Hillary - Machiavelli's "The Princess"

If Niccolo Machiavelli was a contemporary author, his seminal work would be based on the life of Hillary Clinton and titled "The Princess". As a prime example we only have to look at her performances during the last Democrat and Republican Presidential Primary Debates. Not content with planting questioners only at the Dem events, she now plants them (with an assist from CNN) at Republican events.

Michelle Malkin has the goods on the Democrat plants at CNN's YouTube Republican debate two days ago. So far, the number of Democrat and liberal activists chosen by CNN to ask Republican candidates for President questions is approaching double digits. The problem is not Democrats asking Republicans questions - I think that the GOP candidates are perfectly capable of answering them. The issue is that the reason for the separate debates is the same reason why there are separate primaries. Each debate is supposedly designed for the separate and distinct constituencies of the parties, be it the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, questioning the persons that they one day will support as their party's candidate in the general election. There are other types of debates, of course, such as the GOP being invited to the debates sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. But in those cases, candidates and the audience have long been forewarned that they are entering "enemy" territory, so to speak, and will be tendered contentious and often combative lines of questioning. In the so-called 'YouTube" debates, that's wasn't the way the events were promoted or intended.

In fact, the way that CNN has handled the debates that they've hosted so far is an embarrassment and an abomination. They seeded the Democrat debates with liberal activists championing the candidates causes - most often benefiting Hillary Clinton. CNN seeded the Republican debate with more liberal activists asking questions related to liberal causes as opposed to issues that GOP members themselves are interested in. Oddly, the beneficiary of that was also most often Hillary Clinton.

Well, there's a reason why CNN is known as the "Clinton News Network"...