Mark Steyn: The Icewoman Cometh [To Hill and back]

National Review Online ^ | April 25, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Constitution Day]

Steyn ping.

[Pokey78]

Thanks CD!

Steyn ping!

[Red Badger]

.....preserve our two-party democratic system.

The Constitution DOES NOT guarantee a two-party system.......If we had only ONE party, it would still be okay with the Constitution......

[Paul Ross]

Steyn is taking names...and kicking you-know-what!

[dep]

If we had only ONE party, it would still be okay with the Constitution......

well, true, but it would have to be a really good party, with live music and premium beer and pony rides for the kiddies.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[John Lenin]

with the exception of Hillary’s election as president



If she wins, the fix is in and the country comes unglued.

[Rummyfan]

But if it’s Bill Frist against Hill, get set for a non-stop cavalcade of stories with little inset photos of Mrs. Thatcher, Mrs. Gandhi, Mrs. Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka), Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto, Helen Clark (New Zealand), etc., etc., and headlines like “Is America Ready?” that manage to imply ever so subtly that not voting for Hillary is the 2008 equivalent of declaring that Negroes are three-fifths of a human being. Yes, yes, I know — cattle futures, HillaryCare . . . That’ll be 16 years old on Election Day and nobody — or not enough — will care.

Sobering...... all the more sobering because I can find no fault with the Great Steyn's reasoning. Who can defeat this Be-otch and send her back to Chappaqua????? George Allen? Mitt Romney? Jeb Bush?

[krunkygirl]

save

[Dog Gone]

I think Steyn is wrong. Hillary is not electable.

[MeekOneGOP]

We’re in one of those phases now — hence, the vogue for columns on the “Conservative Crackup,” a fearsome beast that, like the Loch Ness Monster, more and more folks claim to have spotted looming in the distance. In reality, the unrelieved gloom is on the Dem side of the ledger: The Republicans are all but certain to increase their majority in 2006. Whereas, if you want the state of the Democratic party in a single image, cut out the photograph from the New York Times the other day: a pumped Robert C. Byrd giving a clenched-fist salute at a MoveOn.org rally. That’s the Rainbow Coalition 2005 model: a dwindling band of ancient vindictive legislators yoked to a cash-flush unrepresentative fringe. It would actually be to the Democrats’ advantage if the Byrd-Kos union were to crack up, but instead their union seems merely cracked, like a miscast double-act thrown together by a desperate burlesque agent.

There is, however, one exception to the Dems’ dance of death: President-presumptive Rodham Clinton. The chances of a Rodham restoration in the White House are better than even. For one thing, the salient feature of the Clintons’ Democratic party is that it was grand for the Clintons, disastrous for the party: The Dems lost everything — House, Senate, state legislatures, governorships — but somehow Bill and Hill were always the lone exceptions that proved the rule. Clinton couldn’t even bequeath the White House to his vice president in a time of “peace and prosperity,” yet the First Lady won an unprecedented victory in a state she’d never lived in. There is no reason to believe the Clintons’ historical immunity to their party’s remorseless decay will not continue.

bump!

[NCSteve]

Steyn ping for when you get home from church, TC. This one's scary, and dead-on as usual.

[NCSteve]

Hillary is not electable.

I wouldn't mortgage your house to bet on that if I were you.

[MeekOneGOP]

I hope she runs ..... and that you're right.

Maybe that'll be the straw that breaks the JackA$$'$ back. :)

[Rummyfan]

If she wins, the fix is in and the country comes unglued.

If she wins, at least there would be massive Republican gains in the House, Senate, and at the state levels in 2010. Then work on getting her out in 2012, which shouldn't be difficult as I think she would be worse - much worse - than Carter. But can we survive four years of Hell (or Hill)? A lot of Freepers say we already survived eight years of Clinton, but who wants to go back to that?

[John Lenin]

She will be the end of the US as we know it if she were to steal the election. Mark my words.

[John Lenin]

If she wins it is a fraud election. Than again fraud is the way it is done in Washington State, isn't it ?

[Christian4Bush]

Bump, mate!

[Red Badger]

Good German Beers!........