To Hillary Clinton, from your secret admirer

You've probably noticed that I've had some hard words for Barack Obama, but I'm curiously quiet about Hillary Clinton.  Maybe it's even made you a tad suspicious.  Am I, you wonder, surreptitiously wielding the mighty influence of my corner of the web to sway primary voters and wayward superdelegates away from Obama, knowing they'll thence accrue to the secret object of my allegiance?  Or is it even more personal than that?  Do I sit and gaze out the window during the day, indulging forbidden fantasies of jowly smoochfests?  When I hear "Rodham", do I think of the salacious possibilities its separate syllables seem to promise?  To put it bluntly: am I subscribing to her newsletter?

Well, no.  There are a few reasons why I don't talk about Hillary Clinton.  One is that I think she's one of the most vile human beings in mainstream politics today; she practically oozes ruthless ambition and blood lust.  I can take maybe 15 seconds of Hillary talking before I feel the gorge starting to rise (which puts her second only to George Bush).  And writing about her isn't much better.

But the bigger reason I don't have much to say about her is that she's a Republican in all but name, and I find it difficult to understand how anyone who pays attention could think otherwise or consciously choose to support her.  Every time I see or hear a Hillary fan expressing genuine enthusiasm for her, my brain goes blank, refusing to accept the reality of it, like I've just seen an alligator fly a mechanical doughnut out of a dog's anus.

For the true believers out there, though, there've been a few unmistakable signs of her true nature in the past few days.  Like this:

Unlikely Allies Campaign for a Gas Tax Holiday

Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton found themselves taking a lonely stand on the campaign trail Thursday, defending the proposed gasoline-tax holiday while critics from both parties lined up against it.

(Which is fine except for the "Unlikely".)  And this:

"You're a polarizing personality," O'Reilly said [to Clinton]. "You're like I am and I hate to say that."

It pains me to agree with Bill O'Reilly (a solid contender for third on the aforementioned list), but he hit the nail on the head here: she is indeed like him, in the worst ways.

Should Hillary somehow manage to claw her way into the final round of her quest for the power of total obliteration, I'm sure I'll have more to say about her.  But for now I'm just hoping she'll accidentally get caught out in the rain at a campaign stop, melting, melting, and finally ending up as a greasy puddle, thus saving me (and all of us) the unpleasant task of thinking about her anymore.

Comments

[Thomas Daulton]

From a letter by a NYT reader:

Hillary Clinton has been criticized for her gas tax holiday proposal, but if it takes away an excuse to vote Republican in November, it gives us a chance of having someone in the White House who will do the right thing in the long run. ... We cannot overnight switch to alternatives and green building, and she recognizes the need to get us through those interim years.

Thomas' response: [sound of head banging against desk]

You cannot do the right thing in the long run if the only steps you ever actually take are short-term steps in the wrong direction. But, when 8 years of Hillary go by without progress on energy policy, the Democrats will be ready to excuse her, and all Democrats, with cries of “The Republican Congress wouldn’t let her do anything!”

....aaaaaand then there's this slightly less insane article from Huffington Post:

I am sick to death of hearing that a vote for John McCain is a vote for four more years of George Bush, when more and more a vote for Hillary seems to be exactly the same thing. I didn't start out as an Obama supporter ... As time went on, though, I began to realize that Obama was offering a radical change in tone, mode and template--someone who finally spoke to America as if he wasn't addressing a roomful of severely retarded eight-year-olds.

----- Thomas' comment:
Yes, indeed, Obama has raised the level of political discourse in this country from eight years old all the way up to about eleven or twelve or so. Gotta give him that much! The commentator goes on to say, "in a week where Obama gives us more honest and adult conversation about the Reverend Wright 'issue,'" -- but he's talking about the speech where Obama basically said "OK, OK, you win, Reverend Wright has cooties." Yeah very mature there, Dennis Perrin had it right.

....aaaaaaaand then, just for the full tour-de-fource, check the delusions on this guy:

Admittedly, Al Gore has often publicly said he is no longer interested in the presidency, that he is well over the disappointment of not attaining it, and that he can do better work (on the environment and global warming) as a private citizen. And he has said those things with all sincerity. But it is relatively easy to make those comments and believe them when the presidency is an abstract notion, and when the idea of entering the grueling fray of a long winter of primary politics is a singularly unattractive one to a retired politician. But one cannot underestimate the effect, sitting in the convention hall in Denver and watching the future of his party, and potentially his country, being decided and his being offered, on the proverbial silver platter, the opportunity to likely become the forty-third president of the United States a mere two-and-a-half months later, can have. (And who really believes that as president of the United States he cannot do more for his cause than he can as a tireless, and admittedly often effective, private citizen?)

-----Thomas' comment:
Yeah, right, a campaign to forcibly draft Al Gore six months before the election. The amount of delusion involved here truly speaks volumes about how desperate the Democrats are. Either that, or frightened, or both.

[Duncan]

when 8 years of Hillary go by without progress on energy policy, the Democrats will be ready to excuse her, and all Democrats, with cries of “The Republican Congress wouldn’t let her do anything!”

You betcha. Funny, isn't it, that the Democratic Congress has been willing to let Bush do just about anything.