So, the Queen is dead — long live the Prince!

Well, she’s not actually dead — more like dethroned —- and she’s probably more dangerous now than ever before. But the Prince —- and his full court press of followers —- will only discover that later, when it’s too late to do anything about it.  That alone proves he’s not up for this job.  Eager and impatient, the Prince has his sights set on the old battle-tested soldier who now stands in his way of becoming a King.

In politics, like war, it’s best not to take prisoners. The crusty old Kings of Europe had the right idea: kill your enemies on sight and leave their rotting corpse lying there to remind everyone of what you’re capable of.  That way, you not only kill off any potential rivals but also send the message to any potential troublemakers of what’s in store for them if they don’t get with the program -— or in this case —- get back in the party.

For good measure, burn their homes and crops to the ground so their immediate necessity is survival, not retribution. It’s difficult to make war when you’re unarmed, hungry and homeless. Translated into today’s mantra of ‘change you can believe in’: It’s difficult to have a voice in the castle when you’ve openly supported the Queen —- who’s just been evicted — and now you’re refusing to bow to the Prince. If you want to be part of the platform and invited to the coronation, you’d better believe in change -— or else.

For decades now, the Kennedys, the Carters, Gores, Kerrys, and even the Clintons have operated as a home-grown government in exile, shooting verbal spitballs from the balcony of history against their archrival, the Republicans.  Now, their little kingdom of kooks is faced with the prospect of a civil war within the Democratic Party with calls for secession, abdication, and an outright purge of perceived internal rivals.

That’s the scary thing about the Left: they’re either groveling at your feet — or clawing at your throat.  If they can’t convince you with emotional pleas of ‘unity’, they’ll beat it into you by brute force.  Any moment now, I expect the racially-balanced, gender-neutral, carbon-friendly firing squads to line up in a perfect circle, and start taking aim at their former comrades.

And these people have the nerve to say the Sunni and Shia can’t get along?

If the Kennedys of Boston were known for “Kennedys never cry” and the Bushes were tagged with “Never Explain, Never Complain” then the Clinton’s would have to be labeled: “Never Forgive, Never Forget”.

The Clintons, like despotic dictators, know that power if not used regularly against your enemies, slowly erodes over time. It’s the original “Use it or Lose it” exercise in regime retention.  Hillary, with an angry, vocal and loyal base of supporters combined with the bad luck of holding too few high cards in a race card poker game, silently watching a wounded Obama limp to the nomination, she has truly become ‘the lady in waiting’.

As for the newly-crowned Prince: I’m guessing he’ll go back and study the techniques and tactics of Stalin and Mao, two of history’s most successful practitioners of power politics and the art of making your enemies an offer they can’t refuse.  Since he’s already a follower of their economic teachings, their political philosophy can’t be that foreign to him.

As for the Queen Without a Kingdom and her husband, the King Without a Castle, they’ll retire to their island of Elba in Chappaqua and await the call of the faithful once the Prince is pounced by the old soldier who studied — and remembers — the tactics of Princes who sought to be Kings.

Cheers!

-Vera Charles…. sipping a Tom Collins.  Or dating him?