America Rising, a leading conservative super political action committee, is out with a minute-long montage of Hillary Clinton’s most memorable gaffes from the 2008 Democratic primary debates.
Meant to look like a sitcom episode, the new video, released just hours before Clinton will take center stage at the first Democratic debate this election cycle, opens with a cheesy narrator encouraging Americans to tune into Tuesday’s debate.
“It’s season two and debate wait is over. This fall, tune into ‘Likable Enough,'” the narrator says, as clips of Clinton’s past debate performances play onscreen.
The title, “Likable Enough,” plays off a remark made by then-Sen. Barack Obama during the final debate before the New Hampshire primary in 2008.
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary,” Obama said at the time — a message that appears to stand true this election cycle with Clinton maintaining her front-runner status despite low favorability ratings.
As a laugh track plays in the background, the video features clip after clip of Clinton’s past Democratic opponents hammering her for flip-flopping on certain issues.
“Unless I missed something, Sen. Clinton said two different things in the course of about two minutes,” former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards says in one clip taken from the 2008 cycle.
The video also mocks the Democrats’ current “cast of characters,” dubbing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders “The Socialist,” and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley “Guitar Guy.”
Clinton, Sanders, and O’Malley will join former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb on stage Tuesday evening. The debate will air live from Las Vegas at 8:30 p.m. ET on CNN.
American Rising plans to fact-check all five Democratic candidates during tonight’s debate through live coverage on its website.
