DREAM ON, DEMOCRATS

Sierra Times ^ | 10/21/2005 | Mark Outland

[FerdieMurphy]

With hysterical glee, Democrats believe they smell blood around the Bush Administration and Republicans in general.

Admittedly, at first glance, the situation does appear bleak for the Republicans: dwindling support for the Iraq war, Tom Delay's indictment and arrest, Bill Frist's insider trading investigation, the Harriet Miers rupture, and polls that show a generic vote would favor Democrats over Republicans in 2006 by 11%. Oh, to be a Democrat, bolstered by such news after years of humiliating defeat at the polls!

Unfortunately for Democrats, none of this seems to be rubbing off in their favor. According to a recent national poll, only 32% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party. Hardly the resounding paradigm shift that the Dem's are counting on to take back the House and Senate next year, or win the White House a couple years later. But desperate people often cling to desperate hopes.

Enter Hillary Clinton.

Many Democrats, especially the Hollywood leftists, believe Clinton is the last, best hope for presidential success in 2008. Even Republicans like Dick Morris, who personally can't stand Hillary, predict that she has a good chance of winning, especially if there is no perceptible improvement in the Iraq situation and if Republicans do not offer up an equally well-known candidate. But the fact that many Democrats see Clinton as the best they've got, or at least the only really viable choice, is indicative of how desperate and empty the party has become.

Nevertheless, the political triangulation around Hillary is astounding, and typically Clintonian. With psychophantic predictability, the old-stream media and Hollywood are pulling out the stops to promote her. This is certainly because she is immensely popular with the chablis-sipping leftist elite, and possibly because there are some in the party who pragmatically recognize the dearth of potential candidates even slightly palatable to the wide American electorate.

In any event, her support among these elites is undeniably widespread. Democratic strategist and commentator Susan Estrich, who just a couple years ago predicted that Hillary could never win the presidency because she was America's most divisive politician, is now pimping Clinton as the probable next president. Several former Clinton aides, including the recently disgraced Sandy Berger, have signed up to provide "technical assistance" to ABC TV's Tuesday night fantasy "Commander-in-Chief".

The New York Daily News reports that Clinton's operatives see the the show as a barometer of how Hillary might fare in 2008. These socially and politically insular Democrats, especially in Hollywood and New York City, honestly believe that Clinton has widespread appeal and popularity. And why not? Everybody they know loves her.

The truth may not be so gilded, or as optimistic. In fact, there are signs emerging that point to a rough road for Clinton, even among members of her own party. This no more true than among the rabid Bush-hating anti-Iraq War factions, which have emerged as a mainstream component of an ever left-drifting party, not to mention the biggest source of Democratic fundraising in recent memory.

It is from here, among groups like MoveOn.org, Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan supporters, that the real power base in the party steadily grows. These groups have made it clear that Clinton's refusal to dramatically condemn the war in Iraq, or call for the return of American troops immediately, will cost her support, at least in the short term.

Shrewd politicians like Ted Kennedy, who has effectively aligned himself with the more vocal Bush-hating groups, both in his associations and his words, recognizes this dynamic. That may explain why he recently said he will not support Clinton in 2008, in the likely event John Kerry runs again.

Kennedy may be a slurring, womanizing, cowardly drunk, but he is not stupid: he knows that it is Kerry, not Hillary, who is more likely to benefit from the support of the angry left and their piles of money. After all, Kerry was able to do this in 2004. Even Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn.org's resident lackey, is urging fellow Democrats not to support "pro-war" Hillary, accusing her of "sounding like Rush Limbaugh". Ouch.

But Estrich says that Hillary has the benefit of being well-liked among Democrats, like her husband Bill, and unlike Al Gore and John Kerry. However, in the same article two years ago, she said that many women, including Democratic women, don't like her at all, and that the more Democrats talked up Hillary, the more money flowed into the coffers of the Republican Party. Estrich has obviously concluded that any Democrat prospect, even one she has personally identified as unable to appeal to a broad range of voters, is better than no Democrat at all. And there lies the problem for Estrich and the rest of her party.

Most Republican strategists believe that a Hillary presidential run will render results more illustrative of Estrich's former predictions, i.e. a boon for Republican fundraisers and crushing defeat for Democrats. Hillary would certainly ignite a huge bon-fire of repellent disgust beneath the Republican base. If the Republicans nominate Condi Rice, who by many accounts would eat Hillary alive in a head-to-head intellectual matchup, and with Hillary's base confined to elites, the Democrats might just end up wishing they had run John Kerry again.

At least, then, the humiliating Democratic defeat would not come as a total surprise.

[Beth528]

when you try to please everyone you usually wind up pleasing no one.


You are right!!

[libs_kma]

"This stuff about Hillary having trouble with the crazies is a rope-a-dope story. They know that she doesn't mean what she says as soon as she says it."

Since the DUFU's came along I don't have to swim in the DU cesspool to catch a laugh or two much anymore. But every once in awhile I'll stick a toe in and it is true that a lot of DUmmies, which are the kook base for sure, don't like Hill-da-beast or her chances to win.

