Posted on 06/01/2006 9:26:15 AM PDT by Mia T
THE POLITICS OF DUMPING HILLARY
Their reputation for revenge, specifically.
It precedes them: The wickedly timely IRS audits (where is that unredacted Barrett Report already, huh?), purloined FBI files, trashed reputations, threats, physical intimidation, and, oh yes, the deaths. It matters not one whit whether each and every item on this list is true. That it could be true is sufficient.
So it is not surprising that it took the better part of a year for the Left to summon the courage to dump hillary. Dumping hillary is not a reversible act, you see. Dump hillary and you're on her hit list. For life. Yours... which won't be that long if hillary retakes the White House and everything on that list is <<shudder>> true....
So dumping hillary is not your ordinary finger-in-the-air, go-with-the-flow tactical maneuver. It is a lifetime commitment.
Chris Matthews, David Geffen, Mike McCurrey and Leon Panetta were on the front lines making that commitment. They had the guts to dump hillary before dumping hillary was de rigueur.
It is not that they understood hillary clinton is a dud and everyone else on the Left did not. Everyone knows hillary clinton is a dud. It is that they put loyalty to party above loyalty to the clintons, and had the courage to act on that loyalty.
But now that "hillary clinton is not electable" is the conventional wisdom and dumping hillary is the Democrat plat du jour, all the weak-kneed, Bush-hating Leftists--which is virtually everyone to the left of John McCain (and would include John McCain except for the fact that he trounces her in the polls)--will join the dump-hillary ranks and the dump-hillary movement will grow exponentially from now on....
GEFFEN UNLOADS ON HILLARY: 'SHE CAN'T WIN'
Sen. Hillary Clinton should not count on help from Hollywood mogul David Geffen in her possible run for the White House.
Geffen, who was a generous supporter and pal of Bill Clinton when he was president, trashed Hillary's prospects last night during a Q&A at the 92nd St. Y in New York City.
"She can't win, and she's an incredibly polarizing figure," the billionaire Democrat told his audience. "And ambition is just not a good enough reason."
Lloyd Grove reports in fresh editions of the NY DAILY NEWS the audience broke with "hearty applause" over Geffen's comments.
Developing...
J. Bradford DeLong
Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks.
Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down?
Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.
G. K. Chesterton
... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.
These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.
Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."
It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."
Mia T, 10.02.05
December 7, 1941+64
Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive.
We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?
In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?
Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.
What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.
COMPLETE LETTER
KARL ROVE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: MOI
HEAR HILLARY, CHRIS MATTHEWS ET AL.
by Mia T, 2.28.06
BEHEARTED KARL adapted from ilovekarlrove.com graphic
eputation, reputation, reputation. The clintons' reputation is the immortal part of them and what makes them especially bestial, to paraphrase Shakespeare.
DRUDGE REPORT
Thu Feb 17 2005 23:13:00 ET
Clinton Administration Veteran:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."
My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran
Hillary Clinton?
Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man?
Thank you, Gavin McNett, for your tribute to the incomparable Tammy Wynette. (TAMMY WYNETTE, 1942-1998)
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)
IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY
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AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRORE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Dear Concerned Americans,
December 7, 1941+64
Mia T
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005
by Mia T, 11.20.05
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
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Thanks Mia, the beast may finally be sent to the political crypt.
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thx. :)
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Some of us realize just how dangerous this chick is ... but I'm not a bit worried about her lust for the White House. The powers that be will not burn all that cash in a pile just to say they want her to be the nominee...
For the reality, as revealed by CSPAN over and over, is that Hillary is utterly revolting on TV ... when she is making any kind of motivational speech.
The Prez is a pitchman, first and foremost, a very fancy used car sales type that will be on TV constantly, not to be crude about it. And she will cause people to want to turn off the TV ..which means advirtisers will be in trouble as the 'buy programs' driven into peoples heads will be muted. She is sunk and on the bottom before the prop wash is even a dream.
And thus, red necks will be deeply motivated to vote in large numbers should she actually attempt this. The TV people know this, the Democrat money bags know this ... and She hasn't done them enough favors which warrant burning that much cash.
All that is BESIDES the fact she has the characteristics of a black widow.
Good stuff Mia....
All of that SOUNDS good, but don't put any money on it. If you have to bet on who represents the dems in 08, put your money on Hillary. Of the plausible dem candidates, Hillary is the only one who kills people who get in her way; that overrides a lot of other factors.
People had been thinking of Thomas Dewey as the next President of the United States for so long that they decided it was time for a change.
Hillary has been, in the event of Republican wins in 2000 and 2004, the Democrat front runner for 2008 since 1998. She is far too unattractive, in every possible sense of the word, a vessel to hold that much hope for that long.
"All of that SOUNDS good, but don't put any money on it. If you have to bet on who represents the dems in 08, put your money on Hillary. Of the plausible dem candidates, Hillary is the only one who kills people who get in her way; that overrides a lot of other factors."
Pretty much my opinion. Now they'll cut some sort of deal with the mafia (afterall, they're close with the various drug cartels) to stuff the ballot boxes on election, ala Joe Kennedy and The Mob in the 1960 election.
DC mutual protection racket writ large. We've got to get rid of all the professional pols.
But we mustn't be too hasty; wouldn't want to wind up replacing Rs with infinitely more corrupt, inept and deadly Ds.
BTTT
I agree with you. I originally wrote this in 1999:
In Act II, rabid anti-clinton voters, roughly 33% of the U.S. populace according to as-yet-unpodded pollsters, become increasingly aware that they are disappearing in droves and being replaced by alien pod replicas that have their physical attributes but lack all anti-clinton affect. If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time. Alien Abductions, Flying Saucers + Other Weird Phenomena, c.1992-2000
by Mia T, January 3, 2006
THE ALIENS
Mia T, June 9, 1999
thanx gobucks. interesting take. ;)
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