“This vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President…” — Hillary Clinton, January 27, 1998
A storm is coming and you can already hear the wind picking up and see dark clouds on the horizon. First Lady Hillary Clinton once blamed her husband’s “Monicagate” scandal, that ultimately proved to be true, on a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy." Yet the Right Wing isn't a conspiracy, it's a cacophony. Even at the time of the first (and, God willing, only) Clinton Presidency, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was ousted in a coup after leading a Republican revolution that bore his name a mere four years earlier. The Right Wing has been in disarray for a decade, ever since the beginning of George W. Bush’s second term, after the relative unity of his first term, and the Left, by in large, have reveled with delight in watching the circular firing squad as a myriad of Republican subdivisions from the Freedom Caucus, the Liberty Caucus and the Establishment go to war with each other in congress while the Presidential candidates, spurred on by a bellicose business man and reality TV star, mirror that battle in the presidential campaign.
A Ryan Speaker-ship is the first dim ray of hope that the Republicans might be able to finally rally a dysfunctional GOP Congress together since the 2004 elections. A Rubio nomination could hypothetically strengthen this unity and extend it to the conservative electorate. So the answer is plain: both men must be savaged by a terrified Left Wing that faces the prospect of losing power after almost a decade of mismanagement and over promising and under delivering.
Yet, let’s be clear, it won't be a Vast Left Wing conspiracy that launches the endless array of character assassination attempts. Only an adolescent, a paranoid or a demagogue (take your pick with Hillary) believes in "vast" conspiracies, it's simply because they all think the same and when an effective meme is generated it will go viral. Anyone who spends enough time on the internet knows how this works. These two men represent an existential threat to the Left, especially Rubio, who could stand to be the first Latino president. This makes no substantive difference but to a country obsessed with firsts and against Clinton, who markets her gender as if it were her greatest accomplishment, and most compelling justification for higher office, and with a still politically persuadable Latino demographic, it’s potentially a game changer.
So the Left will throw everything and the kitchen sink at them to see what sticks and what makes them bleed. Ryan and Rubio are human with all the corresponding frailties so this Crusade or, Jihad, against them will not be entirely fruitless, I guarantee, but it could prove quite petty. So far we know Ryan exaggerated his marathon record, Rubio misrepresented his family's reasons for leaving Cuba before he was born. Never mind Elizabeth Warren falsely claimed she had Native American blood and Hillary claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary because of his climbing of Mount Everest 6 years after she was born. This is all just silliness and should be laughed off, except in the case of Hillary because of the sheer volume of whoppers and their substance, but eventually the Left will find something, possibly with a little help from Donald Trump, and they'll hold up their smoking gun be it a magnum or a peashooter, like they just found the murder weapon in a regicide, either that or it'll be death by a thousand cuts as we saw with Mitt Romney. That's politics. Just this past week, Trump began harping on Rubio’s possible misuse of a GOP credit card with a few purchases a decade ago.
Hillary may have made up the snipers at the Bosnian Airport but the sniping coming Ryan and Rubio's way is quite real and they can't run and take cover, they have to just take it. That's what real men and women do. If they are, for the most part blameless, then they'll likely prove bulletproof and like, JEB with Rubio in the last debate, the snipers might get hit with a ricochet bullet fired from their own gun. Occasionally life provides a modicum of justice and a smidgen of irony.
By: Michael P. Pietromonaco
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