Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy today. Everybody knew it was coming. The anticipatory mood was like waiting for a sagging roof to collapse.
I have to say that I think the Democrats ought to be just a little worried to have all their eggs in this basket. Mrs. Clinton has an awful lot of liabilities — I won’t enumerate them here, because I have other things to do this week — and any one of them, let alone their cumulative tonnage, might be enough to sink her between now and the convention. (I say “the convention”, and not “the election”, because I don’t think she will even end up being the Democratic nominee.) Hell, she might even ship too much liquor some quiet Westchester evening and fall down the stairs. (From basket to casket.)
So, if she’s not there come Election Day, what have the Democrats got? I’ll tell you: bupkis, that’s what. Doesn’t this fact trouble them, just a little?
Mind you, I might be coming round to Hillary’s camp myself. As I mentioned in a comment last month, “there are times — and they are more frequent now — when I think that the only way to move beyond this tottering wreck, and begin to build whatever we can upon its rubble, is to help it fall, as quickly as possible.” If that’s the goal, then Hillary’s the gal.
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I’m sure Obama’s going, “AprÁ¨s moi, le dÁ©luge.”
He’s teasing LB.
(I think.)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/13/us-usa-election-clinton-logo-idUSKBN0N30XF20150413
Our host may be right in his last paragraph. The only way to get this cancer out of our system and rebuild ourselves is to allow their final tumor to fester and die.
An alternative? Well their base wants somebody as red as Obama, but America could be better served if they could run an actual democrat like Jim Webb.
” As I mentioned in a comment last month, “there are times – and they are more frequent now – when I think that the only way to move beyond this tottering wreck, and begin to build whatever we can upon its rubble, is to help it fall, as quickly as possible.”
Only problem with “helping it fall” is the Washington insiders (on both sides) will keep us in a hellish existence of being slaves of the coercive nanny state, long past the point of ruin. The nanny will morph from Mary Poppins to Joan Crawford, exchanging the spoonful of sugar with a wire hanger. We’d have to rally behind the slogan” “No wire hangers, ever!”, which doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Give me liberty, or give me death!”….
What’s the rush, Malcolm? Why not cross that bridge when we get there? It’s not a certainty that we will, so why not exercise our right to vote while we still have it?
Anything is possible, except certainty (TheBigHenry’s Law of Possibility). And don’t forget Rahm “It Up Your Ass” Emanuel’s dictum:
Henry, you asked:
The reason is that the worst future I can imagine for this nation, and indeed all of the West, is a slow, inexorable descent into mediocrity, demographic and cultural dissolution, and ultimately tyranny and extinction. And I think America as presently constituted may already be beyond repair.
Better to rouse what still has vigor, virility, and some creative and fighting spirit in what remains of our civilization and its people, rather than dying the slow death of the boiled frog. It will take a serious shock, however, to do that. Eight years of another Democratic sociopath might just do the trick.
It might; or not. Or Rahm’s dictum may kick in …
That whole “I want to be your champion” biz is so infantalizing. I don’t need a champ, thanks.
I think that the only way to move beyond this tottering wreck, and begin to build whatever we can upon its rubble, is to help it fall, as quickly as possible.
How about a Biden presidency? It would bring the end sooner and be very entertaining.
Henry,
Yes, there are no guarantees. But I do think that a Hillary win might well hasten the crisis — and my feeling is that if it’s coming, better to have it come sooner rather than later, before the qualities needed for rebuilding have been completely subdued and extinguished in the people of the West.
Troy,
Agreed. Or better yet, how about Al Sharpton? That would move things along briskly.
Any idea where to get a
Hillary-Sharpton In 2016 bumper stickers
Maybe about Eight or Ten Thousand of ’em?
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Only reason I ask is what, with the rout of papers Our Arkansas Paper Boys need a Mission.
Remember The Hillary-Sharpton Alamo !!!
Might I reckon, fire up what’s left to be fired up.
Remember.
There’s only 600 or so days left before we get to the fucking polls.
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Henry?
A Priest and a Rabbi are standing on a street corner when a little boy runs past; Priest says, “Lets screw him!”
Rabbi says, “Outta what?”
I won’t enumerate them here,
It helps if you use exponents.
I was only 9 in 1975 but wasn’t there an “inevitable” candidate then. I want to say Ted Kennedy. I don’t think Hillary is going to get the nomination either.
Anti-Hillary posters popped up with hours after she announced. This can’t bode well for an “inevitable” candidate.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/anti-clinton-posters-hit-new-york-las-vegas/
Malcolm,
Again, anything is possible, but I submit that your line of reasoning is of a second order probability (i.e., a lower order probability).
The reason I think so is that your positive outcome is of an indirect nature — it requires a specific sequence of events. Whereas voting for a positive outcome is a direct action.