Art of Conservatism---On the Democrat
side......
My, what a difference eight years
makes.
In 2008, no Republican stood out as
Presidential material, and The GOP had to cobble up a really poor
candidate named McCain to even get a candidate at all---while on the
Democrat side, a candidate who had only charisma going for him swept
to the White House in a breeze, and thus began the downward slide of
These United States on the World Stage. The abominations since that
time are legion. Many books (like unto the length and breadth of the
“Left Behind” series, even) will be written in future years,
about these last eight.
So, as this is being written, it is
the last year of that eight-year nightmare (at least, for most of us,
hopefully it is) and oh, how events have turned 180°!
It is the Democrat party that is having trouble fielding a truly
viable candidate. Do you really think they have, with Hillary and
Bernie? Oh, come, now!
My
lovely wife Kathy was raised as a Chicago Machine Democrat and is proud
of it, but even she is having serious reservations herself about Hillary.
In her own words, “She has an incredible amount of political
baggage”.
Indeed.
Most of Hillary's issues are by now well-known: that private server
thing, with the resulting damage to our nation's security, just for
starters. Then there are the FBI investigations which, to hear tell
of that, are so overwhelmingly conclusive that, if an indictment, or
more factually, a series of indictments, are not forthcoming, there
will
be leaks to the press (which, in case nobody's noticing, have already
started; check out Katherine Herridge at Fox News). Then there's all
the other 'stuff': The Clinton Foundation, Bill and his, uh,
improprieties, which, far as most of us are concerned, need no
further enumeration, and now, increasingly, questions surrounding
Hillary's health. This is not robust Presidential material here. Add
to that the possible scandal, just emerging, about Hillary 'rigging'
the Dem Convention with all those 'super delegates' already in her
hip pocket? Sounds like a serious problem with We The People, just
looking at it. Think that Hillary is into it just for the power and
her greed for cash? Well, maybe.
Anecdote:
An long-ago friend of mine, who shall remain anonymous, once told me
about working in the State Department back in the 90's. This person mentioned to me
about how Hillary would come down to the files section and, by 'pulling
rank', if you will, demand to go through the dossiers of folks
she considered to be 'political enemies'. I didn't know that the DOS
even had such a 'files unit', but there, allegedly, was Hillary, rummaging
through them, apparently looking for 'ammunition'. The description I
got of the Clintons back then from those who knew them was
succinct: “Bill's a bubba and Hillary's a bitch”. Oooooooooh.....?
And
then, I give you Bernie Sanders....please. Do you want to see an
American Flag with its field of stars replaced by a hammer and
sickle? (or some
such which?) Would you like to have a President who spent his
honeymoon with his second wife in the Soviet Union, and
Cuba?
A President who never had a paying job until he was almost 40, and
then it was a government job? A president who would nationalize
(i.e., steal) many of our major industries, as he has promised he
would do? A President who would mandate free college education (of
the indoctrinational type) for anyone who'd want it, without caring
who gets to foot the bill? Then there you go, Bernie's your guy.
In
short, either candidate now running for to the job of Democrat
Standard Bearer would continue this country's slow descent in to the
abyss. Just what we need.
I
have a question: Are you all better off now than you were eight years
ago? I doubt it, unless you're a crony capitalist. You know, the ones
who give capitalism a bad name. Oh, I shouldn't have said that.
Right.
But
wait, there's more: Joe Biden. The one who could save the Democrat
Party this time around, and chose not to. Well, Joe, it's getting to
be pretty late to get into the game now. Most of the states have
Presidential candidate filing windows, the closing of which are
coming up pretty fast, and a couple of which have already passed. Joe,
if you're not in the game by, say, end of March, it
ain't gonna happen for you, and the Democrat Party will be left
with.... uh, them.
Then
what? Let's say Hillary is indicted before the Dem Convention,
virtually eliminating her as a candidate for the highest office in
the Land, the most power position on the planet. That leaves just Bernie as your candidate. If that happens, expect a withering campaign from the Republican nominee and an energized party, and possibly
a Republican victory in the fall.
Even
worse: Let's say that Hillary is
nominated
at the Dem Convention, and then
she's indicted. Then what? The only saving grace for the Dems at that
point, would be if she would choose Joe Biden as a running mate. That
would do it. But that's only if he's chosen to be Veep. Does the
Constitution prohibit a Vice President from running for a third term?
If so, than it's anyone's guess as to what would happen.
The bottom
line is, that with the Democrat Party in such disarray, and the
Republicans energized, and gathering support nationwide, things
aren't looking good for the party of Jefferson, Jackson, or Barack Obama this time around.
Or, if I may be so bold to say, for those politicos on the Republican
side who've been into office for themselves all these years. If
that's not the way to bet, it's certainly the way to pray.
What a difference eight years makes, indeed.
For
Art of Conservatism, I'm Art Reis
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