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Volume 8, Number 8 October 2016

EVERY LIBERAL REALLY SEEMS

SO, SO SAD
By Hugh Hewitt

Publisher, Dr. Donald W. Sweeting

Editor, Jeff Hunt

A First Lady knows what is going on; she is deeply involved

in the administration of her spouse. That is a big credit on
Mrs. Clintons side. So was her time in the Senateeight
yearsshe understands fully the institution and would
be quite capable of delivering legislative product. So, too,
were her ten years as First Lady of Arkansas, especially her
work in education reform and childrens health. So was her
lawyering and her original sponsorship of the Childrens
Education Fund. So was her extraordinary legal education
at Yale, her time with the Watergate special prosecutor, her
years at Wellesley at which she excelled. She even had a
little walk on the wild side as a Goldwater girland then
a lot longer walk with Saul Alinsky.
Youve got to know these things. Shes written three
best-selling books, shes surrounded by loyalists, she
knows how big the government is and how to staff it.
She is very experienced.

Hugh Hewitt, professor, author, speaker, radio host, addresses the 2016 Western
Conservative Summit audience about the upcoming presidential election.

Having done 172 radio interviews of active presidential

candidates and been a panelist in four presidential debates,
I have a few observations.
Not one of our seventeen candidates was perfect, all of
them were better than Hillary Clinton, and one of them
has wonfair and square.
I want to teach you how to make the most
effective argument for voting for Donald
Trump.
Hillary Clintons Experience

Having said that, though, in the eight years as First Lady,

her single biggest legislative attempt was HillaryCare,
which makes ObamaCare look efficient and effective.
She is the grandmother of ObamaCare, and ought to be
credited with all of the ideas which are now raising your
deductibles, driving up your premiums, and making
healthcare less and less accessible to the poor because while
they have theoretical entitlement insurance, they cant find
doctors who will see them or treat them. You ought to
credit that to her and demand that she own it.

Demand
Clinton Own It

If you dont recognize Secretary Clintons greatest strengths,

you cannot puncture them. She is enormously experienced
in government: eight years as Secretary of State and eight
years as First Lady, which is the one job other than President
that most prepares you to be President. The First Lady is
more intimately involved in the ongoing dealings of the
presidency than even the Vice President.
When I was a young White House lawyer, I had a Friday
staff meeting with Council to the President Fred Fielding
about which he had one rule: it could never be interrupted
except by the President or Mrs. Reagan. President Reagan
never interrupted the meeting, and the meeting was
always interrupted.

You also ought to credit to her, from her time

in the White House, an inability to keep
track of what her President was up to. I need
not say any more.

Mostly, though, you need to focus on her

time as Secretary of State, and Ive developed a device
remember Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge? It helped
you learn the scales: E, G, B, D, F. So I offer to you: Every
Liberal Really Seems So, So Sad. If you can remember
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and he, Kadafi, did die. And then we left, and we never
had a plan, and we diedfour Americansand indeed,
thousands of people have died. She abandoned Benghazi
that night. In a damning and devastating report that she
says we ought to move on from, Dorothy Woods, widow
of Ty Woods, said, I will not be told to move on from,
because I know what happened, and I know I was lied to,
and I know who lied to me. We dont have to move on
from Benghazi, nor should we take our eyes away from
what Libya has become: a living hellhole through which
a million people have passed en route to Greece, and to
the refugee crisis that has become Europes great bane and
burden and is tearing Europe apart. Europe is Hillarys
they used to say Lawrence of Arabia, now its Hillary of
Libya. She owns it, its hers.
Hugh Hewitt has lead our annual Young Conservatives Leadership Conference where 200
students spend a week learning about the conservative worldview.

that, youll have at your fingertips the ability to make an

argument about Hillary Clinton which is devastating.
Every Liberal Really Seems So, So Sad

Libya. Every LiberalReally.

