most-investigated and MOST EXONERATED political couple" ever. All they were ever able to hope to nail her husband on, finally, after - what? 60 or 70 MILLION dollars spent on investigations and bribing and dirt-digging and "Arkansas Project-ing", was a stained blue dress. That's ALL they had, after years and multiple millions of dollars and tons of wasted taxpayer time and money and press ink and talk show time. That's ALL they had. Which, in the final analysis, was pretty doggone pathetic. Just frickin' EMBARRASSING. That's ALL they had!!! The whole "she murdered Vince Foster" thing didn't hold up even for three seconds. Monica Lewinsky and the stained blue dress - were the best they could come up with, after all that. PATHETIC. And of course they didn't get him impeached-and-removed. On the other hand, they made themselves look like prissy puritanical laughing-stocks obsessed with sex almost to the point of irrationality.

I think that left a little bit of a hangover in America. They'll try and scream and yell and stomp their little feet like tantrum-throwing three-year-olds yet again as Hillary proceeds (and hopefully prevails), and there'll just be an under-taste of "aw shit, THAT again?" And "THAT again" didn't gain them anything and never did get rid of him anyway, so "THAT again" is a strategy that failed MISERABLY. They'll haul that strategy out AGAIN, too, because it's all they've got, and it's boring, and it didn't work the last time, and it didn't draw any blood and it didn't get them what they wanted then, so it won't get them any farther this time. Of course, there WILL be voters who resonate with it and validate it, but they already weren't gonna vote for her anyway (so fuck 'em). I suspect a lot of other voters will just tune that out, because it's old and boring and stupid and it tends to bring out voters who themselves are perceived as old and boring and stupid - so it thereby becomes completely irrelevant and utterly dismissible. Even a turn-off to whatever it is they're trying desperately to sell to America by wooden-headed sex-obsessed operatives from that other side of the aisle.

So I'd almost say - "GO AHEAD! Knock yerselves out! Please proceed, governors."