So it's come down to this. - Democratic Underground

MadHound

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Wed May-14-08 07:40 AM
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So it's come down to this.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, herself a product of the Ivy League, one of the wealthy, powerful elite, is trying to cut out the heart of the Democratic party by pandering to the uneducated, the anti-intellectual, the bigoted, in her words the "hard working Americans, white Americans". Despite the fact that she is so far removed from this life that she is challenged by such simple concepts as pumping her own gas and getting her own coffee at the corner store, she is basing her claim to the nomination on the fact that she is the candidate of the great unwashed.

If this wasn't so sad, so pathetic and so destructive to the party, it would be laughable. A Dukakis in the tank moment, a Bush I puking on his hosts moment. Instead, this tactic truly reveals Hillary's desperation and her willingness to win at all costs, no matter who she throws under the bus.

She and her supporters surely know that by a large, large margin, intellectuals and college grads break for the Dems. Surely they know that virtually all ethnic groups break hard for the Dems. Surely they know that many of her so called supporters are only fair weather friends, devotees of Rush and his ilk who are trying to throw the primary process in order to get who they feel is weakest GE candidate. This group of people, mostly under educated and white, will leave Hillary in the GE, and thus throw the campaign to McCain. After all, they are bigoted rednecks who feel a woman in the White House is almost as big an abomination as a black man.

But she's continuing to pander to these false friends, claiming that because of their support she should get the nomination. Hmmm, who's the last presidential candidate who based his claim to fame on his rapport with the common man? Oh, yeah, the current idiot in office, whom most people wanted to have a beer, and possibly a bump, with. That should be a big warning sign right there.

But no, apparently not, and Hillary continues blithely on, taking the Democratic party not back to the good ol' days of the Reagan Democrats, but further back to the good ol' days of the Dixiecrats, throwing the rest of the party, the intellectuals, the various ethnic groups, immigrants, the GLBT community, that vast quilt of disparate groups, all in favor of her mythical "hard working Americans, white Americans". This is beyond sad, beyond a tragedy, beyond politics. This is Hillary sacrificing the heart and soul of the Democratic party on the alter of her greed, ambition and vanity.

With this latest, most desperate ploy, Hillary stands revealed. She isn't a Democrat, at least not where it counts. She is a pandering politician, willing to sell her core values and beliefs out to anybody who will help her in her ambition to become President. This isn't the sort of person, the sort of values, that we need in our nominee, nor in our President. After all, the last President who pandered to the racist, bigoted, uneducated vote shredded our Constitution, got us into an illegal, immoral war, and sadly has eight more months of damage to inflict.