Obama is getting closer by the day. And yet the Democratic Party is split. Many Hillary supporters will turn to McCain in the fall if Obama's the nominee--just as many Obama supporters will vote for McCain if Hillary manages to pull it off. It's Lamont-Lieberman all over again, Connecticut, '06. And when Lamont, the insurgent, knocked off the establishment candidate, Lieberman ran as an Independent and beat Lamont in the general.
Maybe Hillary should do the same thing. This may be her last chance to be president, and she has broad appeal, who needs political parties? As her former pollster Mark Penn has shown, it's all about marketing and microtrends. She's got name recognition and money and many different strands of support, from hawkish Jews to truckdrivers.
She could keep running Obama's numbers down all spring summer and fall, and battle McCain for the neocon vote and the racists. She'd clean McCain's clock in a debate.
As an Obama man, I'm not really for this, but I don't know that it's a recipe for disaster. You could argue that she would split the white vote with McCain as much as you could argue she'd split the Democratic vote with Obama. Maybe this is the realignment some of us have been long predicting. It might be good for the country. Right now there are three distinct constituencies in the body politics:
Right. McCain. Neocons and the remains of the fiscal/NRA Republican base, plus homeless religious righters.
Center. Hillary. Neoliberals and some neocons. Hawks, meritocrats. Older Jews, blue collar voters, the remains of the Democratic base.
Left. Obama. Elites, blacks, youth, paleocons, homeless Ron Paul voters.
Right now it looks like a lot of people are going to be left out in the rain by the Democratic party process. Why not have democracy all the way to November?
i dont understand hillary's appeal other than the constant blather of the mouths of the 90s and that is not a qualification.
she is constantly called brilliant. she aint. she is silly and incompetent
and totally controlled by zionists and corps.
I don't think it will play out like that Phil.
I think that after losing in Indiana (following a loss in North Carolina) the rumors of momentum swing will be dashed, and she will give in.
SO MANY of her paraded supporters have stated unequivocally that they will support whomever the democrats select at the convention, that it will be difficult to go back on that, and many would add up that breaking up the party would not be worth it for the trivial vanity and minor policy differences between them.
When the Clintons realize that the money will not flow into a losing, resentful and divisive campaign, they'll instead target keeping their Senate seat in a prospective democratic Congress and democratic presidency.
"many Obama supporters will vote for McCain if Hillary manages to pull it off."
Nonsense, Obama suporters will not vote for McCain. The arrow, as we say in basketball, is pointing to a McCain presidency. I believe that's what you boys call "al-Naqba."
"many Obama supporters will vote for McCain if Hillary manages to pull it off."
Nonsense, Obama suporters will not vote for McCain. The arrow, as we say in basketball, is pointing to a McCain presidency. I believe that's what you boys call "al-Naqba."
David, please explain your comment.
Phil, I think you should read Ron Paul's new book.
I know your time is precious. But it's less than 200 pages.
What's left of independent America is reading it now.
There are insurmountable ballot access barriers to this otherwise attractive scenario that Lieberman didn't face in Connecticut.
Lieberman is clinging on the back of the the old retarded candidate, McÇain like any American bank boss on the back of
the Federal Reserve. Bail out the status quo. It will be done. Obama's time has not come.
Rev. Wright for president!
Right: Warmongering (Iraq) big government conservatives, foreign policy socialists, materialists, Zionists.
Left: Warmongering (Balkans) big government left-liberals, domestic and foreign policy socialists, dialectical materialists, Zionists.
Center: The Red-fascist synthesis of the first two.
Homeless (for now): Paleocon-libertarians, Western civ. Christians, populists, Ron Paul voters.
Fading fast: the anachronistic two-party scam, the Zionist stranglehold on America.