God help us if Chelsea Clinton runs for office

[mountaineer]

God help us if Chelsea Clinton runs for office
Maureen Callahan
NY Post
Feb. 25, 2017

Last Sunday Chelsea Clinton, usually such a reticent public figure, took to Times Square with her 2-year-old daughter, Charlotte, to march in the Muslim solidarity rally.

“Thank you to all who organized #IAmAMuslimToo today — Charlotte’s 1st protest rally. #NoBanNoWallNoRaids,” she tweeted.

Chelsea’s also promoting her new, co-authored book “Governing Global Health,” with a soft-focus Q&A in the Sunday New York Times and an eight-city tour in April. It’s a more high-profile push than the one for her last, a 2015 YA book called “It’s Your World,” which focused on low-key school visits — exercising, perhaps, an abundance of caution during her mother’s presidential campaign.

This was, for decades, the Clinton strategy: Say as little as possible, avoid unforced errors. While stumping for her mother in 2008, Chelsea took it to new levels, refusing to answer this question: “Do you think your dad would be a good ‘first man’ in the White House?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately,” Chelsea said. “Even though I think you’re cute.”

The interrogator? A 9-year-old “kid reporter” from Scholastic News.

If Chelsea’s new online persona seems surprising — she’s come alive on Twitter, prolific and politicized — party observers say it shouldn’t be. In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s devastating electoral loss, it seems Chelsea Clinton, historically boring and opinion-free, is mulling a run for high office.  ...

Last November, Page Six reported that Chelsea was being groomed for a Congressional run. The Clintons “will not give up,” a source said. “Chelsea would be the next extension of the Clinton brand.”

That’s the problem. Putting aside America’s exhaustion with dynastic politics, Chelsea herself, as a potential candidate, comes loaded with Clintonian baggage: the greed, the entitlement, and her mother’s greatest flaw — an inability to connect with common people.

Chelsea, like her mother, seems unruffled to the point of robotic function.   ...

If anything, a Chelsea Clinton congressional run could most closely resemble Caroline Kennedy’s disastrous bid for Senate in 2008 — running, on the fumes of her father’s legacy, for the very seat Hillary had vacated to run for President.

Chelsea’s own tentative forays into public life haven’t gone well. In 2012, after decades of dodging the press, she decided she wanted to work as a broadcast journalist and met with all the major networks. Those meetings, according to Buzzfeed, were painful. One executive said that Chelsea and her team “acted like we should be grateful” that she was in the room. “There were ground rules,” said another executive, “what she could and couldn’t report, only good news.” They passed.

Chelsea eventually got a stint at NBC News, where she was paid $600,000 a year to conduct a few cringe-worthy interviews, the worst with the Geico Gecko. “Chelsea Clinton finds her level,” said The Baltimore Sun.  ...

If Chelsea were to run, she’d most likely go after Nita Lowey’s seat in Westchester, where the Clintons live. Lowey, of course, is the lifelong Democrat who’d earned the shot for U.S. Senate in 2000 but stepped aside when Hillary decided to run. Should Chelsea muscle her way in, it would be a very Clintonian beginning — and the party itself should beware the now-Clintonian ending.   

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In the fine tradition of her carpetbagging mother, she'd run in Westchester - a place she's never lived? Good grief. She offers nothing of value - no ideas, no intelligence, no experience. In other words, the perfect Democrat. 

[mountaineer]

Chelsea Clinton Is Exploiting the Resistance to Elevate Herself Politically
With a Clinton in the spotlight, progressive newcomers won't emerge
By Michael Sainato • 02/23/17 3:00pm

On February 16, Chelsea Clinton announced a book tour in April for It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going, which targets 10-14 year-olds in eight cities across the country. Simultaneously, mainstream media outlets and Clinton loyalists began elevating Chelsea Clinton as an anti-Trump spokesperson. Though Hillary Clinton lost to one of the most unfavorable presidential candidates in recent history, the Clintons remain a favorite with the mainstream media elite.

Since Hillary Clinton’s election loss, rumors have circulated about Chelsea’s inevitable foray into politics. Media outlets have speculated congressional and Senate runs, and Chelsea Clinton has only denied the alleged future Senate bid. On February 22, Mercury News published an editorial titled “Is Chelsea Clinton Donald Trump’s most formidable Twitter foe?” The answer—from anyone other than a Clinton publicist—should be a resounding “no,” but the article went on to praise Clinton’s recent tweets, which several media outlets have adapted into news stories. As The Washington Post reported, “Clinton’s Twitter account has lately been getting saltier.”

On February 19, Chelsea Clinton took her two-year-old daughter to a Muslim Solidarity Rally in New York City, which received coverage from The Washington Post, The Hill, and, of course, Chelsea’s personal Twitter feed.

