The Truth Hurts

I've been told that on this blog I have, from time to time, been pretty hard to Hillary Clinton. Some have mentioned a limbo picture as being in poor taste, for example. But I have been a supporter of Clinton for years and that has made it all the harder as this primary "battle royal" has gone on and on, for no apparent reason.

Bill Clinton is all over the place complaining about people telling Hillary to leave the race and people are falling all over themselves to say they never meant that, but why they lie in this way I don't know. Most pundits have been saying she should leave the race and for quite a while now. Bill talks about how others have stayed in races longer and not been asked to leave, but he misses a simple truth about that. People who have something to add to the conversation are always welcome to stay as long as they feel the need. However, Hillary Clinton has nothing to add to the conversation; her policies are almost identical to Obama's. She is not a Dennis Kucinch, who articulates a point of view not shared by other candidates.

You are also free to stay if you spend that time talking policy differences. But Clinton does not do that, she has spent her "extra" time in personal attacks on the candidate that is going to win the nomination, to the benefit of no one in her own party. Yes Bill, others have been allowed to stay, but they understood the rules involved in doing so and played within those guidelines. Hillary has not done this and that is why she should have left the campaign long ago. All she has done in recent months is make it that much harder for her to become the nominated candidate for any position. All she has done is hurt herself and her party and her country.

What her staying in for so long past the point of good taste has demonstrated is that 1) she has a hard time accepting reality when that reality sucks, 2) so far in debt she shows she is incompetent in fiscal management, 3) like George Bush she will rely on others to attempt to body-slam her opponents when she is not getting things her way, 4) since her excuse for some of her recent gaffes is that she was "tired,' it makes you wonder how she would answer the phone at 3:00 AM, and 5) she is just not ready to be President of the United States.

Lastly, and this has been my contention for quite a while, what she does bring to the mix, that Obama does not, is the loathing of a great number of Republicans. Republicans have little to no incentive to go to the polls in November. The Christian right hates McCain, conservatives hate McCain, active military people hate McCain. Except for Joe Lieberman the whole country pretty much dislikes the guy and Republicans are not going to turn out to elect him. This means they will also not turn out to keep Republican seats in the House and the Senate in Republican hands; the top of the ticket is always the draw, or lack there-of. However, Republicans will turn out in mass to vote against Hillary Clinton; they dislike her much more than they don't-give-a-shit about McCain. For the sake of the party and the country she professes to care so deeply about, she must not be anywhere near the Democratic ticket. Her name is toxic to her professed cause.

She continues, even today, to foolishly argue that she is "more electable" and that is just plain nonsense. She make McCain more electable. In the words of Bob Dole: "You know it. I know it. The American people know it." Will someone please let Hillary in on the truth.