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. |
Interesting story. I believe i’ve seen all three types right here on FR. Always some convoluted excuse to vote like and for a dem. Have you written the story of the Obama-cons yet? That’s a whole other story even more convoluted than the Hillary-cons. I cast my vote in the Texas primaries yesterday, the last day of early voting, and DID NOT vote for either of those two lib/socialists. Trying to pick candidates i felt would do less harm to Texas and America was tough but i felt pretty good about it.
Isn't this a bit like writing to Santa Claus?
If they support Hillary they are not conservatives.
Premature retreat from Iraq
Evidence of US weakness
Expanded Iranian influence
Iranian nuclear weapons
Possible attack on Israel
Costly attacks on US assets
Possible contamination of US cities
Involvement in Darfur and elsewhere
Interventions without vital national interests
Effective and real increases in taxes
Continued slump in public education
Unrealistic and costly energy mandates
Increased spending on global warming
Universal healthcare incl. 33m illegals
Undercutting drug patents and other companies
Less pharmaceuticals brought to market
Windfall profit taxes and other disincentives
Price controls and resultant key shortages
Trial lawyer suits/shakedowns destroy firms
Job losses from antibusiness legislation/suits
State gay marriage laws extended nationwide
Partial birth abortion and funding promoted
Removal of bankruptcy protections for pro-lifers
Bans and/or restrictive registrations on all guns
Restrictive use provisions on private land
More land designated as national reserves
Increased surveillance/audits of GOP opponents
Corrupt campaign and fundraising practices
Sale of pardons to Friends of Hillary (or Obama)
Criminal prosecution of terrorists, esp. domestic
Catch & release treatment of illegals restored
Elevation by press to untouchable status
Muffled criticism of government initiatives
Increased voter fraud by scuttling ID programs
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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".
ping
1. I think you’re giving Hillary too much credit. I don’t think she’ll win the nomination - even the Dems (some) are sick of her. From what I’m hearing she’s going to drop out Wed if Texas doesn’t go her way. If she drops out now and we win in Nov. she’ll be the presumptive nominee in 2012. If we want to take her out once and for all she needs to get the nomination this year otherwise she’ll be back.
2. Obama will make a worse President than Hillary. They believe the same things, but Obama has the charisma to get it passed through Congress.
I agree with Poe on much of his argument except his main theme. Under no circumstances is Clinton in the position she finds herself on purpose. She's where she is because she underestimated this guy from Chicago and the machine that's backing him. Obama has raised a phenomenal amount of money. When the February numbers come out his total is going to be somewhere North of $185 million.Nothing would please me more than to be wrong about Hillary and her rope-a-dope strategy. Indeed, I pray that I am wrong.
What bothers me, though, is that the Obama "machine" to which you refer does not appear to be independent of Hillary's machine. Both candidates draw support from the "shadow party" of non-profit front groups created and led by George Soros.
Of course, it is possible that Soros betrayed Hillary and threw her overboard in favor of Obama, at some point. Maybe. But that seems a slender reed on which to hang one's hopes.
It seems more likely that the "shadow party" is enacting some sort of elaborate charade. And that worries me very much.
I’m the fourth kind.
I’ll probably vote for Hillary, as McCain already has it, and I’d like to see Hillary have to spend every nickle that her machine has raised on her hideous campaign, just to be sure that she can’t steal the unspent amount, and hide it in Switzerland.
And the Cheshire Cat has a few more months as President..
The Mole Rats are following Oprahs piping and the White Rabbit is late for a very important date..
What the hell is America SMOKING..
I’m certainly not writing hillary off until the fat lady sings. But I wouldn’t underestimate Obama either.
As for our duty to vote, we have been put into an impossible position. Hillary is a menace. Obama is a menace. And McCain is a menace.
All in different ways, but all extremely serious. McCain is a little better than the other two, but the problem is that if he wins it will destroy the party and the conservative movement, and he will be in a stronger position to pass malign legislation than a Democrat would be.
There are no easy answers here. The Republican Party is on course to commit suicide no matter which of the three wins, and perhaps to bring the country down with it, given the illegal amnesty problem and the Islamic problem and the Chinese and Russian problems, not to speak of a looming world-wide economic catastrophe on the horizon.
Our country has its back against the wall, and we have been given three impossible choices.
She hides her diabolic end-game strategies as well as she conceals her uber-Marxism.
Those among us who would vote against (ugh) McCain in order to settle a score with the RNC or the primary voters will regret their shortsightedness as the jackboot of a Hillary regime kicks apart the foundations of our Republic and our way of life.
Excellent and thanks for the ping.
I do not believe that McCain will arrest conservative activists. The Democrats will.
As long as conservatives are free to organize at the grassroots level, there is hope. We don't need a conservative president. We just need a president who will leave us free to organize.
The Minutemen exist because Bush tolerated their existence. The Democrats will not tolerate such groups. They will prosecute conservative activists and throw many of our leaders in jail.
"It seems more likely that the "shadow party" is enacting some sort of elaborate charade. And that worries me very much."Your article is so accurate, thank you for sharing it with us.
Yes, I would like to be on your ping list.
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