You know, I've failed to take this matter to the next level. We've all focused on how HRC energizes the R base for the 2008 Presidential race. We've focused on how HRC is an organ of the DLC, a group that has devastated the Democratic Party at the national level for the last 14 years, is deeply tied to corporate interests, and has attracted the allegiance of many Congressional candidates only to crush them with ignorant, incompetent advice/assistance. We've talked about how she is the least capable of the top 5 Dems currently in the race to actually win the White House in 2008.
But there's more to it.
To put it coyly, HRC is the "uniter" that dubya has wanted to be for the Rs.
The minute HRC is declared the Democratic nominee, the Republican National Committee will experience the equivalent of a $500 million contribution. All those folks that the fund raising groups had to recently let go because the phone lines have been dead will be working double shifts to keep up. More importantly, they will be able to shift from the traditional strategy of simultaneously managing races for Congress and race for the White House. The Republican machine feeds on hate and fear. Any informal polling - and even the "scientific" ones that ask the right questions - of people who are not dittoheads for HRC shows that HRC is despised by anywhere from 45-55% of the voting population (most recent Aug. Gallup Poll).
Sadly, too many people who so desperately want to see a woman as president or are still in love with Bubba are blinded to this and will say things like, "well, once they get to know the real Hillary, they'll change their mind." When the hell was the last time you found a Republican willing to change their minds on a political topic? You have to believe in miracles to expect her image to shift - go play the lottery, you have better odds.
The RNC will cash in on that and stoke the fires of that unified opposition. She is the fuel their lame little flickering chances need to turn the political tide.
Which is where the reason for Rupert Murdoch, big pharma, the military-industrial complex, and medical insurers are so shockingly willing to raise money for her becomes clearer. Besides hedging their bets (knowing that HRC won't betray their interests in perma-war, usurous prescription charges, etc.), they are magnifying the capabilities of their true partners, the neocon-led RNC.
HRC's very existence will save them millions that they'd otherwise have to spend to attack the Dem's prez candidate. Why spend money to pummel someone who is already loathed by so many? Just keep the subtle innuendo that her new pal Rupert Murdoch has been making sure is hammered home over the last 12 years. The RNC strategy is then able to shift its full attention to recapturing the House and Senate. Their persistent theme will be, "Can you imagine what will happen to this country with HER in charge and a Democratic Congress that won't stand up to her insanity?!" They will boldly demand what the DLC and DNC have been too fearful to demand - a veto-proof Congress.
And it will work.
They will take it all back. Maybe not veto-proof, but they will take back all the closely contested seats they lost in 2006. The tight ones the Rs won in 2006 will be firmly retained. And just when you thought things couldn't get worse, they will be worse.
It will work because the DLC has it's pathetic claws into the base of so many candidates who will continue the Rahm Emmanual formula for guaranteed election losses. And the unrelenting rovian attacks will churn the Republican party and make them forget all about the current, real national nightmare and focus on the frightening fake one projected by the RNC. The anti-Hillary crowds will swarm the polls.
HRC is either as arrogant as her neocon brethren, so insufferably full of herself that she knows she's being played but still thinks that she can beat scumbags at their own game - or she is dumb as a bag of hammers. I guess another option is that she is doing this deliberately to kill off the DNC and serve her corporate masters by sealing their ownership of both political parties. But my money is on option one. She doesn't care what happens to anyone else - she wants to be president and anyone who gets hurt along the way is acceptable collateral damage.
At this point, it's still too early to tell if she can get the nomination. But if she does, the only hope for our nation is for a strong, Progressive duo to run as Independents. Dems not affiliated with DLC can insulate themselves from RNC attacks by allying themselves with the Independent team. Dem Senate candidates will be forced by the RNC strategy to choose between HRC or the Independent candidates, which can either tear the DNC apart (yielding option 3) - or it will strengthen the DNC more than it has before, driving a firm, unambiguous wedge between the neocons in the DLC and the DNC. In a 3-way race between Romney or Huckleberry, HRC, and an Al Gore or Richard Clarke - HRC finishes in 3rd place. And in a perverted way that I'm a little ashamed to admit, I think it would be good for that to happen because I think it would go a long way to kill off the DLC.
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