I made polite small talk, thanked him for dropping by, walked him out of City Hall, and then washed my hands in the bathroom. He ultimately lost the primary to Jennifer Granholm, now the governor-elect here in Michigan.
A few months later I see this guy Bonior on TV, denouncing the United States while on enemy territory in Iraq.
I normally split my ticket when voting because I know certain people who are democrats running for local office. They are nominal democrats who have intensely conservative values, a common happenstance where I live. After Bonior committed treason I decided enough was enough and voted the straight Republican ticket on my ballot.....
I know some stupid Democrats and some stupid Communists but they are mutually exclusive.
Bill Clinton is evil. He sold the soul of the Democratic Party to special interests whose interests were self-serving and without staying power. The Democratic leadership became Clinton clones with all of his baggage. What this election has shown quite clearly is that without his hands on the levers Clinton has no value anymore...he is just an empty suit....he was always an empty suit but most Democrats in 1991 were too afraid of President Bush to take him on. Clinton got the money and the crooks took over the Donkey.
If those of us in the liberal wing of the party can't get the party back we have no one to blame this time except ourselves for letting the charlatans bamboozle the public for more than 15 years...if we have another bozo who wants to smooze at Hilton Head this winter he better not expect to win more than a brass hat formerly used for a spitoon.
If we can't dismantle the Clinton 'mystique' now then we will never do so. Hilary and Bill forced Andrew Cuomo out of the race for Governor and hand picked Carl McCall. Frankly speaking I like Carl and he is a good man and a decent human being...and he was told not to wrap the Clinton mantle about him...but the Clintons draped themselves anyway. Would Andrew won against Pataki? No...and Carl would have done better without Carville/Clinton/Chucky.
That said this is a great opportunity for the Democrats to regroup and stand up for what gave us years of governance in the tradition of Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey. We can still represent the working class even though 'labor' is dressing pretty well these days.
Why did we get our butts kicked? We deserved it for pretending the Clinton years were valuable. Payback has arrived and it will cleanse the party of the despicable trash that litters our halls. This was good medicine for the Democrats and we will recover and restore some dignity to the Donkey. We have some old fashioned Democrats who have managed to savage the Illinois Republican Crime Syndicate and if the old guard like the Daleys, Cuomos can forget they ever slept with the Clinton gang we will come out of this very well...Tom Harkin should replace Dippy Daschle and if Nancy Pelosi gets to be Minority Leader then I want an invitation to the cat fight cause the loser will be Hilary...marketh my words. And pray with me that my wishful thinking is rewarded.