Ditch Bill Clinton

In the interest of spreading the wealth, here’s a tip for recreational gamblers that’ll pay off about a year from now. The Democratic nomination will be won by the first candidate who has the guts to repudiate Bill Clinton and his acolytes like Terry McAuliffe, Paul Begala and James Carville. Now that’s what I’d call a supreme Sister Souljah moment!

Objectively, the independently wealthy John Kerry is in the best position to eschew the Clinton/McAuliffe fundraising machine in favor of principle, but a stiff patrician like the junior Senator from Massachusetts, who’s uncomfortable drinking a beer from a bottle at a local bullroast, probably won’t seize the opportunity. Of the candidates in play right now–Wisconsin’s Russell Feingold, who apparently isn’t running, is the Democrats’ best chance against President Bush–my greenbacks are on Dick Gephardt, the underestimated former minority leader who’s never been under Clinton’s spell.

Clinton is a national embarrassment, a bored and bitter politician whose weekly routine is a mixture of lucrative (and usually incoherent) speeches around the world, socializing with celebrities and criticizing Bush with an unprecedented zeal, demolishing the tradition of an ex-president keeping mum, at least for several years, about his successor. Even Jimmy Carter, who disgracefully accepted a Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to him only as a rebuke to Bush, looks graceful in comparison.

The Arkansan’s latest tirade was lapped up by CNN on Dec. 19, as he inserted (no pun intended) himself into the Lott fiasco. Clinton said: "How do they [the Republican Party] think they got a majority in the South anyway? I think what they are really upset about is that [Lott] made public their strategy.

"They try to suppress black voting, they ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina, and from top to bottom the Republicans supported it." When a CNN reporter asked the man who pardoned Marc Rich if Lott should walk the plank, he responded: "That’s up to them, but I think they can’t do it with a straight face...

"He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day."

Clinton, still reeling from his ineffective campaigning on behalf of Democratic candidates in November, has willfully distorted the facts. In Georgia, for example, the issue of the Confederate flag was minor. The defeat of incumbent Democrat Roy Barnes by Sonny Perdue, was one of the biggest shocks of the midterm elections; had Perdue’s promise of a referendum on the flag resonated so highly, it would’ve shown up in polls, which showed Barnes winning by a landslide.

As Mark Levin, among others, pointed out in a Dec. 20 National Review Online post, Clinton’s record on race isn’t pristine. For example, in 1985, as governor, the First Black President signed a law making "the birthdates of Martin Luther King Jr... [and Confederate general] Robert E. Lee... state holidays on the same day." In addition, while Clinton was governor, Arkansas law decreed that "The Saturday immediately preceding Easter Sunday of each year is designated as ‘Confederate Flag Day’ in this state." Levin notes: "Clinton took no steps during his twelve years as governor to repeal this law. And we know why, don’t we? He didn’t want to offend certain of his constituents."

Hillary Clinton echoed her husband’s words just a few days later, telling Fox News, "I mean, what [Lott] did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years in the back roads and back streets of the South." She then bashed Bush for his South Carolina primary campaign against John McCain in 2000–an ugly contest on both sides–in which leaflets were distributed highlighting McCain’s adoption of a black baby, a smear tactic the Bush camp disavowed. The dirty tricks of losing candidates are quickly forgotten, but it’s worth recalling that McCain wasn’t pure in his media-driven bid to defeat Bush. In the Michigan primary, for example, his supporters called voters, saying that the Texas governor was anti-Catholic. In addition, McCain, speaking on the Straight Talk Express, referred to the "gooks" in Vietnam. The Senator’s captivity during the war inoculated him from the slur, but had the media not been so besotted by McCain, it would’ve been more than a one-day story and Asian-Americans would’ve been justifiably outraged.

Sen. Clinton, like Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, has now publicly announced that Democrats will race-bait every Republican they possibly can in the coming two years. It’s a losing strategy, but expect Frist to be the first castigated for imagined racial sins.

On Saturday, the Daily News’ Zev Chafets wrote a withering critique of Bill Clinton. He said: "Clinton speaks with a certain authority. He is the Man from Hope, former governor of Arkansas, a son of the South.

"On the other hand, he now lives in Chappaqua, Westchester County, where, according to the 2000 census, the African-American population is .03%...

"Clinton’s adopted town is not unique. The ex-President may not know this, but the anti-segregationist North–even here in New York–is dotted with lily-white towns, schools and neighborhoods.

"The Democrats, meanwhile, have integrated in the Northern way–blacks can join the party if they stay in their own precincts. Representatives, yes; senators, no. Black governors? Find one and ask. Try Carl McCall...

"Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not making excuses for [Lott]. I hope they ride him out of Washington on a rail...

"In fact, I hate Jim Crow just as much as the next white man who just happens to live in a virtually all-white neighborhood. Bill Clinton and I are on the same page there. And the same block."

In short, "no class."

In my wildest dreams, I couldn't respond any better.

Mugger is it.

The Arkansan’s latest tirade was lapped up by CNN on Dec. 19, as he inserted (no pun intended) himself into the Lott fiasco.

Yep, that's old Bill, always putting it where it don't belong.

Merry Christmas!

The " backroads" reference should be getting a lot more outrage than it is-especially from Republicans. Can you imagine the firestorm,had former President Bush stated that Democrats commit nefarious acts against blacks,on the back roads,every day?? Back roads signifies lynchings and dragging of blacks and if that isn't bad enough-clinton says it happens every single day!!Maybe after the New Year,the conservative pundits,who were so outraged about Lott-can summon that same level of outrage against clinton.

If I were the Republican strategists, there is a huge opportunity in the current RAT racebaiting. Historically, in the 50s-60s the dems were the party of segregation and the repubs were the party of civil rights. This is objective, historical, fact. I'm talking about the period detailed in Robert Caro's recent book on LBJ, Master of the Senate. When LBJ pushed the Civil Rights act of 1957 through the Senate the political landscape was such that it was southern democrats that were opposed to civil rights, and it was northern republicans, that had large minority constituencies that generally supported civil rights. This isn't opinion, it is demonstrable fact. The dems have rewritten history to say that historically the republican party has been the party of racial oppression. This is 180 degrees divorced from the fact and the republicans have allowed this monstrous lie to stand. If I were in the Republican leadership I would be shouting from the rooftops what the real history is. Mitch McConnell briefly alluded to this on Fox News Sunday but not everyone watches that show and McConnell is a lot smarter than he is telegenic. This is a real gimme, and I have no idea why the republicans are asleep at the switch. I would set the record straight and let everyone know who played what historical role.

Now, this loud mouthed ex-President,power mad,redundant ,racist, adulterer,sexual predator, rapist, treasonous, murdering, prevaricating,drug addict, perjurous, money grubbing, sociopathic, self absorbed trailor park low life, pond scum terrorist is going to teach a college REVIONIST history course that is going to be carried in it's entirely on CNN. Disgraceful!!! This should only be done over our dead bodies. Get a rope!

Mugger Russ Smith is undoubtedly correct that the first Democrat to repudiate the Clinton gang of traitorous criminals might be a winner. However

A) I hope they do not... Clinton is a veritable election gold-mine for the irate, mobilized Republicans.

B) Clinton and his band of felons control the Democrats ans the DNC as tightly as his role-model Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall in the 1800's democrat corruption (as seen more or less in the movie Gangs of New York).

Furthermore the Clintons have the dirt on everyone and a ferocious Destruction Machine (Isn't narcisstic and paranoid projection of your own evil behavior great?). A challenger would be at great peril.

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