Posted on 07/31/2005 12:01:51 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Hillary Clinton wants to be the darling of the left and the candidate of the center, and why not? More than any other Democrat, save one—her husband—she knows what it takes to win, and she fully and completely comprehends the opposition.
Liberals went ballistic this week when Clinton called for a ceasefire among Democrats at a much ballyhooed appearance before the DLC, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council that helped elect her husband president. Clinton’s “Rodney King Moment,” is all about 2008, says a former John Kerry adviser: “What she’s saying is, ‘Why can’t we all get along and support me?’”
Clinton didn’t single out liberals, and her intent might have been more ecumenical in urging all wings of the party to turn their guns on the “hard-right ideology in Washington” instead of each other. But her presence at the DLC convention in Columbus, Ohio, spoke volumes. It said to the left that this is where she is planting her flag for the presidential race. And what she’s doing now is taking care of whatever perceived weaknesses she has, as well as those of the Democratic Party. She shouldn’t trim her principles, but she has the leeway to defy the liberal stereotypes. As a progressive in a country where half or more of voters are reflexively conservative, she has to find ideas that surprise people and grab their attention if she’s going to break through as a national candidate.
This kind of intraparty warfare is familiar ground for Democrats. Hillary’s comments were almost identical to the sentiments Bill Clinton voiced some 15 years ago at a DLC event when there was a dispute with the Democratic National Committee. Having the vast left-wing conspiracy after you isn’t a bad thing in a political climate where the liberal label is problematic.....
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What about all the stuff she ripped off when she left the White House last time?
What about Juanita?
Hillary, you want to convince people that you are a "hawk?" Simple - just put out the word that Democratic chicks admire soldiers!
She's my man.
She will drive these Rhino's from office and make way for a new conservative take over. Things need to get worse before they will get better.
I won't vote for a party that doesn't solve the illegal problem.
Love that bumper sticker!
"Fast forward to 2005 and the most controversial first lady of modern times is a sedate senator from New York talking about finding “common ground” with abortion foes. Like Moses leading her party to the Promised Land, Hillary is treading a path to Red-State America. She may be the darling of the liberal left, but she won in New York by appealing to upstate voters who are traditionally Republican...." - Clift
Factor in the media's bias and acceptance of her "oh-i'm-a-centrist-moderate-because-i-say-i'm-a-centrist-moderate", and ouila -- Hillary the Moderate.
To Eleanor Clift anybody to the right of Josef Stalin is a centrist. On S.397, the bill to stop frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, Hitlery voted NO, along with other gun-grabbing hoplophobic moonbats like Schumer, Kennedy, Kerry, and Boxer. She's not a centrist by any stretch of the imagination.
The sad thing is that a lot of people will be bamboozled by Hitlery's phony march to the right.
Consider the fact that the media never covered the moderate BS from her. Who else would they allow to slide under the radar
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