Hillary Clinton’s launch of her presidential bid exhibits neither the oratorical triumph of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s Liberty College debut nor the low-key toughness of Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul’s opening rally in Louisville. Instead, she has taken to social media to air a video (above) in which she looks into the camera and says (1:35) ‘I’m running for president.’ And then, at the end: ‘It’s your time, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey.’
This gap between the big-stage premiers of her two first rivals and her own small-screen YouTube announcement reflects her campaign’s chief problem: the gulf between Hillary’s vaunted record of accomplishment — and what she has actually delivered.
While her fans boast of her ‘decades of experience,’ Clinton has little to nothing to show for her years in public life. Her four years as secretary of state are defined by the words ‘e-mail server,’ ‘Russian reset,’ and ‘Benghazi.’ Her eight years in the Senate included no memorable legislative accomplishments. As First Lady, she engineered HillaryCare — a health reform so hated that a Democrat Congress never even scheduled it for a vote.
The White House feared that the gargantuan proposal would be rejected by the Clintons’ own party on Capitol Hill. Also, while simultaneously the First Lady of Arkansas and a partner at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm, Clinton waded through Whitewater, Castle Grande, cattle futures contracts, and other dodgy get-rich-quick schemes. And yet she wants us to believe that she is a natural for the role of leader of the free world.
The one word that should greet Clinton’s announcement is ‘why?’
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor and a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University
For comparison, heres Rand Paul:
And Ted Cruz:
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