The Wall Street Journal now sends around a morning email, summarizing their editorials and op eds. Here's some thoughts from Friday's.
Hillary and Ted’s Big Problem
Peggy Noonan says that “Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz have both recently learned the same two lessons. The first is that it is not at all pleasant to face a competitor who’s as tough and mean as you are. In each case that competitor is Donald Trump.” Our columnist writes that the second thing Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Cruz “are both learning, I suspect, is something most people learn by their 20s: It matters what people think of you.”
Mr. Cruz is getting no backup from other Republicans on Mr. Trump’s birther argument because “almost no one” who works with Mr. Cruz “likes him.” And as for Hillary Clinton, the problem “is that so many people do not find her to be a person of reliable integrity.” Ms. Noonan adds, “After 23 years at the highest levels of public life, Mrs. Clinton has become encrusted by scandal, from her part in her husband’s dramas straight through to Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation and the emails, in connection with which she may be indicted.”
Mrs. Clinton’s struggles against socialist Bernie Sanders may also be the result of changes in her party. The Journal’s Kimberley Strassel writes that “Barack Obama’s biggest legacy may prove his dismantling of the Democratic center. He ran as a uniter, but he governed as a divisive ideologue and as a liberal, feeding new fervor in the progressive wing.”
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