THE ACCIDENTAL APTNESS OF HILLARY CLINTON'S 'PRESIDENTIAL' MAKEOVER

12.11.06 | Mia T

[Nancee]

BUMP!!!

[freema]

I know know what we should all plan to be next Halloween. Oughta scare the left right out of all the little kiddies.

[Mia T]

;)

The Wicked Witch of the West running for president will scare all the kiddies' mommies.

 

Now fast forward to October 11, 2005. Susan Estrich, alignments adjusted upward--ALL alignments--is on Hannity and Colmes. She is there to huckster The Case for Hillary Clinton, ²⁴ both the book and candidate.

Estrich's spiel turns her recent dire warning to the Democrats ("The clintons are sucking up all the air. Get them off the stage!" )²⁵ on its literal head.²⁶ (Air? Who needs air when you have a clinton?)

ICKES + ESTRICH PROVIDE ROADMAP FOR HILLARY DEFEAT (oops!)

Susan Estrich attempts to tie the fate of all women to the fate of the hillary clinton candidacy in a cynical attempt to get the women's vote.

She argues that hillary clinton is the best chance, probably the only chance, for a woman president in our lifetime.

The false and demeaning argument and offensive gender bias aside, someone ought to clue in Susan Estrich. Gender feminism requires as its token a functional female.

So why is Susan Estrich making such a transparently spurious and insulting argument? She isn't that dumb.

For the same reason Harold Ickes is fulminating on C-SPAN.

The election of 2004 confirmed missus clinton's worst fears:
9/11 and the clintons' willful, utter failure for eight years to confront terrorism) were transformative. They caused a political realignment--for all practical purposes permanent--that is not good news for clinton, or for the Democrats, generally.

The white woman, the only real swing voter, the demographic the Democrats MUST get in order to win the White House, has turned red.


Next installment...
THE ROADMAP FOR DEFEATING HILLARY

In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, a journalistic consensus emerged to explain George W. Bush's victory. Despite the sluggish economy and deteriorating situation in Iraq, voters supported Bush primarily because of his values. One prominently featured exit poll question showed "moral values" to be the most important issue for voters, ahead of terrorism, Iraq, and the economy. Backlash against the Massachusetts court ruling allowing gay marriage and attraction of Bush's appeals to Christian faith helped bring out socially conservative voters and cement Bush's second term. This explains why Bush won Ohio, for example, where an anti-gay marriage proposal was on the ballot. However compelling this story might be, it is wrong.

Instead, Bush won because married and white women increased their support for the Republican ticket....

In this article I briefly account for the factors behind Bush's rise in the state-by-state popular vote between 2000 and 2004. This is not the same as identifying who elected Bush. That sort of analysis would put responsibility on white men since they voted 61-38 for Bush and comprise almost half of the active electorate. Instead, I focus on what changed between 2000 and 2004. In this view, it is white women who are responsible because they showed more aggregate change.

Identifying a cause for this shift looks for an explanation also in things that changed in the past four years. For example, John Kerry was not exactly Al Gore, so differences between Bush's two opponents could be a factor. But I suggest that such differences are dwarfed by a much larger intervention: the attacks of September 11. Turnout was up in 2004 because the perceived heightening of the stakes after 9-11 and because of intense competition between the candidates in a small number of battleground states. Higher turnout also appears to have helped Bush slightly. But it was the shift of married white women from the Democratic camp to the Republican camp that gave him the edge in 2004.

Post Election 2004: An Alternative Account of the 2004 Presidential Election
BarryC.Burden
Harvard University
The Forum, Volume2, Issue 42004 Article2
burden@fas.harvard.edu

COMPLETE ARTICLE

WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN.
by Mia T, 12.10.05

[7thson]

When I first read this, I misread Aptness for Apeness. 8-)

[Mia T]

We mustn't relinquish control to the self-absorbed, self-serving DC crowd (professional pols of both stripes as well as old media). We must take control of our own destiny. We must do the hard lifting ourselves.

Today we have the resources. We must band together to defeat the clintons. We can smash them. Utterly. All we have to do is stick together, focus on the goal, and work hard.

[Mia T]

understandable. ;)

[Mia T]

LINK CORRECTION

[Mia T]

thanx :)

[Nancee]

"We mustn't relinquish control to the self-absorbed, self-serving DC crowd (professional pols of both stripes as well as old media). We must take control of our own destiny. We must do the hard lifting ourselves."

Absolutely!!!

[Mia T]

thanx for highlighting bump :)

[Mia T]

thanx :)

[Nancee]

:-)

[Nancee]

You're quite welcome!

[Mia T]

:)

[Nancee]

Hi Again!

"Life by the inch is a cinch; by the yard, it's hard!"

Just thought I'd throw in this little bit of wisdom I learned in college!

Nancee

[Mia T]

excellent thx :)

[Mia T]

"hillary clinton's 'presidential' makeover" as in "makeover president"
MULLIGAN bump.

The twofer construct, transposed to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, is now poised to retake power. A self-replicating, Constitution-specific pathogen, the clinton nano-presidency, post-9/11, is a danger that we cannot -- we must not -- abide.

NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton
by Mia T, 7.31.05

 

[Nancee]

BUMP!!!

[Mia T]

thank you, Nancee. :)

[jla]

Back earlier than planned on account of a (I think) infection in my gums. I held in there for a week but had to get back and see my dentist tomorrow morn.
Great time we had in Galway. My first time in the county, and in the city of Tribes, (my companion's first visit to the verdant isle - she loved it), and it was spectacular. I couldn't understand why they built a shopping mall around an ancient wall though. Found an antique furniture shop in Galway City that I might have a piece or two shipped over here from.
Irish Thatcherite...Was thinking of venturing up to Mayo until I saw a picture on the news of a flooded Mayo road where the top of the road sign was barely seen. A Galway local advised that summer was better to visit Mayo and Donegal. I even stayed away from Connemara until a later date, (maybe this Aug or Sept). Galway though wasn't as cold for December as I thought it would be. Very windy at times though, the Corrib looked tempting if one was a rafting enthusiast.

And I'll say it yet again...Gráinne Seoige is the best looking gal in all of Ireland. Seoige and O'Shea - my new favorite Irish TV show :^)
(Though it could do with less O'Shea and more Seoige).

Mia T...I hope you'll excuse this intrusion onto your thread. At least the thread is bumped. :^)