Prepare yourself for the next big Clinton scandal. As The Hill reports today, a new GOP strategy has metastasized which relies heavily on claims made in the book "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton," by New York Times reporters Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth. A GOP official said, "Hillary Clinton's campaign hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. It is rather unbelievable that Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to our conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us. Team Clinton can expect to see and hear this over and over again over the course of the next year."Oh joy. Of course, the timing of the release of this fifteen year-old-scandal, as anonymously sourced in a widely panned book, couldn't be worse for Mrs. Clinton. It coincides with the revelation that Verizon eagerly handed over phone records to the FBI without bothering to inquire whether doing so was legal. If you've ever wondered who that hipster guy in glasses in the television ads was talking to when he asks, "Can you hear me now?" now you have your answer. The boys at the bureau. Now that's a network!
The book is almost uniformly negative and overly focused on what they consider the Clinton's scandalous past and darker aspects of Mrs. Clinton's personality. Her ambition, for example, is seen as an unattractive compulsion that, at times, has led her into untoward behavior. They assert that the Clintons had a longstanding deal to win the presidency, first for Bill and then for Hillary, a secret pact of ambition.
The evidence of such a pact-interviews that have already been challenged in the press-is less than convincing. Moreover, that the Clintons are ambitions and hunger for the public spotlight is obvious. But does this make them different from anyone else in politics, including two of our most notable presidents, Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt?

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