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March 19, 2008
Hillary Poised to Destroy the Democratic Party
That the Democratic party is precariously close to imploding should come as no surprise to anyone that knows Hillary. It isn't like we didn't see this coming.
Her candidacy is a joke. She is a talented and accomplished liar. She voted for the war in Iraq before she was against it. She was in favor of NAFTA before she was against it. She won't release her income tax returns. She has foreign policy experience but no one can quite seem to enunciate clearly what that experience might be, aside from receiving a tea kettle in Ireland and traveling to Bosnia with Sinbad.
Over the next few months, it will become increasingly clear that Clinton will lose the popular vote.
As for the delegates, at this point, no one in the Democratic party has a clue what to do about the delegates for Michigan and Florida.
Obama took his name off the ballot in Michigan, but not in Florida. The Republican legislature in Florida moved their primary up before Super Tuesday, in violation of the Democratic party rules, but the Democrats voted with them on the measure.
Hillary, of course, wants to seat any delegates in her favor and drown the others in the Gulf of Mexico or the Great Lakes.
When it is clear that Obama has won the popular vote and the delegates, Hillary will attempt to steal the election by convincing the super delegates to go against the will of the people and the delegates.
All of this fratricidal bickering helps no one but the Republicans. Some pundits suggest that McCain's time out of the limelight works to his detriment. I respectfully disagree. The Democrats will tarnish no one but themselves with their two leading candidates duking it out until the day of the election.
At a time when the Democratic party is in dire need of unity and altruism, what the party finds instead is a peurile, narcissistic, monster that doesn't know when to quit; "A dog that doesn't know when to let go of the bone", as we say in the South.
At a time when the Democrats should be focusing on supporting the dollar or proposing an Olympic boycott in response to China's massacre of unarmed civilians in Tibet, Obama is defending his pastor and Hillary is chronicling her position(s) on NAFTA.
Hillary reminds me of Hitler in the waning days of WWII in Europe. Hitler refused to surrender even as the Russians fought block by block through Berlin, reducing the city to rubble.
Hillary is no better. Nothing matters but her own futile struggle for power. And if she has to destroy the Democratic party in the process, then it's a price she's willing to pay.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 19, 2008 at 9:02 PM
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