Posted on 12/27/2005 9:26:39 PM PST by presidio9
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for the war in Iraq has outraged many liberal activists in the Democratic Party, who are warning of retribution, including a primary challenge to her re-election campaign next year.
Some liberal activists are angry over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's stand on the Iraq war, and are supporting a 2006 primary challenger. But the activists are in the same sort of political bind that liberals found themselves in a decade ago when Bill Clinton defied liberal orthodoxies: struggling to bring meaningful pressure to bear on a politician who is cherished by many traditional Democrats.
The frustration on the left toward Mrs. Clinton, the junior senator from New York, has been building for months, particularly as opinion has turned against the war and some Democrats in Congress have begun to pressure President Bush to begin a withdrawal of American troops.
Recently, the anger erupted into public view, with antiwar activists publicly protesting against the senator and, perhaps more significantly, an antiwar candidate emerging to challenge her in the Democratic primary next year.
That challenger, Jonathan Tasini, a longtime labor advocate, has the support of Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar protester who lost her son in the war and who camped for weeks outside Mr. Bush's Texas ranch, demanding to meet with him. Mrs. Sheehan has been critical of Mrs. Clinton.
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Nay, as before, no matter how a Clinton kicks the hard-left in the nads, they will always come crawling back to kiss her ring and lick her pumps.
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All bets are off after we are again hit hard here, particularly if it's a flattening of an American City by a terrorist NUKE.
HILLARY awaits her Signal event, patiently.
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She knows the anti-war activists aren't an issue because there's not enough to affect her base, just enough to influence the NYT.
Muleteam1
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You're preach'in to the choir here. Let's convert some sensible moderates of the true danger of them.
It's a sad state of affair for the Democrats that among their ranks there are more brain-dead sychophants than hard-left ideologues.
Well-said. Hillary Clinton is without convictions. She is souless. Every position is a cynical calculation. The sheeple love her.
I suspect a lot of the folks here who consider themselves to be sensible and moderate have simply not lived long, or far, enough to have been ravaged by a liberal wolf in conservative sheep's clothing. If they are not terminally immature, only time and experience can teach them their enemy means business. May God help us survive until lessons are learned.
Indeed!
Also, your comment about the Democratic Party being made up of brain-dead sychophants was excellent. Someone on FR in the past week posted a great satire about a conservative farmer living by an old Democrat. Each knew the other's political leanings so discussions over the fence were usually about the weather. One day the old Democrat farmer started to spout off some derogatory rhetoric he had heard on his television about President Bush. When confronted by the conservative on each of the issues, the old Democrat immediately changed the discussion back to the weather. The story reminded me that Democrats are like cotton farmers. Many raise cotton simply because their grandpappy did. :) Hope you're not a cotton farmer.
I guess the question is how does the Republican Party recruit these mindless zombies? Or do we really want them?
Muleteam1
Thanks for the ping!
Hillary knows that she can take her liberal base for granted, because they have no practical alternative. A majority of Democrats prefer a candidate who will win rather than a candidate who is ideologically pure. The very vocal hard-left moonbats may insist on ideological purity first, but they will hold their noses and vote for Hillary in the general election after she wins the primary contest (both for N.Y. Senate, and later for President).
Meanwhile the far-left's attacks on her merely help to persuade middle-of-the-road voters that Hillary might be trusted on national security issues. This is the best thing that could happen to a Clinton since Bill's "Sister Soulja" moment.
Better face it, Hillary's strategy may very well work. Let's hope that President Hillary Clinton pleasantly surprises us after she's elected in 2008.
No way she will be called out on it way before the election, you think everyone knows Kerry as a flip-flopper? Better get ready to see those cankles floppin'
These people are like junkies who get ticked off at their connection. They're all talk. They have no place to go and they will realize that sometime along the way.
The GOP needs to be true to its conservative principles. I don't mean there can't be some wiggle room on some issues (every majority party has always appealed to its base, and has possessed the terrority in the center as well), but conservative principles need to the driving vision of the party. Conservatism is based upon reality -- the reality of the way people operate and are motivated, and the reality in the way the moral universe operates. Leftist ideology (my preferred term, because I believe that the classic liberalism of FDR, JFK and LBJ is long dead) is an escape from reality, and tends to take on some of the charactistics of mental illness. As long as most people in the country still desire to be anchored in reality, the GOP, and conservatism, will do fine. What's scary is that about 48% of the electorate appears to be deeply rooted in fantasy, with little hope of recovery.
What bothers me is we seem to be losing our anchors on realty. I continue to be amazed how many Americans believe that the Federal government can hide evidence of alien crash sites for over a half century but cannot keep a secret about anything else. Blurry photos and encounters that are shrouded by the dark of night or by sleepyheaded memories do nothing to lend logic to this subject. Some of what we are seeing in the world of the liberals is simply paranoia and schizophrenia.
And yes, LBJ is where I broke with my immature fantasies and decided to grow up.
Muleteam1
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