Posted on 12/24/2002 4:20:46 PM PST by aculeus
In the interest of spreading the wealth, heres a tip for recreational gamblers thatll 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 thats what Id 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, whos uncomfortable drinking a beer from a bottle at a local bullroast, probably wont seize the opportunity. Of the candidates in play right nowWisconsins Russell Feingold, who apparently isnt running, is the Democrats best chance against President Bushmy greenbacks are on Dick Gephardt, the underestimated former minority leader whos never been under Clintons 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 Arkansans 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: "Thats up to them, but I think they cant 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 Perdues promise of a referendum on the flag resonated so highly, it wouldve 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, Clintons record on race isnt 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, dont we? He didnt want to offend certain of his constituents."
Hillary Clinton echoed her husbands 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 2000an ugly contest on both sidesin which leaflets were distributed highlighting McCains adoption of a black baby, a smear tactic the Bush camp disavowed. The dirty tricks of losing candidates are quickly forgotten, but its worth recalling that McCain wasnt 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 Senators captivity during the war inoculated him from the slur, but had the media not been so besotted by McCain, it wouldve been more than a one-day story and Asian-Americans wouldve 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. Its 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%...
"Clintons adopted town is not unique. The ex-President may not know this, but the anti-segregationist Northeven here in New Yorkis dotted with lily-white towns, schools and neighborhoods.
"And clearly, not all the lilies are Republicans...
"The Democrats, meanwhile, have integrated in the Northern wayblacks can join the party if they stay in their own precincts. Representatives, yes; senators, no. Black governors? Find one and ask. Try Carl McCall...
"Dont misunderstand me. Im 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."
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BTTT!
In short, "no class."
In my wildest dreams, I couldn't respond any better. |
Mugger is it.
What principle?
Yep, that's old Bill, always putting it where it don't belong.
Merry Christmas!
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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