Liz Mair leaks what is probably a widespread Republican sentiment

You can read all of Liz Mair's Daily Beast piece, but its title pretty much says it all:

You Deserve Hillary’s Bloodless, Condescending Campaign: An increasingly shallow and risk-averse America gets the most shallow and risk-averse candidate imaginable.

Upon amendment, depressingly true: It's not just Hillary with the "mostest." Mair's former boss for one day, Scott Walker, sacked her — the now Daily Beasty and erstwhile Republican "digital strategist" — after a risk-averse attack of fearing offended Iowans. Walker's countless competitors in the GOP race are similarly going out of their way to be magnificently inoffensive to anyone but confirmed enemies. As far as shallowness goes, Mair's former boss and his countless competitors have a lock on that.

Should you choose to read Mair's entire piece, you'll find it bookended with this interesting tidbit: "[Hillary] may ... be exactly what we deserve." Why do I call that interesting? It reads like partisan resignation; as though Republican strategist Liz Mair is pondering not just candidate Clinton, but President Clinton — from whom there is no escape.

From a GOP operative I expect more spunk, no matter how artificial.

 

Comments

[Peter G]

What are we on? Is it day three or four of the campaign. It's been a week? Jesus. The most sublimely unaware sentence in Mair's piece has got to be: Not that this will stop the whining. This morning I watched as a spunky young reporter on Morning Joe whined about shouting out a question to Hillary's passing campaign and not even being acknowledged (Along with the other fifty reporters also shouting out their own questions. ) Furthermore the evil wench Hillary with her artificially constructed meetings didn't even slow down to meet the people gathered there. Which, she also noted, included grandmothers in wheelchairs. She did not say whether they were holding warm apple pies or not. This, she asserted, exposes a fundamental problem with Hillary's controlled campaign and that makes her a phony.

No thinks I, what it exposes is the essential phoniness of journalists. What that journalist really wanted was an exclusive interview that she wasn't going to get or to win the lottery and be present when Hillary Clinton was assassinated stepping out of a vehicle into an unvetted and unsecured crowd. And everyone single journalist present in that scrum would have rolled those wheelchair bound grandmothers into heavy traffic for a ringside view.

To be quite honest I am quite surprised that President Obama hasn't had to endure a close range attempt and not just rifle bullets fired at the White House. I was very uneasy during the last campaign. And I am uneasy now. Clinton's campaign is free to be as controlled as they like about who gets in striking range in my opinion. Just as every Republican candidate should be. Spontaneous glad handing in crowds must be a rare and unpredictable thing and it will always be risky.

[shsavage]

Exactly so. All you have to do is ask Gabby Giffords, Peter.

[Melissa]

I'm not so sure Hillary is such a shoe-in....she gives the impression of being under some hypnotic state or sleepwalking-- or rather sleeptalking.. The woman is on automatic pilot... She has been drained of anything resembling passion, belief or conviction.. She has become a female Al Gore or worse.. Gore at least had his green causes and his alien internet conspiracies... Or whatever.. Hillary is frighteningly lifeless.... Jeb Bush-- whatever one may think of him or his party-- is a good politician and can speak Spanish... Politics is not rational.. It is very much a gut business-- if Hillary can not connect with voters then they will default to someone whom they can have a beer with,,, where have I seen this movie before?