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December 6, 2005
Hillary and the Angry Left
Most people who follow politics will probably agree that Hillary Clinton has been trying to pull the same "triangulation" ploy that worked for her husband by temporarily disassociating herself from her fellow moonbats as she positions herself as an electable moderate in the long run-up to the 2008 election. The only question is whether or not the tactic will work.
Poor Hillary has to walk a fine line. If she actually manages to convince people that she's moderate, her leftist base will go into hysterics. If she's too obvious with her winks to the Michael Moore set, no one who doesn't torch flags at demonstrations will want her anywhere near the White House. Or maybe her strategy will completely blow up in her face, and the only ones believing she's a moderate will be rabid Deaniac types who think moderates belong in gulags.
The latter scenario may be the most likely, because moonbats are notoriously more gullible than normal people. Evidence of this could be seen in Hillary's hometown of Chicago last weekend, where the moderate (for a Democrat) stance she has taken on the Iraq war got her heckled by militant kooks who had to be dragged away by security guards.
There will be more of this to come. The Daily News reports that hard-core leftists like Code Pink's Medea Benjamin and Bill Dobbs of United for Peace and Justice want to punish Hillary for straying from the one true path. The plan is to follow her wherever she goes, demanding that she adopt their Murtha-style "surrender and bend over" approach to dealing with terrorism.
If Hillary gets the nomination, these kooks will have done her a major favor by making her moderate pose seem genuine. If I thought they had the patience or intelligence, I would suspect them of protesting her on purpose to help her into the White House. But delayed gratification is not on the agenda of the emotional two-year-olds on the left end of spectrum.
Who knows, they might just damage her enough to tip the nomination to someone who openly shares their rabid hostility toward America. If Kerry could get the nomination, anything's possible.
Hat tips: Wiggins, Drudge Report
Posted by Van Helsing at December 6, 2005 9:40 PM
Comments
Yeah, I don't envy the tight rope act Hillary has to pull off.
I would love to see a Hilary vs Rice presidential campaign. Can you say "and now for something completely different"?
I've no doubt who the winner would be.
Posted by: Junker at December 6, 2005 11:49 PM
They're already ripping the flesh from each others' bones like so many stupid little pirhanas- Barack Obama-lama-dingdong has just come out saying that while he thinks it's good politics to cut and run, he doesn't think it's good policy. My guess is that means "I'm testing peoples' reaction before choosing a position".
CODEPINKO has just announced "Operation Bird-Dog Hillary"- they're going to heckle Shrillary at every appearance for deviating from Chairman Howard's Little Red Book of Acceptable Revolutionary Triangulations.
Empress Shrillary is clearly trying a page from Wilhelm Von Slickmeister's book- Grab The Center™. Only there is no center in Iraq- there's no center in war. She can either be for the fighting of Islamism and it's supporters wherever they may be, or not. No Clintonesque "That depends on the meaning of 'support' ".
Posted by: Darth Bacon at December 7, 2005 2:37 AM
It speaks volumes about the current Democratic party that a mere socialist like Hillary is considered a centrist.
Posted by: V the K at December 7, 2005 7:42 AM
Heh, "triangulation." Whatever it is Hillary is doing, it probably involves at least the third dimension, and perhaps more. When, I'm wondering, will she need to trip back into time and revise history on some "immoderate" slip-up she's made in her past that is just waiting to burble up to our present space-time and crush her chances? All the other Dem hopefuls are doing it, after all.
Can't wait.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at December 7, 2005 2:40 PM