IMO, the beast would get spanked in a national election so I hope they do run her. And contrary to Dick Morris' assertions, it won't even take a Condi Rice to beat her. Condi, is so much more intelligent than the "smartest woman in the world"(excuse me while I vomit), that she would probably beat the beast hands down, but I'd rather see someone more socially conservative than Condi get the nod.

[Buffettfan]

Let's see now. In 2004 the dems nominate an antiwar radical named John Kerry who they tried to pass off as a war hero and expected us to believe it. In 2008 they want to nominate Hillary Clinton, one of the most polarizing fugues in American politics today and they want us to accept her as a viable candidate for president. This is proof positive that they cannot be trusted with the national security of this country.

[Thebaddog]

The big question is going to be who runs against her for sure. McCain would lose, IMO, because he is HillaryLite and he'll cause a lot of voters to sit out the election on the conservative side. Allen looks interesting and I am curious about who else is a serious possibility.

[Mia T]

... when Hillary speaks to a national audience, her poll numbers tend to go down. --Thebaddog

Have you noticed that hillary clinton doesn't speak in public at all?

SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor

(...and who in heaven's name is writing missus clinton's speeches anyway?)

by Mia T, 8.03.05


(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
MAD hillary series #5
WHY MISSUS CLINTON IS DANGEROUS
FOR THE CHILDREN
FOR AMERICA
FOR THE WORLD

They turned our bridge to the 21st century into a tunnel back into the 19th century. Back us out of that Republican tunnel, fill it in, go back across the bridge.... We'll have a giant celebration when we come back to Columbus in 2020. There's nothing more wonderful than making dreams come true.

hear hillary clinton
address to the Democratic Leadership Council
Columbus, Ohio
7.31.05

issus clinton is a dud.

I could say she has all of bill clinton's baggage and none of his charm, except I don't find bill clinton charming. What she lacks, in my view, is lubricant. Snake oil. She grates.

It's more than simple dislike. You don't want to see her; and you definitely don't want to hear her.

 

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[Thebaddog]

I have, but I hope that there enough recordings of her screeching to the faithful to pass around.

[George W. Bush]

With psychophantic predictability, the old-stream media and Hollywood...

A writer that seems unaware of the proper spelling of sycophant probably shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Mia T]

CLICK on the 'Schema Pinocchio movie' link in the above image or here.

[bertmerc1]

These groups have made it clear that Clinton's refusal to dramatically condemn the war in Iraq, or call for the return of American troops immediately, will cost her support, at least in the short term.

But they will vote for her in the end and she does have a good possibility of winning, unfortunately.

[NHResident]

If Hillary runs in a national election - the treatment she gets from the national media (Public TV, commercial TV, cable, NYT, LATIMES, Boston Glop, pundits, etc.) will make the support they gave Kerry look like an attack by rabid dogs. With McCain-Feingold still in effect, the GOP 'leadership' wandering around in circles, beating each other with clubs, and W showering love and praise on Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry and assorted RINOs - it will be a major battle to even get opposition votes admitted to let alone counted.

[manwiththehands]

These socially and politically insular Democrats, especially in Hollywood and New York City, honestly believe that Clinton has widespread appeal and popularity. And why not? Everybody they know loves her.

I wouldn't go that far. It's more likely that they don't love Hillary as much as they would hate just about any Republican.

I'm not sold on the idea that Hillary would not have a chance. This guy talks like Kerry might have another chance. I'm still troubled by the fact that Bush beat Kerry by only 3% of the votes.

[Thebaddog]

Thanx. It's in the files now.

[IndyTiger]

I'm not sold on the idea that Hillary would not have a chance.

Me neither. And if the GOP splits over immigration or another issue, Hillary stands as the candidate to beat in a three-way race. Bill Clinton won in '92 with 43% of the popular vote, and don't think the Clinton crowd has forgotten this.

[Mia T]

Another factor. Morris became rabidly pro-Bush after 9/11.
He had first-hand knowledge of the clintons' utter failure to confront terrorism.
He understands that America cannot survive another clinton presidency.


WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?


BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA


NEWT: CLINTON COMMITTED ONE OF WORST CRIMES, ENDANGERED COUNTRY, IF HIT ABDULLAH UP FOR CASH


Listen to this and ask yourself if America Ever Had the Remotest Chance Under a clinton to Avoid 9/11
(To paraphrase Einstein: "The unleashed power of terrorism has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.")


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans

[Hadean]

These wacko leftists will more than likely vote for her if she is the one on the ticket at the end of the day.

[308MBR]

I'm afraid if another "compassionate conservative" with their big spending ways, or a "moderate Republican" pro abortion gun grabber is the nominee is nominated, the GOP may get a few dimes to finance another RINO fraud, but a significant portion of the base may stay home or skip some lines on election day.

[Libloather]

I'm a chile of the 60's

[308MBR]

Whoops! I'm so afraid we're going to have Hillary in office January 2009, my sin-tax took a deduction.

[freekitty]

I am tired of making the politicians and entertainment industry rich off our backs.

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

You really nailed it. Libs benefit most when people are at each others' throats...white against black, rich against poor, old against young - when people are most upset and antagonistic with each other, the left rub their collective hands in glee.