Posted on 01/20/2006 3:23:45 PM PST by rdb3
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 5:19 p.m. EST Molly Ivins: I Won't Back Hillary
"I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.”
With that pronouncement, liberal syndicated columnist Molly Ivins begins a blistering column that castigates Hillary and the Democratic Party for failing to take a strong stand on a variety of issues important to liberals like her.
Et tu, Brute?
"Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone,” Ivins writes in her column on CNN.com.
"Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges ...
"There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
"If no one in conventional-wisdom politics has the courage to speak up and say what needs to be said, then you go out and find some obscure junior senator from Minnesota with the guts to do it. In 1968, Gene McCarthy was the little boy who said out loud, ‘Look, the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.’”
Ivins says the majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq is a mistake and the U.S. should get out, and a majority are also in favor of raising the minimum wage, repealing President Bush’s tax cuts, imposing a windfall profits tax on big oil companies and reducing the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.
"That is the center, you fools,” Ivins tells Hillary and the Democrats. "WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?”
For "pragmatic folk” like Hillary, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman, Ivins urges: "Oh come on, people - get a grip on the concept of leadership ...
"Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.”
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This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
The Ol' Hag - Ivins appears to have a molecule of sanity left in her. I'm shocked and awed.
As soon as Thunder Thighs is on the ballot, she sure as heck will!
Go, Molly, Go. Don't stop 'til you have pains down your left side.
No, she has no sanity at all. If she did, she'd allow Hillary to lie to position herself as a moderate, knowing full well that she's not.
If Hillary wins the nomination, Muley will immediately, completely and permanently forget she wrote that column and will promote Hillary as the Best. Nominee. Ever.
She may not vote for Hitlary, but I bet she would sleep with her.
I love it when they eat their own.
WHat was Molly's view on Terri?
Like Adlai Stevenson,
Hubert Humprhey,
Eugene McCarthy,
Michael Dukakis,
Al Gore,
John Kerry,
John Dean,
Tom Daschle
... or that other loser from Missouri whose name escapes me???
Her 15 nano seconds were up last century.
Wow, a major loss for Hildebeast.....wait a minute....Molly Ivins wrote that.....who cares what either one of them says?....no harm, no foul Hildebeast! Don't worry about it.
Liar.
Hillary vs. Molly
Like two scorpions in a bottle, or snakes in a sack.
LOL, You got to be joking.
What "never missed a meal Molly", is mad about is Hillary wasn't on TV yelling to have her tubes unhooked faster!
"Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.”
Barbara (Babs) Streisand?
The bad part is that, even dead, she'd still vote for the Beast.
"Don't throw me in that briar patch! Pleeeeease don't throw me into that briar patch!!"
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