first clear indication that republicans intend to reach back two decades if necessary, in fact, they re going do this, to fight old wars that have long since been settled for most people in order to tear down hillary clinton. and priebus, the chair of the republican party also said today s report from the conservative washington free beacon on hillary s reaction to her husband s affair back with monica lewinsky and about how she once felt about singular pair health care will also be fair game jay newton small is the washington correspondent for time magazine. the past is prologue. this is what we re going to be doing. it s all going to be search going bab 20 years. i don t know. i think they re trying to show what has got their dubes up on the right wing side more than going after hillary. they re trying to show who is going to be the toughest brawler out there. well, keep in mind they re not exactly going after her. when i say that, i m thinking about senator paul, rand paul, and
first clear indication that republicans intend to reach back two decades if necessary, in fact, they re going do this, to fight old wars that have long since been settled for most people in order to tear down hillary clinton. and priebus, the chair of the republican party also said today s report from the conservative washington free beacon on hillary s reaction to her husband s affair back with monica lewinsky and about how she once felt about singular payer health care will also be fair game. johanthan capehart and jay newton-small is the washington correspondent for time magazine. the past is prologue. this is what we re going to be doing. it s all going to be search going back 20 years. i don t know. i think they re trying to show what has got their dukes up on the right wing side more than going after hillary. they re trying to show who is going to be the toughest brawler out there. well, keep in mind they re not exactly going after her. when i say that, i m thinking about sen
we re back. republican chairman reince priebus, that s really his name, declared open season on hillary clinton earlier today on msnbc, responding to a question from andrea mitchell about whether bill clinton s impeachment matters. in the political fights of the 1990s should be fought again in 2016. here is what priebus said. is that a legitimate issue, rehashing the 90s if hillary clinton becomes a candidate for president? i think everything is on the table. i don t see how someone just gets a pass on anything, i mean, especially in today s politics. so i think we re going to have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton and some things may be old and some things might be new. hillary clinton provides a lot of opportunity for us. well, his comment are the
for hillary as a first. we can imagine that easily. there will be a lot of these people. and then you move over to the liberal side of things, and people are sensitive. they don t want gender issues raised per se in a political context. how much risk is this guy rand paul takes? how much is reince priebus taking as a risk? they are going to try to get the presidency in 2016. this isn t a game. november does count. so what you re saying, aren t they playing really risky politics here? absolutely. they start already with a deficit with women already if you look at polling numbers and republicans versus democrats. 2014, it s going to be all about women s issues as it with us in 2012. so you go into 2016 where really having to be sort of sensitive about women. and yet rand paul is totally not doing that. because he doesn t have to worry about it. here is the thing. it s all short-term political thinking. of course rand paul is going to go after hillary clinton and bill clinton. it s sm
there are reasons people don t take shots at bill clinton. he s a former president. there are reasons why people don t take shots at hillary clinton. she s female and you don t get quite that nasty with her. not just he s the former president, bill clinton has his own baggage. as much as a lot of dems don t want to talk about it, there are democrats out there who are also nobody else is taking personal shots at the clintons. they are personal. sexual predator. well, i thought mccaskill referred to she s flip-flopped why is he the only one out there getting personal with the clintons in a way most people would say below the belt? you call somebody a sexual predator, do you have a conversation with the guy about issues then? exactly. it s hard to go on, say, we have a lot of things in common, though. especially when it leaves him open to charges of hypocrisy. i actually think, chris, this is classic karl rovian politics. he s trying to take off the field any strengt