You never, ever vote for a Democrat if you want a financial conservative.
Just because she sold her soul to Wall Street to make $200,000 "speeches" doesn't mean she's a financial conservative. She just needs to take care of those who took care of her, which is even worse than a financial liberal who at least is going to attempt their version of fairness.
In fact, Hillary has already proposed the usual leftist "soak the rich" tax increases, in order to pacify the Bernie bots into believing she's progressive.
Therein lies a lot of the problem. Even if Hillary believes in more conservative financial principles deep down (which I don't believe anyway), opportunistic political Hillary is going to take over and do the opposite. She has to pacify the Bernie bots to think that she's respecting their progressive values (and thus representing them), so they get off her case and stop causing dissent within her own party. She's already planning upon attempting to have a unified Democratic Party by the time she runs again in 2020, so she can devote all of her energy to beating her next Republican challenger -- one who likely won't be an easy target like Trump.
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second off, shes game as fuck when it comes to foreign policy. she knows what can and cannot be accomplished behind the curtains, and her rolodex is probably best in slot.
I keep hearing things like this, but I've seen no evidence of it, especially from her time as Secretary of State.
This is the person who stated that the Benghazi attack was the result of a YouTube video. (Duck! I said "Benghazi"! Liberal outrage about to commence!)
Knowing how foreign policy works doesn't make you good at foreign policy, much like being a dealer in poker doesn't make you a good player.
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third off, shes been operating well above partisan circle jerking for years and that means shes going to be in a weird and potentially wonderful position to make equity considerations without getting into tit for tat House of Cards style negotiations that are intrinsically biased for/against parties.
Are you kidding me? Aside from her time in the Senate, she was never really in a position where she had to do any kind of bipartisan negotiation. And as Chris Christie famously said to Marco Rubio, being in the Senate isn't really a decision-making position.
It's not like she was a governor where she got both sides of the aisle to agree, allowing bipartisan laws to be passed. Hillary has no such experience uniting the two parties.
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lastly, i trust her judgement on getting moderate/progressive supreme court choices seated who arent going to try to 'reset the clock' back to those halcyon days of backroom abortions, bloody oppression, and trickle down honkey bullshit.
Ah... the old "repeal Roe v. Wade" scare tactic from the left.
Tell me... how come this didn't happen when the conservatives had a majority for so long?
Bloody oppression via the Supreme Court? Trickle down economics via the Supreme Court? Huh?
No, instead I'm looking forward to a liberal Supreme Court, so we can return to the days of 40 years ago where violent criminals are coddled and "rehabilitation" for society's monsters is stressed over punishment and getting them out of society.
You aren't from this country, but I remember those glory days of the '70s and '80s when serial child molesters were paroled after 5 years, armed-robbery murderers were paroled after 8, and life without the possibility of parole was ruled "cruel and unusual punishment".
I can't wait to see the new generation of liberals putting all kinds of new restrictions on police, returning to the days of "rehabilitating" the worst of the worst, and enabling so many digital "privacy" rights that we are unable to collect evidence to convict serious criminals who put forth even a modicum of effort to hide things properly. And you know... this will all take place while private industry collects so much data on us that they can literally tell us when we will take our next dump, yet somehow none of that will bother anyone, because it's not the government doing it.
I look forward to this brave new world.
Buckle up.
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