Will Hillary run on Bill’s record as president instead of her own record?

Hillary Clinton gave a speech the other day, a possible kick off to her potential 2016 campaign, and I have to admit that I have only read a few excerpts but I found them interesting.

In this speech she railed against the .01 percent, here is part of what she had to say:

“Not just the top one percent, but the top 0.1 percent, or the top 0.01 percent of the population has risen sharply over the last generation,” Clinton said. “Some are calling it a throwback to the Gilded Age of the robber barons.”

  This is an interesting statement  and she made this statement for a reason. Hillary Clinton is trying to capture the Occupy vote but she has a problem; she and her husband are rich and some would say they are part of the 1 percent the Occupy movement is trying to rally against. So she had to distance herself from the 1 percent by pointing the finger of blame at those who have more money than the Clinton’s. See, the real problem is not with 1 percenters such as the Clinton’s, but rather with the elite among the elite.

  But that is not what I want to focus on in this point for I found something else she said to be even more interesting. You would think that Hillary Clinton would run for president based on her record as a New York Senator and as the Secretary of State, but once again she has a problem; her record as Secretary of State is marred by the Benghazi scandal and the problematic and ineffective “reset” with Russia. So what can she run on if she cannot run on her record? She can try to ride the coattails of her husband’s record while he was president, and that is what is seems like she is prepared to do.

  Here is more from the same speech:

Clinton praised the economic policies of the 1990’s pointing out that under her husband “a rising tide really did lift all boats” helping millions of low income Americans.

  What she will run on, in my opinion, is this: if you liked the economy in the ’90’s then we can return to these policies by electing her. This was the opening salvo but this is interesting because if she wants to run on the past than it should open up the doors to question everything that happened back then. Along with Bill Clinton’s record should come questions about Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky.

  Needless to say, if these questions do come up Hillary Clinton will say the Republicans are simply trying to relitigate the past, but how can she possibly make this claim while at the same time running on the past?

  You trot out Monica Lewinsky to air out this dirty laundry in 2014, two years before the election, so that you can claim all of these questions were answered recently so there is no reason to revisit them once again. Here is part of what I wrote on May 9th:

When I heard about this my first reaction–and I wish I wrote about this before Lynne Cheney did–was that this was an attempt to air Hillary Clinton’s dirty laundry while she prepares her 2016 presidential run. Get it out of the way now so questions would not be brought up at a much more inconvenient time, and if they did come up they could claim this old news because this was all covered two years ago.

  This will allow Hillary Clinton to focus on the issues of the ’90’s she wants to focus on while also allowing her to distance herself from the issues she wishes to ignore.

  If this was all orchestrated, as I believe it was, than it was a brilliant political maneuver by the Clinton’s and I think we all know that if nothing else the Clinton’s a brilliant political tacticians. The only question is, will the American people buy into it?