In case you were still thinking about voting for Hillary Clinton today in the Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island or Vermont primaries, please allow me to toss a few extra reasons why Hillary is the worst possible choice for Democrat in there.
Namely the Scorched Earth theory.
Basically that works in the following way. If Democrats don't want me to be their nominee then I will get so dirty with my tactics that the Republicans can use it to destroy Obama. If it's not me it's nobody from this party essentially.
She has nothing positive to run on. She's got, "I'm a woman" and "My husband was a popular President". Wow. Those are such substantiative reasons to vote for someone.
But as she's learning quickly, women that pay attention to issues over gender are not voting for her and her husband's pandering to Republicans (see: NAFTA) is killing her across states where manufacturing jobs have rapidly disappeared over the past 15 years.
So this week, sensing a desperation not before seen by the Clinton Machine, they went as negative as they possibly could.
First releasing the Republican-esque "Red Phone" Ad. It looks like an ad straight out of the 1980s Reagan playbook.
Then she went out and slyly tried to cloud whether or not Obama was a Muslim. He's not and has clearly stated such but in doing so she basically made a discriminatory slur. Being Muslim should not disqualify you from being President no more than being a Christian, being Black or Hispanic or yes in your case Hillary, being a WOMAN should. Still in this post-9/11 paranoia world, Muslims are the bad guys to many of the non-thinking in America.
Finally she closed the week off with concrete proof of her willingness to destroy her own party's nominee at all costs... by endorsing JOHN MCCAIN over Obama!
"I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know that Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."
Sometimes it smarter to bow out gracefully rather than put yourself ahead of your party and your life long friends and allies. For Hillary, she could give a fuck about those friends.
It's all about her.
-Rp
2 comments:
I'm really afraid the scorched policy has begun and that the party is on the brink of imploding. The DNC needs to act quickly to put an end to it. And it starts with the super-delegate mess. It is time to tell all the senators, representatives, and all other designated super-delegates that their "super" status is over. If they want to attend the convention as a voting delegate, let them take a delegate position based on the results of their state's primary results. And I don't believe that Howard Dean is up for the job. He needs to resign - immediately.
Actually Hillary's chances of winning this are extremely low.
At this point she should drop out and endorse Obama, and pray for a spot in his cabinet.
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