2008 and again in 2012, real Americans knew we were being lied to about Barack Obama and that the media covered for him.
Fortunately those days are over.
In next year's election against Donald Trump all that has been whispered, smothered, lost and hidden about Hillary Clinton will be blasted out by Trump. The media will have no choice but to help him because he owns them.
By March Trump will be coasting to the Republican nomination. In the past such early success has been a problem for Republican candidates. The media used it as an excuse to stop covering him.
Rules about matching funds and not starting too soon have also hampered Republicans while Democrat PACs have openly violated the spirit of the campaign finance laws. That won't happen next year. Trump commands coverage and will start campaigning against Clinton months before she even gets her party's nomination.
He will bang away in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia where Clinton already is at 57% unfavorable.
As the Benghazi investigation wraps up (which cannot possibly help Clinton); Trump will call a press conference with Benghazi victim families who say she lied to them. Every minute will be another gut punch to Clinton. Trump will run TV spots showing Clinton cackling and asking Hillary,"What difference does it make?," that will be very effective.
To erode Clinton's female support, Trump will stand with Kathleen Willey and talk about how Hillary's job was to smear and belittle her husband's sexual abuse victims and the media will cover it.
Again and again Trump will tell America about Huma Abedin and her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
None of these pressers would be covered if called by Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. They would have to buy the time. Thinking otherwise is delusional. The so called experts who say Trump is unelectable are even more delusional.
Of course there are countless additional Clinton crimes and scandals which can be used to hit Hillary, but those I've mentioned will more than make the point. Those who bank on 2016 being a re-run of 2008 and 2012 when cowardly Republicans would not and could not level knock out punches that might have stopped Obama cold are simply wrong.
Hillary Clinton will not even come close to Donald Trump in the general election.
