Something Else I Was Wrong About

by on April 23, 2008 10

I said ten days ago that Hillary Clinton was a "dead woman walking." I still think she’s going to lose. But obviously my political prognostication was piss-poor. It’s not the first time I’ve been wrong. I’m starting a new category, My Mistakes. Hope it doesn’t grow…

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  1. Jim Haygood says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:03 am

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    One thing which struck me last night was that women voters outnumbered men nearly 6 to 4. Politics as an all-male club may have been a little extreme, but gynocracy isn't working out that great either. Women inherently crave security and eschew male risk-taking proclivities. So they empower the state to restrain us with mandatory seat-belt laws; no-fault divorce with alimony, child custody, and child support for the mother; kangaroo-court domestic violence proceedings ("you call, we haul"); gun control; CAFE fuel standards which will shut down our trucks; and harsh prison sentences (the male crime rate is at least ten times the female rate). And with men emasculated, the bloated State becomes their ever-lovin' Sugar Daddy.

    In the suffragette era, conventional wisdom held that mothers wouldn't want to send their sons off to war, and would vote accordingly. How wrong that was! Slap a testosterone patch on a post-pausal she-male like Hillary, and she goes ranting about nuking Iran off the planet if they attack our beloved "ally," Israel. And the skirts love it. Oy vey!

    At least I thought today would mark Clinton's exit from the primary race. But no. More agonizing weeks lie ahead, of aural assault by the cacophonous "caw, caw, caw" of the cornfed crone's crepitated crow voice. (Sorry; existential despair drives me into an alliterative frenzy.) Gaze (if you can stand it) at the sinister ridge under her pantsuit, near the pudgy right ankle. That's no anti-edema corset, son — it's a castration knife.

  2. bondo says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:26 am

    how to account for the victory % and exit polls surveys which had hilry winning by 5% not the approx 10%? why would exiters lie bout their selection?

  3. Charles Keating says:
    April 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I too was struck by the 6:4ratio of democratic voters. Why would men vote at only one to every two female voters? Is it because they have given up on any party representing them, the aggregate anchor weighing on them in especially the last 40 years as aptly described by Jim Haygood above here? Surely that's part of it. Another factor may be that, at least in PA, more
    of them outside the T (less nannified or less metro-male types) either are Republicans, or as Independents or cross-overs finagled out by the voting machine that did'nt work or by not being informed properly how to switch voting cards with all I's dotted?

    Another thing I noticed was that at the exit polls about 13% admitted race mattered. That's definitely a defiance given our strong PC culture.

    It will be interesting what the election results reveal concerning
    the social, economic, and real cannon fodder's take on making this a yet stronger nanny state and the USA a light to the world.

    I suspect working and lower-middle to middle-middle class white males feel they have no say at all, given the three prime candidates.

    Hillary wants to perfect the nanny state. Obama wants to perfect
    the world, stressing masked historical reparations. McCain's looking for his old pilot's manual.

  4. Charles Keating says:
    April 23, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Oops, I mean Why would men vote at only two to every three female voters?

  5. the Sword of Gideon says:
    April 23, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Looks like the Black Jesus fell just a little bit short.

  6. neocognitism says:
    April 23, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Hillary already lost, she's running a zombie campaign at this point, fueled by the brains from the MSM.

    Now she needs 70% of the unpledged delegates to win. That simply is not going to happen.

    It's been over, it is over. She's only hoping for something like a Dupre to take Obama out. That's not going to happen. That's what the ABC debate was all about, and it was a failure.

    Obama will be the the nominee, and then he will be President, unless some sort of "attack" conveniently happens prior to Nov. that scares us all into Republican-voting submission again.

  7. Duscany says:
    April 24, 2008 at 2:00 am

    "Another thing I noticed was that at the exit polls about 13% admitted race mattered."

    Thirty percent of the Pennsylvania voters think that race matters. Fourteen percent of the Pennsylvania voters are black. Ninety-two percent of black voters went for Obama.

    Now I understand.

  8. Duscany says:
    April 24, 2008 at 2:02 am

    Whoops, meant to say that "Thirteen percent of Pennsylvania voters think that race matters. . ."

  9. Glenn Condell says:
    April 24, 2008 at 4:03 am

    What percentage of voting booths had machines rather than paper based systems? Can any election involving machines ever be considered kosher, with confidence?

  10. Charles Keating says:
    April 24, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Well, you know what Kosher means: a rabbi waves his finger over some process and it's good to go.

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