Posted on 03/01/2008 7:15:57 AM PST by Richard Poe
| by Richard Lawrence Poe Friday, February 29, 2008 |
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I ADDRESS this column to that new breed of conservative, the Hillarycon. These are conservatives who support Hillary Clinton. Below I describe the three types of Hillarycon and explain why each is wrong.
TYPE 1: The Innocent Hillarycon
The first type is the most well-meaning, but possibly the most deluded. Innocent Hillarycons view Hillary as a weaker candidate than Obama, and thus seek to help Hillary win the nomination.
They are wrong. Hillary's weakness is an illusion. She is playing rope-a-dope with Obama. By hanging on the ropes, and taking Obama's punches, Hillary saves her strength for the knockout punch.
Rest assured, the knockout will come. No matter how many primaries Obama wins, Hillary will beat him at the convention. Backroom intrigue is her specialty.
Hillary will bully, bribe and blackmail the superdelegates to vote for her. She will claim disqualified delegates from Michigan and Florida. She will steal state delegates through litigation. At the appointed time, Hillary's media operatives will ambush Obama with allegations of corruption, immorality and extremism.
Hillary has powerful patrons in all the right places. She will win the nomination.
The real purpose of Hillary's rope-a-dope is to lull Republicans into complacency. In this, she has largely succeeded.
Conservative talk radio jocks have lost interest in Hillary. On February 11, Sean Hannity suspended his "Stop Hillary Express" campaign, arguing that Obama poses a greater threat. Rush Limbaugh told listeners on February 26, "the longer Hillary can stay in this the better for us." He urged Republicans to register as Democrats and vote for Hillary in the primaries, "to keep that party at war with itself."
Hillary's rope-a-dope has paralyzed conservative book publishers, none of whom are assigning Hillary exposés. They fear she will drop from the race before their books hit the shelves.
"When I get anti-Hillary proposals, I tell them, ‘Just wait and see if she becomes president,’ ’’ says Marji Ross, president of Regnery Publishing. Regnery's 2004 release Unfit for Command torpedoed John Kerry's campaign.
No Unfit for Command will dog Hillary this election season. It is too late to assign such a research-intensive book. Hillary has outmaneuvered the dirt-diggers.
TYPE 2: The Crafty Hillarycon
The second type of Hillarycon supports her for Machiavellian reasons. A Hillary presidency would teach Americans a lesson, they say. Her extremist policies would shock the nation, driving voters into the conservative camp.
Nonsense. This is a formula for suicide. As president, Hillary would liquidate conservatives, unleashing the fury of America's counterterror apparatus against us.
Most vulnerable are volunteer groups like the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which patrols the Mexican border to stop illegal crossings. Minutemen were outraged when President Bush called them "vigilantes". But Bush never hampered their operations. President Hillary would handle them differently. She would declare the Minutemen "domestic terrorists" and send them to Gitmo for waterboarding.
If this sounds farfetched, consider the counterterror policies of the last Clinton regime. Barely a month after Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, Muslim jihadists detonated a bomb beneath the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring thousands. The Clintons responded by declaring war on "domestic terrorists".
Only two days after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing -- on February 28, 1993 -- the Clintons laid siege to the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. New York Governor Mario Cuomo told NBC on March 1 that our biggest security threat was, “Americans killing one another with guns". Attorney General Janet Reno declared on March 13 that her number one priority would be protecting abortion clinics from terror attacks. Then came Project Megiddo, an FBI program targeting rightwing Christians.
TYPE 3: The Spiteful Hillarycon
The third type of Hillarycon supports Hillary out of spite. These are ideological purists whose hatred for President Bush has metastasized into hatred for all things Republican. Since they must vote Democrat or not vote at all, they choose Hillary, claiming she is more "conservative" than the rest.
Spiteful Hillarycons are the worst of the lot, because they are phonies. They know very well that Hillary has not a "conservative" bone in her body. But then, neither have the Spiteful Hillarycons.
What they share with Hillary is anger and vengefulness. They would gladly cast their votes for Mao Tse-Tung, if they thought it would vex President Bush. Their motives are psychological, not political.
This then is the Hillarycon agenda. It is neither a Republican agenda, nor a conservative agenda, nor a winning agenda. It is Hillary's agenda. Surely we can do better than this.
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Richard Lawrence Poe is a contributing editor to Newsmax, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party, co-written with David Horowitz. |
Mr. Poe has captured the truth about this election and hilary, you will want to read this article.
