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Monday, August 8, 2016

In Wake of StairGate, Anxious Nation Wonders -- Is Hillary Clinton Literally Unstable?

From Ace of Spades HQ:


It's not just mean-spiritedly attacking an older, frailer woman (though it is that too).

In the campaign of 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore made a great show of pushing their campaign bus out of the mud (all of this almost certainly planned in advance), to contrast their (relative) youth and vitality to the frail, aged Bob Dole.

I'm not sure if Donald Trump can capitalize. For one thing, he's slightly older than Clinton. For another, making such an attack requires letting other people make it: Clinton and Gore didn't shout out, "Hey, Bob Dole's old and gimpy." They instead staged a fake bus incident and let their media allies say it.

Trump does have one big media ally willing to take the message out there, though. Drudge:
2016: HILLARY CONQUERS THE STAIRS 2012: FALLS AT HOME, BLOOD CLOT 2011: FALLS BOARDING PLANE 2009: FALLS GOING TO WHITE HOUSE, BROKEN ELBOW
And Trump seems to be getting at the issue, noting that Hillary herself says she "short-circuited" her (dishonest) claim that Comey said she was truthful.
I have suspected for awhile that she is not in the best of health. Assuming it is being covered up, her media allies, otherwise known as Democratic operatives with Bylines, will willfully do their duty and protect her.

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