DEMOCRAT'S FAKE NEWS: RUSSIANS IMPACT ELECTION

DEMOCRATS LOSS; CLINTON DID IT--NOT THE RUSSIANS

This weekend (December 10-11, 2016) the MS media, TV talking heads, and the jabbering self- absorbed pundits are focused on so-called "fake news stories" and the supposed "Russian cyber hacking" which these Clinton supporters claim altered the election results. The truth is that the Democrats seem incapable of accepting the fact that they decisively lost this last election. What makes it so difficult to admit is that they lost to a political novice..who had no "donor class" support, who won while spending only half of the $1.2 billion dollars Clinton spent. They lost against a candidate who the mainstream media despised, who had to weather a storm of mud slinging, who had no newspaper editorial endorsements, no Hollywood supporters, and the active antagonism of a sitting President, two former Presidents, the powerful Bush family, the Clinton Political Machine and the entire establishment wings of both political parties. What the Democrats can not swallow is the fact that they fielded a horribly flawed, inept and unlikeable candidate, who ran a campaign without a message, who focused on coastal big donors and elites and divisive identity politics, and who was so overconfident of her win that she squandered valuable time and resources in the final weeks to make "show appearances" in states she could not win, and ignored a vast swath of potential Democrat voters in the Rust Belt where she might have changed the outcome. Sadly. the Democrats do not want to face up to their failures. They would rather blame their embarrassing defeat on the Russians and an aberrant news incident that was not news at all.

With the apparent prodding of the President, some elements within the CIA have come up recently with a "more palatable" story of the "Russian effect"for the Obama Administration to peddle to the press and meet its misguided need to delegitimize the incoming Trump administration. Sadly, this partisan misinformation effort of the Administration was met with a chorus from a few of the disgruntled old guard GOP who have been sidelined by the People's choice. These two aged and out of touch US Senators hubristically believe that they know better than the 64 million Americans who just voted. In this "new" CIA report the nation's sleuths apparently lay out more circumstantial evidence, further inferences, vague suggestions, and hypotheticals drawn from earlier inferentially based reports. But still there is no "smoking gun: and no actual proof that the Russians or Mr. Putin had anything to do with the cybersleuthing that revealed Ms.Clinton's embarrassing speeches to Wall Street audiences, the emails of Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Ms Brazile, and the damning remarks of Mr Podesta. Certainly, there is no shred of a suggestion that the Wikileaks revelations had any impact on the actual election process or its out come as the Democrats and their supporters continually try to suggest by illogically ]conflating the hacking incidents with the election results.

The hackers (whomever they were--Russian, Chinese, British, disgruntled Clintonistas, or some guy in Washington DC) exposed to the voting public the inner workings of the Clinton campaign, as well as the hubris, lies, and venality of the Clintons and their supporters. That information was valid and true. It did not compromise the election process. It only added to the information that voters could process to make an informed decision. It may not have helped Mrs. Clinton's chances. But the leaks were not fabrications--they were the actual utterances and writings of the targets of the hacking incidents, the candidate and her supporters. They were simply a window into what the candidate and others said or wrote. Mrs Clinton's speeches, Podesta's views about Catholics, Wasserman-Shultz's thumb on the scale against Sanders. Brazile's attempts to purloin debate questions, all of these exposed the character and the motives of the candidates and their supporters. Similar devastating, embarrassing and revealing tapes and recordings were released about Mr. Trump as well. They did not help him either. No one seems to mind that they were released.

So let us finally leave this vale of tears and gnashing teeth. The Democrats lost fair and square. It is best for them and our nation which depends on a strong and vibrant opposition party that they make an honest assessment of their failures and rectify them, rather than continue this charade of fake news and cries that-"it's the Russians fault".