Open Letter to Hillary Clinton

Dear Hillary,

Before I begin with the main part of this open letter, I would be remiss if I did not congratulate you on your two runs for the Presidency.  Both runs proved that women could, as they should be, be viable candidates for any office in the land.  You were, and are, imminently qualified for the Office of the Presidency.  In fact, I like the majority of the country, agreed when we voted for you in 2016.  The fact that we still have an archaic electoral college in place and it took it away from you does not retract from the fact that the majority of voters thought you were the best choice.  It is imminently obvious since then that our choice was correct.

Given those facts, and the fact that the current occupant of the White House is such a house wreck, I am sure this has cause you to entertain the desire to run for the Presidency in 2020.  I, for one, would urge you not to do so.  I believe it would not only be a mistake for you but for the country as well.

I am sure that you would make a good showing in the primaries.  You might even win the nomination.  I doubt very much that you would win the general election.  The cold, hard facts are that you should have been able to win the last election running away.  Trump was a lightweight and should have been swept aside without a moment’s thought.  For that matter, you should not have had much of a problem with Bernie Sanders in the primaries either. 

That was not the case.  You can honestly attribute that to a lot of negative claims about you and your campaign.  Moreover, you would be right.  You can honestly believe that they were generally false.  In addition, once again, you would be right.   The real problem is that they have the half-life plutonium.  They will not go away in your lifetime, your children’s lifetime, or your children’s children’s lifetime.  Once out there, they will exist forever.

You are an intelligent person, if anything a brilliant person.  You are aware that your biggest issue in the election was to overcome the high level of dislike that had built up around you over the ensuing years since Bill’s presidency.  The conservative right had used his peccadillos and their growing support among conservative media outlets to paint him and you as evil incarnate.  It did not matter that they did so without foundation.  Nothing got in the way of a good story.

During the 2016 campaign you had to fight you had to fight such issues as the email inquiry.  In addition, behind the public scene, there were some of the most inane, asinine, and grotesque claims against you that I have ever seen.  Sadly, some of it was coming from supposedly Democratic sources during the primaries and then carried over to the general election.    Like bad fist, these are not going away.  They will be built on.

Anyone who really looks at a national election realizes that the election does not really focus on the liberal or the conservatives.  It focuses on the middle.  These are the people who claim to be the independent or undecided.  What that means, at least to me, is that you are really focusing on the people who are voting on personality or perceptions as opposed to the issues.  And you are going to be dealing with these perceptions once again.

Although you successfully fought against these specious claims in 2016, they will raise their ugly heads once again in 2020 if you choose to run. 

I hope that the 2020 election is America’s opportunity at sending a message to politicians that we will not accept a nation run by the same kind of self-serving groups as won in 2016.  In order to do so, the Democratic candidate has to go after the Republicans from Day 1 by taking the offensive.  The Democratic candidate cannot be on the defensive.  Sadly, you would be defending yourself and those other issue over and over again.  This stuff will just not go away.

Please do America a favor and endorse a new voice

Sincerely,

Robert Boynton.,��