Thank you for the ping, I am glad that I read the article.
The day before the Iowa cacuses, I was able to get on a talk show to ask a question of Ron Paul. First, I praised her for his vigorous defense of the Constitution. Then, I told him I had a foreign policy question.
Q: Knowing what we know about the policy of the mullahs and Ahmadinejad relative to Israel, if North Korea sent a ship to Iran with nuclear missiles, would you either board and capture or sink the ship?
A: Why would we?
That told me all I needed to know about Ron Paul. He is Unfit for Command.
Are you seriously trying to help improve upon Dick Morris’s “often wrong” political predictions?
This is a fantastic article... not so much for its message, but for the wealth of linked information comntained therein.
Conservatives who vote for Hillary! are just messing with the democrat party, nothing more.
Granted, McCain is far from the ideal GOP candidate, but seems significantly better than the other two.
Destroy the party? The GOP has been very resiliant over 150 years, and has not been "destroyed" despite such non-conservative nominees as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. This is not the first time, even in relatively recent history, that this is happening. And surely an "in" party holding the White House is less likely to be "destroyed" than an "out" party.
McCain "in a stronger position to pass malign legislation than a Democrat"? That depends to a large extent on the makeup of the next Congress, but a 'Rat Congress and a 'Rat president figures to be the most malign circumstance.
This reminds me of 1968-1969 and the SDS split into RYMI-RYMII and the Weathermen.
There is a pathology on the Left that always results in internecine warfare and divisive splits. Likely this is because they are each after personal power, rather than pure ideologues. As each movement/revolution grows and ages, there are individuals who do not get what they think they deserve/are entitled to. These people harbor grudges, ally ad hoc against whomever does have power and counter-revolutions are born.
My husband and I got out of the Left totally in the 1970s, but we were around for 1968-1969. We keep saying to each other that this year’s Democrat fight reminds us strongly of 40 years ago. Many of the most active young Leftists are nihilists and they will at least try to bring about anarchy at the convention. They call themselves R68 for “Recreate ‘68”.
Remember: while far from stupid and very, very rich, they just are not that talented. Look at how much has already been made public from the past 40 years relative to this campaign, for example. Talented people would have covered their tracks a lot better, IMO. I believe there is a chance they will blow it once again. No one thought Nixon would win. No one thought Reagan would win. The Left thought they had defeated Bush twice. The leaders are extremely arrogant.
The mass of American voters are pragmatic. Most are secular. A majority are not suicidal. I do know sane Democrats who are not buying the hype and who also are not feminists. I was hearing ardent Greens putting McCain forth as a possible POTUS over a year and a half ago. McCain (whom I do not like, but for whom I will vote)only needs a percentage of the usual Dem voters, especially if another percentage stays home.
Vote fraud is my major fear this fall.
Yes, Hillary Conservatives, a mystery worthy the pen of a Poe!
Though I have some question as to whether there is such an animal as a “Hillarycon,” thanks for keeping the troops on the alert for her. It ain’t over until it’s over!
“I’m with you. When my state’s primary FINALLY comes up in May - I will vote a straight Republican ticket - but I will vote for Ron Paul instead of John McCain. Ron Paul is the most conservative candidate still on the ballot.
I will not submit, but will send a message with my vote. McCain must be stopped before the convention - it is still not too late to get rid of him.”
I can certainly understand folks voting for someone other than McCain in the primary elections. I voted for Romney once Fred was gone.
I realize there is a slight chance that McCain will not reach the 1,191 delegate number but I guess the results of next Tuesday’s primary elections will let us know.
My concern is that so many folks are saying they will not vote for McCain in November if he IS the nominee. I hope those folks realize that four years of McCain would not do near the damage to our country that one year of Obama or Hillary would.
Ping!
If she's loaning her sinking campaign money, how is she going to have anything worth stealing for Switzerland? Certainly Bubba and she have already bilked millions outta their supporters and sycophants.
Nicely done.
Thank you for the ping justice, I posted in #54.
Thank you Phil, I received several pings on this.
Good graphic of ol’ Medusa head and Osama-bama
I don't know if we can beat an Obama/Clinton ticket, but I think we could beat a Clinton/Obama ticket.
But then there's the "beat the evil you know" strategy.
Thank you Spirit, I had 4 pings on Richard’s good thread.
You didn’t answer?
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