The system is indeed rigged

Voter fraud historically has not been a big issue in the United States, but what I call 'campaign fraud' is now an issue.

An additional WikiLeaks revelation show that Hillary Clinton's campaign got even more help in advance of CNN's primary town hall debates and was tipped off to the network's polling.

The emails that were hacked from Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta and sent to WikiLeaks originally showed then-CNN contributor Donna Brazile sending two debate questions to top Clinton aides. Brazile later became the DNC Interim Chairwoman.

Brazile denied the allegations of cheating on behalf of Hillary Clinton, but another email released yesterday (Monday) showed that she had forwarded at least two additional questions to Clinton's team to give her a leg up on her opponent, and to show herself what "Stronger Together" really means.

Trump's response was a bit of a non sequitur: "She got a lot of questions at the debate," he began. "I mean, if you were at West Point and you got questions like that, they would throw you out of the school if you didn't report yourself. She didn't report it . . . She took the questions. She got the answers.

"I mean she would've been thrown out of West Point or the Air Force Academy--and here we have her running for president," Trump said.

Another WikiLeaks email depicted Brazile detailing a question that would be posed by an audience member "with a rash" before a March 6th CNN debate in Michael Moore's town of Flint, Michigan.

Brazile's role as CNN contributor was suspended when she took over Debbie Wasserman Schultz's position as interim DNC head in July. However, on October 14, after the first emails were made public, CNN accepted her full resignation and the DNC didn't do anything but congratulate her.

Of course, Brazile lied to Fox News' Megyn Kelly and denied all wrongdoing with all the indignation she could muster. She said in an Oct. 11 statement: "As it pertains to the CNN Debates, I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did."

And Bill Clinton never had sex with "that woman."

 The Clinton News Network even received some DNC "brainstorming" questions for upcoming interviews of Republican presidential candidates.

"Wolf Blitzer is interviewing Trump on Tues ahead of his foreign policy address on Wed. Please send me thoughts by 10:30 AM tomorrow," Lauren Dillon, DNC research director wrote in late April.

It was apparent that CNN had direct contact with Dillon, but not with the RNC.

The same tactic was used in a Ted Cruz interview by CNN in which some of the questions were provided by the DNC. 

Dillon also wrote: "CNN is looking for questions. Please send some topical/interesting ones. Maybe a couple on Fiorina."

Trump is right when he says the system is rigged. We all knew that, but it's almost incredible just how rigged it is.


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Carly suspends her campaign but not her mission

Carly Fiorina has "suspended" her campaign for the presidency, and promises that this will not be the last we hear from her. I hope not--she is a magnificent debater and a highly intelligent person with a clear history of successes.

It was wrong of ABC to not include her in the last debate, but you know how those sexist liberals are--they like to say conservatives are old white men sexists, but we know the truth. Just look at who's running on their side and compare them to the GOP.

After low numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire, Carly did the honorable thing, and like Rand Paul, stepped aside to allow the GOP to better coalesce in this primary season.

She posted this on her Facebook page today: "This campaign was always about citizenship--taking back our community from a political class that only serves the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well connected. Election after election, the same empty promises are made and the same poll-tested stump speeches are given, but nothing changes. I've said throughout this campaign that I will not sit down and be quiet. I'm not going to start now. While I suspended my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them."

Whether you would have voted for Carly or not, you probably realize that her being shut out by the media was a disgusting move. She called it "an utter disgrace for our party and for our democracy."

Imagine if the GOP presidential nominee decides to put her into the VP slot on the ticket. That just might scare Hillary straight.

Nah--just kidding.


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Vets don't want to be politicized by Trump

Paul Reckehoff who heads the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America tweeted that his group hadn't heard from the Trump campaign and didn't know which organizations would be involved with the event Trump is to attend in lieu of the GOP debate scheduled for tonight. 

He tweeted: "If offered, @IAVA will decline donations from Trump's event. We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts."

The female GOP candidate, Carly Fiorina, said her campaign would donate $1.5 million to veteran's causes, if she can join a Trump-Cruz debate.

Trump has not made it clear precisely which veteran(s) group(s) would be included in tonight's event in Des Moines, and to many, it sounds as if he came up with the idea on the spur of the moment. But one thing seems clear, veterans don't want to be used as political pawns in a Trumpian showmanship ploy. Trump's campaign merely said that the "special event to benefit veterans organizations" would be held at Drake University in Des Moines.

