Hillary's Nightmare: The Starling Parallels Between 'Inevitable' LBJ in 1968 and Hillary in 2016

American Thinker ^ | 04/20/2015 | Rosslyn Smith

[SeekAndFind]

Watching the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton campaign across Iowa reminded me of another profoundly flawed human being whose nomination was also seen as inevitable 18 month before Election Day: Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1967. 

Actually it was Gene McCarthy I first thought about when I read this a few weeks ago:

Again and again, the activists jumped to their feet, cheering on such promises as breaking up big banks, reining in Wall Street’s “reckless gambling” and addressing the country’s “gross concentrated wealth.”

They might have been listening to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), whose populist crusade on income equality, health care and Social Security have prompted legions of liberal Democrats to try to draft her into a bid for the presidency.

But the speaker was Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who spent the weekend stumping across Iowa.

When I look at the dynamics of the 2016 Democrat Presidential field I have to wonder.  Is Martin J. O'Malley unwittingly playing Eugene J. McCarthy to Senator Elizabeth Warren's Bobby Kennedy?   I ask because I have to look all the way back to the 1968 election for a time in either party when not only has the person most activists want to see as the candidate repeatedly declined to enter the race.  Yet both Democrat activists and reporters keep talking about Warren in more flattering terms than they employ for actual candidates. That's the way Bobby Kennedy was often treated by Democrats and by the press in 1967 and early 1968.  It becomes very hard on the candidates actually in the race.  

[Paine in the Neck]

I read that earlier this AM and was just mulling it over. A key difference is that the Left was very energized back then; worked into a fury, in fact. Now, I just don’t see the energy for a modern Eugene to tap into. I think a better analogy is Hillary as McCain - old, frumpy, angry, mean, short-tempered, unlikeable, but no one else available. Like the GOP with McCain, her party will bow to her inevitability and take a drubbing.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

As much as I loathe Lie-awatha, it would do my heart good to see the rug pulled out from under that fat ass again, to see the incredulity on her face when she realizes that no one wants her. Again.

[Ditter]

I agree.

[blueunicorn6]

Hillary is like LBJ?

Well, they both participated in having national leaders murdered.

[Liz]

IS THE "INEVITABLE, UNTOUCHABLE" HILLARY ANOTHER ERIC CANTOR IN THE MAKING?

The massively-funded Hillary is on the road, disguised as a "regular" American....despite a trail of criminal activities that would make organized crime blush.

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Then-Repub Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (Va), was considered untouchable and inevitable.

<><> Cantor had tons of money---spent 26X times his opponent's $100K.

<><> Cantor consistently polled an astounding 34 points ahead of his unknown opponent.

<><> Cantor was considered "inevitable" and "untouchable".

<><> Cantor had no ethics problems.

<><> Cantor sucked-up to an anti-tea party group.

<><> Cantor sucked up to the latino vote.

<><> Cantor showboated his leadership---was deeply into (gag) "diversity."

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BY CONTRAST HIS OPPONENT Brat:

<><> ran as Cantor's TERM LIMIT

<><> Brat roundly opposed, and was vociferous against amnesty,.

<><> Brat ran as a staunch conservative (now in Congress he has a conservative rating 100%.)

<><> On elections day, Brat got 18,000 more Repub out to the polls than the previous election that elected Cantor.

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CANTOR IN DEFEAT----DUMBFOUNDED:

[Main Street]

The Fix is in. Have you payed attention to that cavalier attitude of Hillary’s. She doesn’t really care what anybody thinks or says or finds out about her. As if she knows something that we don’t. Like already being told by the powers that be, that she will be elected POTUS in 2016.

With ArtDodger’s permission:

“Make no mistakes, she will have a tremendous backing, each and every one with a hand out. All the registered dem voters, all the blacks, all the latinos, all the jews, all the women, all the unions, all the government workers, all the greenies, all the welfare people, all the gays and all the liberals who think they are independents. Add to that the seniors after the MSM tells them the Republican candidate will cut social security, and don’t forget who the dead will vote for in droves. On top of that, SEIU has been servicing the voting machines for several elections now and they have the programming down pat. Same with the media, they have their propaganda technique down to a fine art. The IRS is up and running like a Dusenberg and awaiting orders to pounce on any political group that dares to think the incorrect way.
I tell ya, the ONLY thing that can stop this major push for Marxism is a very, very big explosion.

On top of all that dem unity, there is the conservative fracture. A large amount of conservatives won’t vote for the candidate because he is too far to the right, another large group won’t vote for him because he isn’t far enough to the right. Another huge group thinks he is too strong on abortion, another group thinks he isn’t strong enough. Groups are afraid he is going to let the borders remain open, others fear he is going to shut them.
The dems and the media have done an outstanding job of target groups that don’t like ... something... and then linking that something to the (R) candidate. He is too rich, he is too white, he is too religious, or he isn’t enough of any of the above.”

by ArtDodger

[Jim Noble]

Quite a good article.

I was a McCarthy activist and I can easily see the parallels.

[TomGuy]

The so-called Clintonistas and the sycophant Media see Hillary as “inevitable”. However, the same factions that derailed her last coronation trek are working to derail her current trek, too.

Her Scooby-van tour seemed to have ended abruptly, for some unpublished reason.

Too little enthusiasm? More reporters than citizens showing up at venues? Health situation? Exhaustion?

Depending on the critic, the Scooby-van tour was the greatest success in the history of political campaigns or the biggest fiasco in the history of political campaigns.

[InvisibleChurch]

starling?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well, I remember those days, but I was a dumb idealist college kid and there was this war going on and my parents were conservative and it rattled thier chain when I went left wing nutbag on them so I got involved in Gene McCarthy’s campaign. I had those flower decals all over my ChevyII. But without an unpopular war I guess I don’t see the similarities. Oh, yeah if you are wondering it took until Ronald Reagans second term to bring me back to my conservative roots. Just saying.
Freegards
LEX

[RayChuang88]

I really think the Democratic Party bosses want Hillary to be defeated in 2016 so they could put in younger, more appropriate candidates for 2020--like for example either Joaquin or Julian Castro from Texas.

Many Democrats HATE Hillary Clinton with a passion (at least in private). That's why during the 2008 Presidential campaign, she got pushed out of the way by one Barack Obama in no time flat.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“A key difference is that the Left was very energized back then; worked into a fury, in fact.”

It’s the same left as back then and just as radical. That’s why this country is almost gone. The Marxist radicals of the 60’s are now Obama’s unelected, unaccountable Czars.

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[Patton@Bastogne]

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I guess you're saying that Hillary is the Democrat's version of Mitt "Willard" Romney ...

despised, despised and despised ...


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[Slyfox]

[Publius]

A few years ago in the race for the state House in the 32nd Legislative District of Washington state, the key issue in the Democratic primary was that one candidate had supported McCarthy in 1968 and the other had supported Humphrey.

It's still going on.

[ex-snook]

Hillary is incompetent and should not be President, however, women will elect her. Lucky, she has Bill.