[dirtboy]

Frantic Democrats keep calling up the bona fide charisma of Bill Clinton. In the fag end of the campaign he made a late-night appearance with Hillary at a heaving downtown club, Lotus, to try to throw a last-minute life jacket to the drowning New York gubernatorial candidate, Carl McCall. The former president’s silver head swivelled like a Klieg light at the sardined young money crowd who were partying to the appropriate Clintonian anthem of rapper Nelly’s Hot in Herre.

They went berserk when Bill went into his familiar hound-dog political jam. “Lemme tell ya all somethin’ ’bout politics” (pause, roars, screams, yelps) “an’ how many points ah was behind at the same time right before ah won” (whistles, foot stomps, fainting fits).

Beside him, Hillary’s pants suits were pressed to kill. But not till 2008.

When I started reading this article, I kinda figured this is where it would end up.

[Burkeman1]

It really is just funny! Clinton's playbook was used all throughout these midterm elections! And they lost big! And who get's the blame? Daschle and Gephardt- and rightly so. But they were just executing Clinton's style. It is Clinton who is most responsible for the loss on Tuesday but the Democrats are utterly clueless about this reality and Clinton- once again- will step over the political corpses of many defeated Democrats and be embraced again by the Party (like a battered wife embraces her abuser over and over again) as the leader.

What the Democrats don't realize is that Clinton is a LIABILITY and always has been even as President. The myth of Clinton as a "political genius" is so ingrained into the Democrat faithful (see Democratic Underground) that simple facts escape them: Clinton presided over the loss of the house in 94', during his reign 300 state and nationally elected Democrats defected to the GOP, he was never elected by a majority, and is a polarizing figure that has a full third of the country that hates his very existence and will turn out to vote against any candidate that appears with him no matter what. And while in office he signed off on major Republican polcies like welfare reform and enacted not one substantial liberal policy. The only thing Clinton achieved throughout his eight years in office was managing to stay there. The Democrats wasted untold amounts of moral and political capital in their senseless and twisted support of him that they turned off millions of indepedents. There was no Democratic principle not jettisoned in order to defend Clinton (the height of this self abasement being Gloria Steinem saying that every man is allowed one free grope of women they work with) Clinton gutted the left (NOW's membership is below 50'000 and is a shell of itself.)

They will hold up Clinton and Gore in 2004 and lose big.