Squeezing Hillary
Deborah Orin points out that Hillary Clinton is caught in a squeeze play of her own making -- her strategy of tacking right while taking her left base for granted isn't working in the post 9/11 world, where Iraq is the defining issue.
If you don't believe Orin, check out some of the comments of leftist moonbats over at Huffington Post (where I blog from time to time). Sure, lots of them are loons -- but they're also the energy center of the party, and they're angry at Hillary.
Here's the problem for Hillary: She's insincere. Like her husband, it's pretty difficult to assess what she really believes (although it's pretty certain she's a lefty), and even harder to predict what she'd do if elected (because one can never foresee the political climate -- and that's always the determining factor in guiding the Clintons' actions). The right has always accused her of being willing to do anything to get elected . . . and now, the left is reaching that conclusion, as well.
Unfortunately for Hillary, she's up at a time when authenticity has been placed at a premium by the left. That's why we should all expect to be seeing Bill Clinton tack left in days to come -- trying to shore up his wife's flagging flank.
Update: Even Jimmy Breslin is upset. Yes, 2008 may be rough for the Republicans -- but it isn't looking so pretty for the Democrats, either.
If you don't believe Orin, check out some of the comments of leftist moonbats over at Huffington Post (where I blog from time to time). Sure, lots of them are loons -- but they're also the energy center of the party, and they're angry at Hillary.
Here's the problem for Hillary: She's insincere. Like her husband, it's pretty difficult to assess what she really believes (although it's pretty certain she's a lefty), and even harder to predict what she'd do if elected (because one can never foresee the political climate -- and that's always the determining factor in guiding the Clintons' actions). The right has always accused her of being willing to do anything to get elected . . . and now, the left is reaching that conclusion, as well.
Unfortunately for Hillary, she's up at a time when authenticity has been placed at a premium by the left. That's why we should all expect to be seeing Bill Clinton tack left in days to come -- trying to shore up his wife's flagging flank.
Update: Even Jimmy Breslin is upset. Yes, 2008 may be rough for the Republicans -- but it isn't looking so pretty for the Democrats, either.
posted by LadybugUSA at 10:53 AM
4 Comments:
As much as I hate to think it, we might be better off with a break up of both parties, and just spin off a Liberal and Conservative party. Leave the dinosaurs to the donkeys and elephants. But then, this isn't Canada...
Hillary's troubles are emblematic of the Democrats' troubles. It's just played out on a grander scale because of her ambitions.
The reality is that she's trying to triangulate on an issue with no middle ground.
As for Kirkill's comments about leaving "the dinosaurs to donkeys and elephants", I don't think that's necessary because there won't be a Donkey party if they keep playing politics with life and death issues.
I also take a tiny bit of offense at the unstated premise that elephants are devoid of fresh ideas. It's obvious to one and all that the GOP is the party of ideas and the Dems aren't.
This isn't that complicated, folks. Hillary isn't a top-tier presidential candidate because she lacks her husband's personality and political sensitivity.
Remember, too, that she wasn't challenged in a serious way in 2000, either by the press or Lazio. With her abrasiveness and temper, she's liable to come unhinged when people needle her day after day to the gaffes that she'll make in that type of campaign.
If you're perceived as insensitive or ill-tempered, voters will remember that. They'll also remember that she's shifty and scandal-ridden.
That isn't the image she's trying to create but it's who she is.
Hillary? Insincere? Oh, say it ain't so!
heh
Nah, to close observers for years she's made the weathervane Jean Fraud sKerry look good. Heavens. Her pure egocentrism is of such mythic proportions, she's more "two-faced" than Janus. Even he could only face two opposite directions at once... Talking out of both sides of all her faces at once is such an amazing feat that she should be named one of the (horrible) wonders of the world.
Of course, she has help in that some of her faces are on a separate body. That's what makes the Billary creature such an object of morbid fascination, though.
heh
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