Trump told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, "We're going to raise a lot of money for the veterans. A lot of money is going to be raised." He then made it clear that he would definitely not be attending the debate.

Some say Trump dodged the debate just like he dodged the draft in the Vietnam War era.

A recent tweet by Trump referred to Megyn Kelly, a Fox News debate moderator, as a "bimbo." In his book, The Art of the Deal, Trump has bragged about sleeping with some of the wives of the men with whom he had business deals. 

Some of these issues may come back to haunt in with the evangelical voters in Iowa.

But, as he said, he could shoot someone on the street and people would still vote for him. He may be right.

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Another CNBC vacuous moment

It looks like the neurologically challenged writers at CNBC are at it again with attacking the GOP presidential candidates. In a typically slanted hit piece entitled "College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates" the leftist network attempted to categorize the candidates as contestants on "Are You As Smart As A Fifth Grader."

The opening sentence read: In debates rife with confrontation and verbal barbs, there was one thing that wasn't a big surprise. Nobody was speaking above a high school level. (Italics are mine.) 

Then the writer pointed out: And at least one front-runner was in elementary school territory. (Again, my italics.)

The grade scores they gave to each GOP contender, according to speech patterns based on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test were:

Ted Cruz: 9.1;  Marco Rubio 7.9;  Dr. Ben Carson 7.9; 
Mike Huckabee 7.6;  Jeb Bush 7.3;  Chris Christie 7.1;
Dr. Rand Paul 7.1;  Carly Fiorina 7.0;  John Kasich 6.9;
Donald Trump 5.2.

They describe Donald Trump as "at the youngest end of the spectrum--averaging a fifth-grade level of vocabulary." They admit that this may be why he is polling so well and thus seem to be implying the GOP electorate isn't as smart as those incredibly intelligent liberals.

But this is called 'plain talk' and the kind of speech that everyone (not just highly articulate, morally superior, secular, vegan, granola munching liberals) can relate to.

The article was a put-down of conservatives. I hope you'll read it and see that it's true.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have the Mensa-level liberals, the ever scandalous Hillary Clinton comes to mind, and I thought it would be interesting to use the same readability scale on one of her speeches--something she prepared in writing and not off the cuff in a debate.

This is it in part:

Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much.

It is wonderful to be here with all of you.

To be in New York with my family, with so many friends, including many New Yorkers who gave me the honor of serving them in the Senate for eight years.

To be right across the water from the headquarters of the United Nations, where I represented our country many times.

To be here in this beautiful park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of America, the nation we want to be.

And in a place… with absolutely no ceilings.

You know, President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are a testament to our nation’s unmatched aspirations and a reminder of our unfinished work at home and abroad. His legacy lifted up a nation and inspired presidents who followed. One is the man I served as Secretary of State, Barack Obama, and another is my husband, Bill Clinton.

Two Democrats guided by the — Oh, that will make him so happy. They were and are two Democrats guided by the fundamental American belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.

President Roosevelt called on every American to do his or her part, and every American answered. He said there’s no mystery about what it takes to build a strong and prosperous America: “Equality of opportunity… Jobs for those who can work… Security for those who need it… The ending of special privilege for the few… The preservation of civil liberties for all… a wider and constantly rising standard of living.”

That still sounds good to me.

It’s America’s basic bargain. If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead. And when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too.

That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own.

It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton lace mill every day for 50 years.

It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped and saved, his small business printing drapery fabric in Chicago could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.

When President Clinton honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and the first time in decades we all grew together, with the bottom 20 percent of workers increasing their incomes by the same percentage as the top 5 percent.

When President Obama honored the bargain, we pulled back from the brink of Depression, saved the auto industry, provided health care to 16 million working people, and replaced the jobs we lost faster than after a financial crash.

But, it’s not 1941, or 1993, or even 2009. We face new challenges in our economy and our democracy.

We’re still working our way back from a crisis that happened because time-tested values were replaced by false promises.

Instead of an economy built by every American, for every American, we were told that if we let those at the top pay lower taxes and bend the rules, their success would trickle down to everyone else.

What happened?

Well, instead of a balanced budget with surpluses that could have eventually paid off our national debt, the Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other countries to pay for two wars, and family incomes dropped. You know where we ended up.

Except it wasn’t the end.

It scores a 7.9 on the Flesch-Readability test. But don't forget, this was a prepared speech with the opportunity to check and revise vocabulary. Hillary's words are no better than Ben Carson's unrehearsed statements.

