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December 06, 2005
I might be done with Hillary Clinton
Every time I try to forget that Hillary Clinton does things to infuriate me ... she does something to infuriate me. And it's always pretty much the same thing -- each time she engages in some wimpy, posturing, opportunistic, political tactic that she thinks will appease right-wing voters.
Clinton announced she is co-sponsoring a law with Senator Bob Bennett (R -Utah) to make desecration of the American flag a crime ... but says she opposes a Constitutional amendment to the same effect.
That's it Hillary, stand up for what you believe in!
While right-wing candidates win elections by appealing to their base -- making NO concessions to appeal liberal voters, Clinton continually goes out of her way to never take a stand on anything.
Does Hillary get off from straddling the fence or something? I just don't get it.
The one thing about the Democrats that talking heads on both sides of the political spectrum agree on is the notion that the Democrats have no conviction.
I'd like to say that this assertion is not true (Democratic Committee (Chairman Howard Dean seems to have conviction, for example), but it is hard to make that argument when prominent Dems like Hillary pull crap like this.
Clinton's flag-bill nonsense comes on the heels of her bill for the Family Entertainment Protection Act (FEPA), which she says would "empower parents by making sure their kids can’t walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content."
At least with FEPA it seems plausible Clinton might actually believe in her bill (even if she did follow up the previous statement with "This is about protecting children," a statement that obviously translates to "Look at me conservatives! Me is stopping porn and supporting family values!").
But this lame flag law is just such obvious posturing.
Can someone like that be elected president? I just don't know. My gut says 'no' but I'm not a political scientist, and national elections these days tend close and surprising.
Maybe she is making a bid to be John McCain's vice presidential nominee. Oh wait, no. That's Joe Liebermann (who, rumor has it, Bush is considering as a candidate to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary).
The pool of would-be Democratic presidential candidates thus far looks to me to be so weak that I'm basically prepared to throw up my hands and just think "at least McCain will be better than Bush."
God I miss Paul Wellstone.
Posted by MJuhre at December 6, 2005 11:41 AM