The R stands for Russian Reset. She offered up to Putin
a button that had written on it a wrong translation of
Resettelegraphing competence right there. The reset
resulted in our withdrawing missile defense from Poland,
another ally, Russia seizing Crimea after an international
propaganda victory at the Sochi Olympics, and an
increasing aggressiveness across the world and harassment
of our diplomatsincluding entering their homes and
killing their pets. Putin wants to send messages, and he
does so every day. He is deep in his involvement in Syria,
he is back in the Middle East with the Russians for the
first time since their exit in 1972 under Sadat. America is
losing under President Lose and Secretary
of State Lose.

The first five letters of the first five words go to her vaunted
tenure as Secretary of State. Every begins with E which
stands for Egypt, which was a stable and useful ally in the
Middle East under Hosni Mubarak for twenty-five-plus
yearsuntil the Arab Spring arrived and we deserted our
long-standing ally. Mrs. Clinton sent Frank Wisner, a longtime ambassador whose name may or may not be familiar to
you, to reassure Mubarak of our unrelenting support. She
then undercut Wisner and participated
with the President in the overthrow of
Every Liberal ReallySeems.
Clinton
Hosni Mubarak by refusing to stand with
The first S is, sadly, for Syria, where the
him under any circumstances, signaling
Abandoned
dictator Assad received high praise from
to demonstrators and the Muslim
Benghazi
Hillary Clinton, and then a hands-off
Brotherhood that they would have their
approach as he began to commit genocide
way with that countryand they did.
on his peoplea genocide thats killed a
Because of Hillary Clinton and President
half-million people and caused more than a million to flee
JV, the Muslim Brotherhood took over that country
that country. Refugees, amidst whom are terrorists, but
and was in danger of turning it into another Al Qaedamostly just miserable people, forced from their country
exporting state.
by barrel-bombs and chemical weapons, red lines that
EgyptEvery.
were not enforced, and a plot planned out by Secretary of
Liberal, L stands for Libya, about which Hillary
State Clinton with her cracker jack team of aces at the
Clinton said, We came, we saw, he died. Indeed, we did,
State Department.
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Every Liberal Really SeemsSo, So Sad.

The last S on the foreign policy side is the Status of
Forces Agreement, which was initially negotiated by
President Bush to expire in December of 2011, but also
with the intention that it be extended by the new President
as circumstances required on the ground. Its up to the
Department of State to negotiate such an agreement, in
consultation with the President; that means it was on
Hillary. No such negotiation was concluded. The Iraqis,
being good negotiators,
expected counter-offers, but
Clinton Is
never got one. We now have
more than four thousand
Disqualified
troops in Iraq without a
Status of Forces agreement.
Because of the failure of Hillary Clinton, President Obama
had an excuse and peremptorily withdrew ten thousand
troops from Iraq in December of 2011, leading to the
collapse of half that country, and the expansion of ISIS
from Syria into Iraq so that it became the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria. President Obama, otherwise known as
President JV, refers to it as ISIL, but the rest of the world
says the Islamic State or ISIS. He doesnt even want to
conform to the reality of the worlds usage. Hes not on the
ballot, but his six-word legacy is: Leading From Behind,
Red Line, JV. Thats it, six words. The worst President of
modern timeshe is simply that bad.

marked or not marked. None of that mattersit is clearly

a violation of law.
What matters is that it compromised our national security.
I asked former deputy director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, Mike Morrell, who is also currently acting director
of the CIA, in an extensive interview a year ago, what he
thought of the server. Bad judgment. We know that our
enemies have the capability to go after every unencrypted
server. So, I asked, you are saying the Russians, the
Chinese, the Iranians have everything on her server? To
which he answered, Yep. They have everything. Now,
think about every iPad you own, every cell phone, every
computer youve sat down at. If youve sent or received
emails, direct messages, texts from those, if I took the last
five years of every message that came or went, and gave
them to your worst enemyyour worst three or four or
five enemieshow would you feel about your life? Would
it be compromised? Would you be vulnerable?
Think about the data set that our enemies have compiled
on would-be President Clinton and everyone in
communication with her. All of the cabinet members,
David Axelrod, Former Chief of Staff William Daleyno
one knew they were sending anything to an unencrypted,
private, home-brewed server, which is like sending it
directly to Moscow. So everyone who did that has a file

