Hillary's Inevitability

Here's the meme that will get her the nomination and probably the White House:

What are you people afraid of... A strong woman, a large prosperous middle class? Health Care for Everyone??? A stable economy?

A win for Hilary is a win for the majority of Americans. I personally have had enough of the extremes and would be happy to have a more balanced middle candidate.

I for one am tired of Conservative and Liberal weeping and complaining. Lets find some compromise and rebuild this country.

(A commenter at HuffPost)

She's perceived as the safe candidate, the known quantity. She's my last choice among the candidates but I don't know that I really care at this point.  She's the one most likely to keep the war dragging on, but the others would probably be forced to keep dragging it on as well. You can talk all you want about removing the troops now, but the reality is too many important people want this thing to drag on. We live in a ceremonial democracy now, and what most Americans and the politicians who represent them becomes increasingly irrelevant with each election cycle.

Comments

[Matt Zemek]

It's deeply ironic, Jack, that much as Democratic Party voters seem to be voting for Hillary out of some severely misplaced sense of both electability and sympathy (Hillary being a woman and a wife who didn't leave her husband), the exact same thing is happening on the Republican side with Giuliani. 9/11--remembered by all Americans viscerally but investigated and probed only by a few--is a deeply-embedded emotional reason for Giuliani's ascendancy.

You have the strange reality of both anti-war, Naderite progressives and Dobsonite, Robertsonian zombie traditionalists feeling that their political party is ditching purity in the name of power and corporate/lobbying leverage.

Funny how that works. Funnier still how the parties don't come back to the "pure" positions and remain invested in entrenched power, without accountability or sanction from the larger body politic.

[Michael Primont]

Say what you want but remember what happened in 2000 when so many people on the left thought that a choice between Bush and Gore was a choice between tweedle dee and tweedle dum.

If you're feeling disenchanted don't just give it away this time. Hold your nose and vote, and then keep up the noise.

[Jack Whelan]

Michael--

I'll hold my nose after the convention and vote for her in the general election. Until then HC needs to be exposed. (But in a nice way.)

My working assumption for now is that the Republicans lose the '08 election cycle. I am more concerned about '10 and '12, when the rightwingers energized by another Clinton to kick around, will storm the fort once again. She will not have the credibility or gravitas to withstand the harassment from the right, and will accomplish nothing. The only positive thing we will have to say about her presidency is that she wasn't George Bush. That's not nothing, but we can do better.