Bashing Hillary Clinton won't help GOP win in 2016

Former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey leaves federal court in Washington on March 10,...

Kathleen Willey is back. For people who have forgotten, she was a volunteer aide to former President Clinton who claims he sexually harassed her 20 years ago. She wrote a book about it called Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

What, you say you didnt read it? Neither, it seems, did most of America, which long ago yawned at Bill Clintons exploits and Hillarys apparent enabling of his extramarital liaisons.

Willey is telling anyone who will listen that Hillary Clinton is the war on women because of the way she treated her and the other women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. Remember bimbo eruptions, a term coined by Clinton aide Betsey Wright, who was charged with monitoring them and then discrediting accusers?

On WABC's "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" show (as reported on the conservative website WND.com), Willey said this about Hillary Clinton: The point is what this woman is capable of doing to other women while she's running a campaign basically on women's issues. ... She singlehandedly orchestrated every one of the investigations of all these women [who accused her husband of sexual crimes]. They're the people reminding us of how sordid this all is.

Willey vowed to go back to all the sordid details if Hillary Clinton runs in 2016.

Is this strategy likely to sway many, if any, female votes? I doubt it. People long ago made their judgments on the Clintons and decided his (and her) behavior about infidelity was a private matter. Besides, the rules such as they are about most matters involving sex, at least for some liberals, are even looser now than they were 20 years ago.

If conservatives and Republicans think resurrecting this old news will bring them electoral victory against Hillary Clinton, should she decide to run, they are mistaken. Dredging up the past may help them raise money, but it wont raise Republican votes. In fact, such a strategy could backfire as Mrs. Clinton would again be portrayed as a victim by a sympathetic media. Having forgiven her husband, those mean Republicans want to assault her again.

Republicans have a lot of problems, but chief among them is that they are known more for what they are against. They hate President Obama, Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Some Republicans don't even like each other. What and who do they like? What are they for? Where are examples of their policies working -- creating jobs, improving lives, lowering deficits and taxes, cutting spending and reducing the size and reach of government? (Hint: States have the answer, not Washington.)

The number of electoral votes needed to win a presidential election is 270. Electoral votes for Republican presidential candidates have steadily declined since Ronald Reagan's impressive 1984 victory over Walter Mondale. In that blowout election, Reagan carried 49 out of the 50 states and received a record 525 electoral votes out of a possible 538. It's been downhill for Republicans ever since.

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Bashing Hillary Clinton won't help GOP win in 2016

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