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Hillary to Run as Independent
While the Clinton campaign is keeping this news close to the vest, sources here in Connecticut close to Joe Lieberman have revealed that Hillary is seriously considering an Independent bid for the White House.
The Clinton campaign sees John McCain as a very weak candidate & believes that they can beat him & Barack Obama in a 3-way race. They have arrived at this conclusion after a series of lengthy consultations with Sen. Lieberman, a long time friend & supporter of the Clintons. Despite his support of McCain, sources tell us that Lieberman was surprisingly frank with the Clinton people. He sees a lot of similarities between this presidential race & his successful independent run for the Senate just 2 years ago against a weak Republican candidate &an ultra-liberal Democratic nominee.
Although Lieberman believes that McCain would be the best president for the country, he is strongly of the mind that America is not ready for an Afrcian-American president - even an Ivy League educated one with a white mother. "I marched in Selma & Birmingham in the '60's, but I certainly didn't do so to open the door to this kind of ultra-left wing politics," Lieberman is quoted as saying, adding that Obama's plan to precipitously withdraw troops from Iraq make him no friend of Israel. He is convinced that Hillary would be a much better president for Israel.
Having listened to Lieberman, Hillary & her people now agree with him that identifying herself as an "Independent Democrat" is the way to go. Their assessment is that Clinton & Lieberman could form the nucleus of a new third party movement that would be built around a coalition of hard working whites & pro-Israeli militarists, who are clearly the centrist voters who have determined all American elections since 1824. (You may remember that 1824 was the election decided by the infamous "Corrupt Bargain" in the House of Representatives in favor of John Quincy Adams, thereby denying the presidency to Andrew Jackson who won the popular vote in a 4-way general election.)
According to one unnamed source close to Bill Clinton: "The beauty of this approach is that even if Hillary loses her bid for the White House as a Lieberman-style Independent Democrat, she can still caucus with the Democrats in the Senate & will successfully seek the position of Democrtic Majority Leader. Most Democrats realize that the party no longer represents Hard Working White America & that Obama has only obtained the nomination by rigging the vote in the caucus states & by exploiting his advantage as a black man with the liberal media."
In a final note on the matter, our sources have revealed that Geraldine Ferraro has agreed to run as Vice President. Our source commented: "The first all-female ticket will be both ground breaking & historic. Since women are more than 50% of the electorate, a Rodham-Clinton/Ferraro-Zaccaro combination would be unstoppable. In addition to the life time of experience that Rep. Ferraro will bring to the campaingn, she will consolidate support with the all important Mafia vote."
Because the Constitution does not permit two candidates from the same state to run as President & Vice President, Ferraro will follow the example of current VP Dick Cheney & will change her legal residence to Florida where she maintains a seond home. Ferraro insists that any similarities to Cheney will end there. "I certainly have no plans to shoot anyone in the face any time soon," she joked with some media insiders who are in the know about the Clinton plan, "but I do plan to change my historic opposition to gun regulation because it is just not compatible with the views of Hard Working White American Centrists, whose views most representat the America I stand for." She added that the change in her position on gun regulation will enable her to join Hillary on hunting trips in Central Park during the upcoming campaingn.
Hillary plans to take this campaign all the way to the election in November & beyond, so we will keep you advised as new developments become available to us. God bless America, the land of the free & the home of the brave . . . as long as they are hard working & white.
Comments (23)
I'm not buying any of it.
May 15, 2008 8:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
And neither am I. She has repeatedly said she will support whoever gets the Democratic nomination. Even if you thought she were self-serving enough to do this, you'd have to think she's also quite stupid, as there's no way she'd actually win running as an independent. (I know it's been done before, but it most definitely wouldn't work in these circumstances.)
May 15, 2008 8:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please don't tell me you missed the snark in that post.
May 15, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dear God, I hope you're right.
The real tragedy here is that this story could well be authentic. (Though I don't think it is) I certainly wouldn't be shocked if this was Hillary's plan.
Say hello to President McCain if it's true.
May 15, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
What can I say? I didn't get much sleep last night, and I didn't read for comprehension.
May 15, 2008 9:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's a joke, Sweetie. :)
May 15, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
OMFG! when will this meme die the death it so richly deserves.
Hillary Clinton may be many things suicidal is not one of them.
Bill loves being a party elder and leader, while some of that has deminished over the course of this campaign, it will come back during the GE campaign.
Hillary still has her Senate seat, this would go away, NY would vote her out as sure as I am sitting here.
She cannot win, pure and simple. All she can do is spoil. At which point she becomes a Nader.
Finally where is she going to get the money?
May 15, 2008 9:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Foxie, it's tongue firmly in cheek. Satire.