This appearance and the constant coverage of her tweets provide Chelsea Clinton with the cult-like coverage necessary to gain political power while avoiding political risk. This coverage also inadvertently benefits Hillary Clinton, who cannot make such appearances without garnering negative coverage for exercising the same expediency. With Chelsea Clinton, the Clinton brand is still able to receive praise and admiration from the elite mainstream media.  ...

More at The Observer.

[Victoria33]

@mountaineer

I expect Ivanka Trump to run for president after her father.

[mountaineer]

I'd be really surprised if that happened, @Victoria33 . Not impossible, I suppose. 

Chelsea, who has absolutely no real-life job experience and who has accomplished absolutely nothing in her life, is a perfect candidate for a state that elected her mother to the U.S. Senate, though. 

[mountaineer]

 Chelsea Clinton lets loose on Twitter
Her mom's devastating defeat, coupled with the rise of Trump, has coaxed out a new Chelsea.
By Annie Karni
02/26/17 07:04 AM EST
Politico (consider the source)

Chelsea Clinton has discovered something new since Inauguration Day: a spicy, sarcastic online personality.

In 2016, the uber-careful, wonky-like-her-mother former first daughter spent much of the presidential campaign trying not to make waves online. She tweeted about anodyne issues like elephants and hydration.

“Heartbreaking to see the elephant poaching crisis growing in Angola,” she tweeted last July, days before the Republican National Convention. “Another reason water is vital,” she wrote on Aug. 8, in the heat of the general election, linking to an article about water in Peru.

Her endorsement of H2O was retweeted just 84 times — which, given her more than 1.5 million followers, meant that it was effectively ignored.

But Hillary Clinton’s devastating defeat, coupled with the rise of President Donald Trump, has coaxed out a new Chelsea: provocative, punchier, and, for virtually the first time in her life, someone angling for attention in the political fray.

“What happened in Sweden Friday night? Did they catch the Bowling Green Massacre perpetrators?” she tweeted on Feb. 19, taking aim at both the president and his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, for fabricating terrorist attacks. The sarcastic post was retweeted more than 41,000 times.

Like the rest of the characters in her mother’s orbit, Chelsea Clinton is in a moment of transition, trying to figure out whether she’ll pursue her own political career — a move she hasn’t ruled out — or find a path outside the family business.  ...

The family business. 

[mountaineer]

Chelsea Clinton Tweets ‘Outrage’ Over Birther Theory That Her Mother’s Campaign Admitted to Starting
BY: Chandler Gill   
February 27, 2017 10:55 am

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, tweeted Saturday her outrage over the birther conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama, despite it being reportedly started by her mother's 2008 presidential campaign.

The former first daughter wrote on Twitter that she is "still outraged anyone tried to ‘birther' President Obama." Her comment was a response to CNN host Jake Tapper, who called out White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for criticizing a New York Times reporter for misstating his birth place.

    An all time favorite tweet. Favorite meaning most appreciated, not meaning like-b/c still outraged anyone tried to "birther" President Obama https://t.co/GvMwcbDTkY

    — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) February 26, 2017

Clinton did not mention that one of her mother's former campaign staffers floated the birther controversy during the 2008 presidential campaign, the Gateway Pundit reported.

In September, Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, said that a campaign staffer was the one who circulated the false claim about Obama, Breitbart reported.   ...

Full story at Washington Free Beacon

[Millee]

She has less charisma than her mother, if that's even possible.   :talkhand:

[Wingnut]

She would make a fine Ambassador to Lower Uncton.

[GtHawk]

She would make a fine Ambassador to Lower Uncton.

Now why would you want to blight Lower Uncton? The Clintons make the Bundys look upperclass.

[Joe Wooten]

She has less charisma than her mother, if that's even possible.   :talkhand:

And far less intelligence. I'd be willing to bet someone else is writing those tweets for her.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

She has less charisma than her mother, if that's even possible.   :talkhand:

Nice kid, but about as sharp as a bag of wet mice...

[Rivergirl]

Seems to that it's up to whomever wants to run for any office.   They don't need our permission, YET.

[Wingnut]

Now why would you want to blight Lower Uncton? The Clintons make the Bundys look upperclass.

Can't argue widdat!

[XenaLee]

She has less charisma than her mother, if that's even possible.   :talkhand:

That's just due to the Web Hubbell influence, no doubt.  Bubba is, if nothing else, charismatic.

[Fishrrman]

XenaLee wrote:
"That's just due to the Web Hubbell influence, no doubt..."

Watch this, and tell me how much doubt you have:

[Idaho_Cowboy]

XenaLee wrote:
"That's just due to the Web Hubbell influence, no doubt..."

Watch this, and tell me how much doubt you have:

None at all. The thought that anything could be attracted to Hillary gives me nightmares. Let's just say I've seen better heads on a glass of beer.

[Wingnut]

Let's just say I've seen better heads on a glass of beer.

I'm just gonna let that one (is it lay or) lie out there.