The Godmother

Writing at The Daily Beast, Ben Domenech notes Hillary Clinton's current rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal which she worked hard to negotiate and claimed as a signature accomplishment of her tenure as SecState. His view, Clinton's flip-flop matters not one whit.

Do Republican operatives think it is news to the American people after the decades of knowledge we have about Clinton that she is shifty? No one cares. That she will obfuscate to the point of congressional inquiry? No one is surprised. That she will flip-flop according to poll numbers? No one thinks otherwise! What matters is whether people think she’ll fight for them, and in this economically backward way, that’s what she’s promising.

Domenech predicts that, should she be elected, she will feel totally free to change her mind again on this and other issues. It is all campaign bafflegab.

The bottom line: many who support her understand her to be untrustworthy and don't care. They prefer a crook who is on their side to anyone on the opposite side. Perhaps they are right to do so.