Archive for March 6th, 2008
“People my age are going to be throwing stones”
Thus saith one of the denizens on the angry Left. The condition for such stone-throwing? If their man, St. Barack of Obama, is denied what they apparently think is his by some sort of divine right: the Democratic nomination.
The quotation comes from a lefty source, the Huffington Post, and examines what some of the NutRoots are saying. There’s wild talk of anti-war Iraq war veterans ready to “rock and roll” and this gem about throwing stones:
…if the Machine tries to give the Clintons the victory at the convention, I swear to God, Chicago’s going to look like a Sadie Hawkins dance. People my age are going to be throwing stones. We all have transportation — cell phones — disposable income — the Internet — free time — and Seattle as our example. Part of me is scared of a riot. Part of me isn’t. The nomination belongs to Obama. Do you think we’re going to let the Democratic Leadership Council take it? “God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.” (emphasis added)
Fascinating, the sense of entitlement some folks get from a few primary victories. Now, exactly why this newcomer is more entitled than Hillary Rodham Clinton is a mystery to this Republican. The candidates are, after all, within about 10% of each other in delegate count.
I don’t particularly like Hillary, although she’s gotten my sympathy lately. But I always thought it logical for her to be in the top tier of likely Democratic presidential candidates this time around. And she did not fold under pressure, and won, with comfortable margins, the key states of Ohio and Texas. In fact, of the major states that any Democrat must win to become president, it is only in Obama’s home state of Illinois that Clinton failed to win.
So the nomination is every bit as much Hillary’s as Obama’s. Logic not, apparently shared by the idiot quoted at Huffington. As to the “fire next time,” part of me truly wishes that there would be violence at the Donk convention.
Bring it on; make it 1968 again, when the noble Hubert Horatio Humprhey lost to the ignoble Richard Milhous Nixon. In large part due to the fracturing of the Democratic Party. The party, of course, was then taken over by the idiots and children, and proceeded to, well, become a party of losers.
There’s a good chance that John McCain will win this November. This despite Republican ineptitude and greed in Congress, and President Bush’s cockup of Iraq. Of course, let it not be forgotten that Democrats are just as inept, just as greedy (e.g. John Earmark Murtha; Wm. Freezer Burn Jefferson). And we’re in Iraq, damn it all. We can’t just pack our bags and bug out. No matter whose fault it is.
Long story short: the Donks are attempting to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. And the more some of their minions threaten a replay of the 1968 riots, the more likely it becomes that this is exactly what will happen.