So you can stick that so-called journalistic analysis into your nether regions, CNBC.

Oh, and by the way, I checked my own score (up to, but not including Hillary's speech) and it came to  10.9. 

Just sayin'.




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Hillary Clinton's emails may be recovered

It is possible that copies or logs of Hillary Clinton's emails are stored on servers of companies she used for her private email domain. If so, these additional emails would provide more information to hackers and they would also allow federal agencies investigating the former secretary of state's server to compare those records with what she turned over to the State Department in December.

Hillary said she handed over all work-related emails to State, but if you believe that, you might think that dark cloud above you is a gaggle of chickens coming home to roost.

The Daily Caller interviewed an IT pro who explained that mail exchange records (MX records) for Hillary's email domain, clintonemail.com, indicate that emails entering her server first entered via MxLogic, a spam management and compliance company now owned by McAfee. It's unclear if her outbound email also went through MxLogic, but it's a good bet that it did.

An apparent IT expert interviewed by TheDC, and whose last name is Walker (first name not given) said, "I'd bet to some extent that [Clinton's] emails are sitting in an MxLogic data center either on the server used to service her domain, or within their elaborate backup system. Even if she somehow wiped the data from MxLogic through their interfaces, it probably still exists somewhere within their organization."

Walker admits the company might not have the actual contents of the emails, "but they do have logs of all of the transactions that took place." He was also surprised that Hillary's server configuration was pointing to MxLogic's servers, not her own.

"If I'm in the business of hiding email servers from governments I think I would point my MX record directly to my mail server and handle my anti-spam problem on my own server, and not through a third-party company," Walker said.

Another IT expert (who wishes to remain anonymous due to the Clinton's history of causing others to mysteriously commit suicide) has been looking into the Clinton email scandal and says he has no doubt that McAfee "has log files of all the email traffic that passed through their firewall to or from clintonemail.com."

This same expert believes that a congressional committee investigating the Clinton's server setup "should require McAfee to describe in detail the disposition of transaction logs kept by their servers covering email transfers to and from clintonemail.com." And if they destroyed the logs, they need to ask McAfee why and when.

Unlike some Americans, I have no doubts about Hillary Clinton.

Some people think she's God's gift to womankind; I see her as God's "Punk'd" to women. She pays them less and in countries that oppress women, she takes bribes from their leaders as a "donation" to her foundation.

Some people think Hillary is as truthful as Mother Theresa. I see her as truthful as her husband, Bill, when he said, "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky." 

Some people see Hillary as a strong, competent leader. Those people have Hillary confused with Carly Fiorina, Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann.

Hillary Clinton is a fraud. She was impotent as Secretary of State but the liberal media never challenged her on those supposed accomplishments.

Somehow the liberal public is convinced that she has a date with destiny to be our next president. I hope her date with destiny is in a federal prison if she is found guilty of the charges regarding national security. It is unacceptable for there to be two rules  of law: one for the public and another for high-ranking politicians.

We have become a nation cleaved in the middle by this administration, led by a man who promised to bring us together, to end racism and poverty, to part the ocean. He hawked "Hope and Change."

Now intelligent Americans are hoping to change what Obama has brought to us and what Hillary Clinton would carry on if somehow she becomes our next president.

But some liberals vote based on the demographics of the liberal candidate, not with logic and facts. They want the first black president to be followed by the first female president, but they don't have a problem with schools like Washington University to ban words like 'female.' 

As things stand now, Clinton's emails may be recovered by the FBI and handed over to the Benghazi committee and scrutinized to find if any classified information was sent or received on her server. 

Whether or not the FBI finds she lied about the emails she sent or received, there should be no mistaking the fact that Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president.

But since when has that fact gotten in the way of liberal voters?

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Carly takes Tingle's Lunch Money

Carly Fiorina clearly won the early debate going away on August 6th, but she did even more in an interview with Obama's Chris Matthews, following her win. 

When "Tingles" tried to get her to back down from her debate stance of calling Clinton a liar, saying that it isn't a good strategy to generalize the empty pantsuit as such, Carly had a forceful, graceful and elegant comeback. She didn't allow the leftist Matthews to ruffle her feathers, but I believe she ruffled his.

At the end, even Chrissy couldn't help but be impressed with Ms. Fiorina's style. "I see why you stood out tonight," he said.

As you may know, MSNBC's ratings is about the same as the Iran deal in Israel. People are getting wise to the left's eroding of American values and the economy.

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