2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Private Server... Laugh it off. Nothing to see here... move along please! [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)It seems to me that the Republicans can and will go primarily after 3 points:
1) That classified information was routinely mishandled.
2) Hillary Clinton, just as the 1990s, is obsessively secretive going to lengths far beyond the norm to keep things secret.
3) She is likely covering up something and set things up from day one to do that. Here, the fact that 15 out of about 100 Blumenthal emails were not included and she had the machine wiped really leaves her open to attack.
I think many commenting on the Clintons having learned to deal with the RW are actually not looking at what they do closely. As you note in the bold, Clinton was impeached for what was really a cover up. Hillary could have easily learned from that and simply been as honest and transparent as possible. The argument that she did not want to deal with two devices is silly and it is incredibly unlikely to be the reason.
I suspect that just as in the 1990s when, per the now famous Sid Blumenthal's Clinton era book, she was the one who was against just putting out every detail they had on Whitewater and killing the issue. (He writes of her being extremely angry after several Democrats, including Moynihan, Kerry and Bradley - some former prosecutors recommending that.)
What I don't get is why the Clintons never saw the possibility of having this arrangement actually made them more vulnerable - not less.