‘The Hillary Papers’: How will GOP use them against Clinton?

By Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has issued notice that his organization will make use of ‘The Hillary Papers’ – beginning now. The RNC has already found a health-care nugget about Clinton.

How will the Republican Party make use of “The Hillary Papers”? That’s an open question after the conservative Washington Free Beacon published a trove of memos and archive material from Diane Blair, a longtime friend of ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who died in 2000.

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, on Monday issued notice that his organization will make use of that material – beginning now.

“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. But I think everything is at stake when you’re talking about the leader of the free world and who we’re going to give the keys to run the United States of America,” Mr. Priebus told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC.

Much of the initial coverage of this material has focused on Mrs. Clinton’s judgment of Monica Lewinsky as a “narcissistic loony tune” and on a 1992 memo from Clinton pollsters, which asserted that the qualities voters deemed slick in Bill Clinton they judged “ruthless” in his wife.

But the RNC has mined the papers for a health-care nugget, which they’ve already featured in an attack on the unofficial front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

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