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"MANUEL!!! GET ME OFF THIS DAMNED FLOOR, AND WATCH YOUR HANDS."

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note i said nomination, not election.

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why shouldn't wonkers make fun of ourselves?

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poor drunken Sister Peggy if only the people would listen to her it could have saved the pretty blue dress of a former virgin and we would know which magazines the wicked witch from Whitewater read

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I disagree. This way she can take every shot they have to fire and walk away. They will spend so much energy fighting her that when the actual candidate is announced they have nothing left - the actual candidate has whatever length of time the R's spend fighting Hillary to very carefully craft his/her message against the very arguments the R's have used.

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William Safire worked for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. If ever anyone knew about congenital liars...

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If that's what she is doing, she's shielding a field of young, untested candidates from endless gotcha pseudo journalistic crap so they have some space to formulate a team and talking points before the Less Stoopid Bush trash machine chews them up and compacts them before they even get started. She will also have some fat PAC monies to get them started in their fundraising. But of course, endless speculation on why everything she does is wrong and is totally going to murder everyone is totally the meme we should endlessly speculate about.

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Thank god Chris Christie and Jeb!! and Scott Walker and the rest of the GOP clown car don't have any scandals to worry about.

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Here's an interesting question - about Peggy Noonan, not Hillary Clinton:

Does Peggy Noonan

a) not actually read any current American newspapersb) not actually watch any current American television news programsc) not actually own a computerd) have a drug probleme) have amnesia and / or dementiaf) all of the above

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"some grubby Republican governor from nowhere."

At least someone's finally willing to talk about Scott Walker's terrible hygiene.

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Has Manuel returned from his Snowpocalypse wanderings that left Our Lady of the Gin-Besotted Peggy high and drier than her vagina at a CPAC after-hours gangbang? Oh joyous day!

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Madame Pegtop de Boodles is far too refeeened to specify to which grubby Republican governor she refers Grubby seems to small for Christie, too short for Scott and too unfocused for Walker. Is it a crack at the all-too-dusky Jindal, mayhaps? Surely it could not be the Halfterm Wonder? Ah, me, another little drinkypoo will help us to forget.

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Jeb.

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Hillary announced she would release her Email account, but if she releases it to the FOIA lawyers at the State Department to scrub and/or redact first, she could be into the final months of her first term at the White House before it becomes public. Four years of Secretary of State Emails intertwined with personal Email, is a lot. She travelled a lot, and volumes needed to be on the record to protect what she said and to whom. If she chose Email over telephone conversations, it will take half a dozen lawyers years to wade through everything. They should refuse to release it piecemeal. Incoming Emails from other countries may not be released, just her messages, which would make for some rather dull reading if she only releases her comments.

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yes.

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Face it. The Rethugligoons will never rest until they have avenged their man Millhouse I by actually running a Dem President out of office. They failed with Clinton and now they will take off against his wife as their cause. Every Dem president will face endless streams of gotcha because the Rethugs are now practically all programed to look for impeachment. Every time the Rethugs try and fail, it only amps up their angst level to over the top. Or like Dame Noonangreenfieldbanger, deeper into the gin.

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