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Hillary Clinton is likely to win the presidency in part because she is largely immune from attack for her past scandals. Put simply, people are tired of hearing about all the terrible and sleazy things she’s done in her life.

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Hillary has more skeletons in her closet than any other candidate on either side of the aisle. But unlike the scary unknown skeletons in the other candidates’ closets, Hillary’s skeletons are familiar, like old friends.

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Hillary understands this. Newsweek reported recently about opposition research into Hillary’s past, and noted:

If Clinton is worried about the new dirt-digging efforts, she isn’t showing it. When two much-anticipated biographies dropped into bookstores last week, her campaign dismissed them as “old news” and “cash for rehash.”

That will be her consistent response throughout the campaign — and it will likely work. Every candidate would love to be able to dismiss their political baggage with an airy wave of the hand, and a statement about the need to “move on” to the “real issues” facing the country. But this strategy is likely to prove particularly effective for Hillary, because people are just sick of hearing about these scandals.

That’s why Hillary is going to win. She’s the only candidate whose dirt is all old news.

I enjoyed this piece actually, and s/he's oh so very close to being correct too. Hillary Clinton is "immune from attack" for her past scandals, and has more visible "skeletons" than (m)any of the other candidates, but it's not that the public is fatigued with her scandals...

...it's that we're fatigued with the Right ginning this shit up since 1991.

Here's what I believe. I believe that the Right had nine years during the Bill Clinton campaign and presidency, plus this current political environment to make something stick. I believe that the Right had that period of time, plus a ridiculously well-funded Ken Starr investigation, plus right-wing radio, plus books and newspaper hit pieces, plus a wild-eyed air of desperation to bring Bill and Hillary down, and despite all of the time and all of these resources? Nothing stuck. If there was a smoking gun, Ken Starr and Rush Limbaugh didn't find it. If there are horns on her head, Jerry Falwell wasn't able to show his faithful where they were hiding.

We're not tired of Hillary's scandals, we're tired of the Right feigning indignation over Travelgate or White Water, but never making a good enough case to justify the bloviating desperate self-righteousness with which these accusations were amplified.

You've had nine plus years, plus all of the last seven, to prove to us why Hillary and Bill Clinton are who you want us to believe they are.

You failed.

Find something new to convict her in the press over, or admit that sometimes the propaganda machine just can't tar everyone you think you need to tar. Hillary Clinton is the most thoroughly vetted candidate we may have ever seen in a national election. The Right might want to try attacking her on her policies instead of her personal life for a change.

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