Schools Matter: Podesta Promoted GOP Fringe to Make Clinton Palatable

Schools Matter: Podesta Promoted GOP Fringe to Make Clinton Palatable:

Podesta Promoted GOP Fringe to Make Clinton Palatable

Chris Hedges has another insightful piece that should be required reading for all those celebrating HRC's imminent win.  It features John Podesta's emails once again.  A clip from TruthDig:

. . . .The Clinton campaign, aware that the policy differences between her and a candidate such as Jeb Bush were minuscule, plotted during the primaries to elevate the fringe Republican candidates—especially Trump. To the Democratic strategists, a match between Clinton and Trump seemed made in heaven. Trump, with his “brain trust” of Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, would make Clinton look like a savior.

A memo addressed to the Democratic National Committee under the heading “Our Goals & Strategy” was part of the trove of John Podesta emails released this month by WikiLeaks.

“Our hope is that the goal of a potential HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] campaign and the DNC would be one-in-the-same: to make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to the majority of the electorate. We have outlined three strategies to obtain our goal …,” it reads.

The memo names Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Ben Carson as candidates, or what the memo calls “Pied Piper” candidates who could push mainstream candidates closer to the positions embraced by the lunatic right. “We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously.” . . .Schools Matter: Podesta Promoted GOP Fringe to Make Clinton Palatable: