Only yesterday did I get around to reading an article which Glenn Reynolds linked on Saturday. Reading that piece, I learned that Eleanor Cliagree and I have some common ground; we both think Ms. Hillary wins ugly. That Newsweek columnist observes that in the remaining months of the campaign for the Democratic nomination there’s “time enough for Hillary to win ugly, if that’s what winning takes.”
It seems that for Ms. Hillary political victory and the power that comes with it are the be-all and end-all of her life’s purpose. Not commitment to principle or any higher ideals, but to herself.
As Clift observes:
If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in “The Godfather,” where the watchword is, “It’s business, not personal.”
As many have observed, with her back up against the wall, Hillary has emerged as a tenacious campaigner. Frequent Clinton critic Bill Kristol finds she “has turned out to be an impressive candidate.”
Yet, watching her and (begrudgingly) impressed with her tenacity, I find my opposition to her grows. If she were fighting for some noble cause, I would see her as a true leader, a real American heroine. But, instead of waging a principled campaign for the highest office in the land, she has chosen the low road, switching her position on any number of issues and misrepresenting her own past, even misrepresenting her past positions on those very issues.
Even as Hillary has improved her chances at securing the Democratic nomination, her credibility continues to crumble. Many of her erstwhile allies now see her as an opportunist. Is this an individual American women would want as a role model?
Word. Political skills/courage whatever are morally neutral at best and a good case can be made that they are intrinsically damaging; power corrupts, after all. Hillary has made little secret that, above all, she believes in Hillary. If that is at the expense of the Democrat party, the nation generally or even the international scene, well, it is all for a greater good. This woman cannot be disabused of her self-regard fast or hard enough. Of course, Barry is nearly the same in this respect. Decades of cynical religious posturing do much to make up the deficit of his youth and inexperience. McCain… hey, who doubts that when he looks in the mirror he sees about the best darn guy he knows? But anyone with a healthy self-doubt would be ill equipped to run, sadly.
From 1992-2000 the Clintoons faced an energized Republican opposition to their barnyard antics. But, the current Washington Republicans have lost their souls to the perks and income of the fat life of being permanent political panderers.
If anything, a new Clintoon administration will be able to do about what it wants. Try to name the Republicans who would stand up to them.
damn helio I’m afraid you are right. Someone said on a Sunday show, that only these crazy power hungry people would go thru this kind of humiliation and schedule to become President. BUT it is the only job worth all the crap.
But, Dan, Hillary does have a “noble cause”… keeping Obama and his questionable judgment and character and his strange mentor and even stranger “friends” out of the Oval Office.
Even with all her flaws and faults, if a Democrat is going to win in November we’d be better off with Hillary, a known quantity, than Obama. There are many reasons for concern, but just based on the leftist blogs love afair with him, I’d say Obama might be the most dangerous man to ever be so close to the Oval Office and all that means.
I think it is what the people are detesting about all polititians….the race for power then the fight to keep it. The people are coming around to the fact that we’d prefer they just get together on a few good things, pass a few good initiatives, then leave us alone.
My list of three or four things:
1. A simple tax code
2. Reform S Security
3. Reform Medicare
4. Energy security
If you can’t fix those, quit wasting time, renaming post offices and taking foreign junkits.
If a Democrat wins in November and the country survives the first two years, 2010 could be what re-energizes the GOP for reclaiming the house and senate. Once the publics finds how leftist Clinton or Obama really are, the GOP brand will have a new luster. Also those two years will give the GOP time to purge itself of those in leadership who have lost their souls and are political panderers.
Obama needs to change the subject to Hillary. Fight ugly with ugly.
After all, he’s already lost the “I’m a different kind of politician” territory.