Da Tech Guy has an intriguing theory: "You're Hillary Clinton and you’re running for president and things don’t look good:
Nobody can name an accomplishment of yours.
People presume that you are a liar based on Emailgate.
You’re having the worst campaign launch in the history of history
and finally despite the best efforts of the media the “First woman president” card isn’t moving or guilting people into supporting you.
It’s rapidly reaching the point where you are looking vulnerable. You need to change the dynamic. What do you do? You become the first of something else:
Now an exclusive investigation by The National Enquirer claims that some of the presidential candidate’s famously “deleted” emails are packed full of lesbian references and her lovers’ names.
Mere tabloid titillation? " Maybe...until you remember that it was the Enquirer that broke the John Edwards affair. Read it all.