Archive for March 5th, 2008
Viva Hillary
She lives. Having won two major states, Ohio and Texas, she still has close to half of the delegates, and has regained some of that momentum folks like to talk so much about. The Democratic case for her going on to win the nomination is made, quite convincingly, at least to me, by Harold Ickes and Mark Penn today at RealClearPolitics.
Some liberals, for instance Marty Peretz at the New Republic, seem to be tired of the whole Billary shtick. As in, with Hillary Clinton, you also must take Bill Clinton. To which I say, “So? Where’s the bad news?”
The Clintons are a team. You get one, you get both. And that’s good news for Republicans like me: he’d be a steadying influence on Hillary’s more leftish notions.
Stated differently, he’d be a ballast towards the center. Bill is the reason I voted for Hillary in the Virginia primary. Not because I think she will be easier to beat than Obama. Rather, for damage control, hedging against a more-likely-than-not Democratic win in November.
Obama is far too liberal, and, contra his rhetoric, has not worked across party lines on anything of importance. He will unite us, but only if we all go along with his leftist agenda.
The best one may say about Obama is that he is, indeed, a fresh face. But he is untested, in politics as well as world affairs, having only won a single U.S. Senate race in 2004 against a very weak opponent. His wobbling on NAFTA is but the tip of the iceberg. Wait until he starts out his administration with a “surrender summit” with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This Republican says, if a Democrat must win, let it not be Obama. I trust the Clintons’ instincts and experience far more than Obama’s.
