By Rick Wilson
As Hillary Clinton goes before the
House Benghazi committee, Republicans have already lost the
narrative—because they still don’t understand Hillary Rules.
The news cycle that will follow Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Capitol Hill is entirely predictable.
Instead of getting any closer to the truths about Benghazi or
Clinton’s homebrew spy-friendly email system or the obvious conflicts of
interest with the Clinton Foundation,
we’ll be treated to tiresome and politically ineffective theater from
the Clinton cheer squad and hapless Republicans who don’t understand
Hillary Rules.
The coming wave of conventional-wisdom stories reflects the GOP’s
many mistakes. And her inevitable escape from legal and political
jeopardy will have been aided and abetted by Capitol Hill Republicans
who wouldn’t know a media strategy if it bit them on their well-fed asses.
It’s not because Chairman Trey Gowdy hasn’t done yeoman’s work trying to
build a careful, non-political case of the handling of Benghazi and in
Clinton’s subsequent email scandal. It’s because members of Congress not
directly involved in the process ran their mouths without a plan,
without a message, and without the discipline that many of us begged
them to exercise.
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Rick Wilson is a national Republican political strategist and media
consultant based in Florida who has produced television for governors,
U.S. Senate candidates, super PACS, and corporations. He’s on Twitter at
@therickwilson.
Source: The Daily Beast
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