If you think that my post is ridiculous - which it is - then just onsider it a reflection on the ridiculousness of the lengths to which the Clinton campaign had gone to "stay in the race" and "take it all the way to the convention."
As an aside, I'm a Connecticut resident & Joe Lieberman is one of my favorite punching bags & has been for most of his career in the Senate. I was an early fan, but he lost me with the first Gulf War. He's also terrible on constituent service.
May 15, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
This year, satire is almost impossible. It's just so hard to write anything that's so over the top that everyone immediately understands that it isn't for real.
May 15, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
That reminds of a quote from the late Art Bechwald that went something like:
"It used to be easy to write my column. I'd just think of something ridiculous & write it down. However, now when I try to write my coumn it's not so easy becasue reality is often more absurd than anything I can imagine."
Buchwald made this comment back in the '70's. things have changed a lot in the past 30 years.
After Reagan was elected in 1980 & ushered in a decade of selfishness & greed, at various times during the next 8 years I would often think back to 1969 wehn I was standing on the Washington Mall, one of 400,000 that day protesting the Vietnam War. I wondered where all of those people had gone & where these conservatives who replaced them had come from. I wondered if everyone had just changed except me.
Twenty-five years later, it's nice to know that there are some good people still left in the world.
May 15, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ugh. Call me slow on the up take.... everybody else does :)
I have to go now and see where I left my sense of humor. I know it's here somewhere.
May 15, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
You realy had me right up to the part about the Mafia vote. That was priceless.
May 15, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, you disagree that the Mafia vote is one of the keys to this election? Hmmm . . .
May 15, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
It all sounds plausible to a newbie like me. She seems just crazy enough for 90% of what you wrote.
May 15, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's not you, newbie. She is crazy!
Why else would she have stayed with Bill all these years. Regardless of whether we liked him as president - and many of us did - he has not been a very good husband.
And what has been her purpose of dragging this thing out? What is the higher principle that she has been fighting for? What does she stand for?
If John Edwards had stayed in the race this long, I would have understood. I've met him. He's a man on a mission. He wants to eradicate the kind of poverty that he saw all around him growing up. He wants to restore dignity to the working man & woman like his father, mother, & grandparents - all of whom he loves dearly. He has a good heart & his love for them has been extended to everyone he sees who is like them.
But Hillary a woman on a mission? I just don't see it. And I son't see whom she's fighting for - other than herself.
May 15, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, she's running as a co-dependent.
May 15, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very insightful, Articleman. Care to elaborate?
May 15, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clever post. It fools you at first. And each of us seems to have finally "got it" with some impossible tidbit or another.
Well Done!
May 15, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
May 15, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did Joe Lieberman really say those things about Obama?
Looks like my childhood hatred for that man from his anti-video game days hasn't gone in vain.
May 15, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Joe did not say those things. I made them up. But they are certainly consistent with his behaviour.
As a resient of CT, I am embarassed to have him represent me in the Senate.
For anyone who doesn't know it, "Independent Democrat" Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic vote in his 2006 reelection to the Senate. He lost it not only in the primary, but he lost it in the general election as well. However, Lieberman did win the Republican vote - overwhelmingly - and he did win the Independent vote - barely.
This guy is a Republican now with close ties to the Wall Street crowd. Hence, he calls himslef "a pro-business Democrat." He is not pro-business. He is pro-big money. He is a corporate lackey.
He opposed the nominee of the Democratic Party for the Senate in 2006. He is actively campaigning for the Republican nominee-to-be for president, once again working against the nominee of his party. He has supported Republican positions so fervently that Bush has paraded him in front of the country as "proof" of bipartisanship.
Let's call this guy what he is - a Republican. Elected by Republicans & seving the interests of Big business Republicans.
When will the Democrats wake up & throw this guy out of the party. Caucus with the Democrats? Committee chairmanship for seniority? Harry Reid has no spine.
Joe Lieberman is a traitor. He is the real Judas walking around Washington. He can't be gone fast enough for my taste. I can't stomach the guy any more.
May 17, 2008 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
As a hard working white American I deeply resent hard working white Americans. And, yes, I am bitter.
You can be assured that when I cast my vote for Independent Democrat Hillary Clinton in November I will pray first and take my gun to the polling place in case I meet any foreigners. I am not prejudiced but a black man will only get my vote when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
May 15, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
IT is entirely possible that Hillary could win as an Independent, but in my view she'd have to have a moderate Repub. Guv as her Veep and run to the middle. No problem there. I get her to 283 Electoral votes. See the math at:
http://www.itallstartedwithahat.com/2008/05/hillary-clinton-announces-independent.html#comments
May 18, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
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