Every Liberal Really Seems So, So Sad. Ive told you

about Egypt, Libya, Russia, Syria, and the Status of
Forces Agreement.
The last two Ss are domestic. The first one is Supreme
Courtand the sixty-six other judicial vacancies which
will be filled on day one by nominees of a new President.
Sixty-seven judges will issue approximately thirty thousand
rulings over the course of their career. The rulings that
come with the name of a Supreme Court Justice on them
will affect your religious liberty, your First Amendment
rights, your Second Amendment rights, and the balance
of power between the federal and state governments. We
cannot allow Hillary Clinton to be President, because we
know that she will appoint hard left judges who will destroy
the Constitution as originally intended.
Supreme Court, and then finally, the Server, which is
misunderstood. It isnt just a complete package of lies by
the former Secretary of Statethough it is that. It isnt
just emails that embarrass her and implicate the Clinton
Foundation in wrongdoingthough it is that. It isnt just
obstruction of justicewhich it is, because she erased
thirty-three thousand of them, some of which were clearly
government emails. It isnt just a violation of 18USC1924though it clearly is the inappropriate storage of
classified materials. It doesnt matter what things were

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EVERY LIBERAL REALLY SEEMS SO,

SO SAD
By Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt, nationally syndicated radio personality,
television commentator, professor, author, and host
of the Young Conservative Leadership Conference,
gave Western Conservative Summit attendees the
arguments to defeat Hillary Clintons campaign
for President.
that doesnt affect our dutyto quote another former first
open on them in all of our hostile foreign intelligence
ladyto just say no, again and again and again.
agencies databases. My first job in the United States
government, after the Courts, was as the foreign intelligence
Colorado is a difficult state. Its a purple state, trending to
surveillance special assistant for Attorney General Smith
blue. Its been red in the past and it can be red again in the
and then Attorney General Meese. We knew about every
future, if we talk about opportunity. There are great shifts
spy in the United States that we could find, and we spied
in American politics. Both candidates have flaws. Usually
on them, but we would go to the Court and get warrants
their flaws are exposed while they are in office; for the first
authorized. The Russians dont authorize warrants; they
time ever we have candidates whose flaws are fully known.
just take everything and use every
That makes for an interesting
vulnerability. Have you got a child
election with high negatives for both
Every Liberal Really
with a drug problem? Have you got
candidates, but we have to make a
a money problem? What information
choice. Its binary. I argue, especially
Seems So, So Sad
can they induce from what you do
to people of faith, that every man
E: Egypt
not know? Can they plant bugs in her
and woman serving in uniform
system that travel with her emails?
L: Libya
deserves the better of the two
Its a nightmare. It compromises her
R: Russian Reset
one of them will be commandereffectiveness. She is disqualified.
S: Syria
in-chief. There is a special burden
S: Status of Forces Agreement
on parents of military, and we owe
Hillary Clinton is Disqualified
S:
Supreme
Court
them and their children the best
Marco Rubio used that word often
commander-in-chief. It cannot be
S: Server
in the debates, but I dont think he
Hillary. The awful toll of the last six
explained it. She is disqualified,
months which is familiar, but sad
meaning she would be dangerous to every American, even
San Bernardino, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, Istanbul, and
if she doesnt know it, even if she knows it and wont admit
Bangladesh, six in six monthsis not stopping because of
it. We know it, and to this certainty, a senior ranking former
President JV, because of the Red Line that wasnt enforced,
CIA member whose name you would all recognizehe
because of leading from behind in Libya. Its going to get
said it to me off the record, but it confirms what Deputy
worse, its going to accelerate, and it isnt going to get fixed
Director Morrell told me on the recordit would be
under Hillary.
intelligence malpractice if they did not have everything
Our duty is clear, our obligations are obvious, and I hope
on that server. I believe she will be indicted, because she
your energy is high and you have a smile on your face. n
ought to be indicted. Whether or not Loretta Lynch does
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