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Hillary, the Goldwater Girl
Everyone knows that Hillary was a Goldwater Girl in 1964. That fact must be taken into consideration when evaulating her refusal to run against GWB in 2004 and her efforts to destroy Barack Obama in 2008. The conclusion is clear: she has always been a Goldwater Girl. If she were to be illegitamately nominated (the only way she can be the nominee), she will destroy the Democratic Party, she will drive African-Americans from the Democratic Party, she would drive the under-40 voters out of the Democratic Party, and she will hand the WH and the House of Representatives to the GOP. In other words, she is the perfect Manchurin-like candidate... she remains a Goldwater Girl in sheep's clothing.
Comments (11)
How dare you reveal that the Emperor wears no clothes?
March 8, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do dare speak the truth.
March 9, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You do realize that you're using exactly the Rovian tactic the right wingers will about Obama's youth, using drugs in Chicago or his stepfather in Indonesia or whatever?
Not that I think it works, because most people believe people can change (i.e., Hillary worked on Nixon impeachment only a few years later, Obama didn't continue to take drugs,) so carry on with the nonsense if it makes you feel better.
March 8, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing Rovian about it... nothing in her (nor Bill's) so-called 35 years of experience suggests she is in any way progressive. Let's face it, the DLC crowd are nothing more the GOPers in Dem clothes.
March 9, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good grief.!
Make it stop!
March 8, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stop speaking the truth, never!!!!!!!!!!
March 9, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Read this, it will clear things up:
"In Turmoil of ’68, Clinton Found a New Voice" New York Times 9/5/2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?pagewanted=print
March 8, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since the intellectually dishonest poster above is probably incapable of clicking a link:
"As the nation boiled over Vietnam, civil rights and the slayings of two charismatic leaders, Ms. Rodham was completing a sweeping intellectual, political and stylistic shift. She came to Wellesley as an 18-year-old Republican, a copy of Barry Goldwater’s right-wing treatise, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” on the shelf of her freshman dorm room. She would leave as an antiwar Democrat whose public rebuke of a Republican senator in a graduation speech won her notice in Life magazine as a voice for her generation."
Laura Bush is a traditional First Lady, trained as a librarian, who picks a couple of innocuous causes to promote. No comparison.
March 9, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I’m confused, the link offered was in opposition to the allegations stated on the blog. So you telling me I’m “intellectually dishonest” in pointing out that regardless of the beliefs Hillary had upon leaving for college, the turbulence of her time shaped her beliefs, and those same beliefs remained with her for life. We are permitted to change, most especially if our intellectual reasoning points in another direction. I did read the article, in fact, it provides strong reasons for the honesty of her own transformation.
March 9, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
AJM's post was aimed at me. But yes, we are allowed to change. However, there is nothing in HRC's record that indicates that she has changed.
March 9, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary has not changed; she is a conservative at heart.
A fundamental characteristic of a conservative is the fueherprinzip... you do not question authority. She did NOT question GWB's assertions for going to war in Iraq. She didn't even read the available intelligence. She didn't even question the central neo-con ideology that the United States should tell (by force, if necessary) how things should be.
Another fundamental characteristic of a conservatice is the asssertion there is only one solution to anything... and that solution is my solution and if you don't like it, you're evil. I think 7 years of this with GWB is enough.
Finally, the NYT article simply confirms the malady which has brought this country to its knees today: the Vietnam/Civil Rights PTSD of the boomer generation, HRC's and my generation... some of us grew up and dealt with it... others, like HRC & GWB, never did. Folks, it is time to get over Vietnam.
My posting simply ties her past, her record, and her present together as a unified whole. It is simply time to move beyond the 1960s to 2008. HRC's thinking is old -- it has nothing to do with her being 60 years old... it has to do with an old way of thinking, the same old way of thinking that has plagued this country for 20 years.
March 9, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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