Strange Bedfellows Indeed


First it was Richard Mellon Scaife, now, as Jeff St. Clair notes in his concluding paragraph, Hillary is cozying up with the Turd Blossom himself.

Her campaign now resembles a political neutron bomb that wipes out all living contenders and leaves only the super-structure of her own aspiration standing. Apparently, the idea is to crush the interloper Obama, either in Denver, through some deus ex machina of spineless super-delegates stampeding her way, or to have McCain do her work for her so that she can challenge the septuagenarian in 2012. If so, her motto will be the familiar taunt of the schoolhouse tattletale: "I told you so."

If Obama survives the primaries and falls to McCain in November, Hillary will attempt to remake the Democratic Party in her own image. It will replay of the origin of the conservative DLC, designed by her husband and Lieberman to keep the party from falling into the hands of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition. This time the C will stand for Clinton.

The Clintons have always been graceless and petulant in defeat. They seek to destroy any defectors from their camp (c.f., Bill "Judas" Richardson). Now that NARAL has jilted Clinton for Obama, Hillary is probably contemplating coming out in favor parental notification for teenage abortions and joining the next senate filibuster against stem cell research.

Meanwhile, Obama is daily being drained of any vestigial progressive instinct. In order to prove he’s not an appeaser of Hezbollah, Obama is pledging to beef up funding of the Lebanese army and paramilitaries, a disastrous scheme that will only exacerbate a fractious situation. If this keeps up, there will soon be demands that Obama annul his marriage to the seditious Michelle, the last affirmative reason to vote for him in my view.

With the walls closing in around her, Hillary unveiled a final argument: Karl Rove, the man John Conyers wants to put in leg-irons in the crypt of the Capitol, says she’s the better candidate against McCain. Rove also swore there were weapons of mass destruction. Clinton fell for that one, too.

Well, yeah, but a couple of things--first, if Clinton's willing to rub elbows with Scaife and Rove after all they did to trash her, hopefully that means she'll bury the hatchet with Obama, preferably sooner rather than later. We'll see.

Second: in spite of this, it appears that the public is simply fed up with the mix and match of arrogance and stupidity that is the Republican "brand," that is George W. Bush...as inseparable as "Jimmy Carter" is to the Democratic Party of the 1970s. And no, I don't like having to make the comparison--after all, all things considered, Carter's a reasonably decent man, his admiration for the Shah of Iran (and a few other things) notwithstanding...but THAT'S precisely the strategy the Democratic Party needs to apply. GOP=George W. Bush. Rinse, repeat.

Bush, whether he or anyone else likes it or not, is toxic waste. As is anyone associated with him.

Like Karl Rove.