No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Sore Loserwoman

It's very sad, but nowadays whenever Hillary Clinton appears on my TV screen or I hear her voice on the radio, I have the same reaction I used to have to Margaret Thatcher: "Oh god, why won't that bloody woman go away."

I still have some grudging respect for her. She's tough, resourceful, and in this campaign at least, she never - NEVER - quits. If Al Gore or John Kerry had fought one-tenth as hard against George Bush Junior, we'd have been spared at least four nightmare years of the extreme right's corruption, criminality and incompetence.

However, she's made it plain that her personal ambition trumps everything, the good of the country and the Democratic party be damned. Her arguments as to why the rules should be changed and the voters should be ignored are getting increasingly shrill, desperate and unhinged.

For one thing, Hillary's crowing about winning big states is disingenuous. Apart from Texas, the big states are solidly blue anyway. But because of our undemocratic electoral college system, small states have disproportionate power, and the fact that Obama wins them is a big plus for him.

It's even more disingenuous, and self-deluding, for Clinton to congratulate herself for attracting the votes of more conservative, more religious, lower income and less educated white voters. Let's face it, these people are voting for Hillary because Obama is black. In the general election, they will desert her and vote for McCain.

And of course her demands that the rules be changed with regard to Florida and Michigan - after she refused to play by the rules, she now wants to punish Obama for following them - just shriek of an overweening sense of entitlement that very much rubs me the wrong way. She asks why Obama can't "close the deal". Well, let's remember that she was originally supposed to come down in glory to claim the throne, squash Obama like a bug, and have the whole thing wrapped up by Super Tuesday. Why did she never come close to sealing the deal?

My greatest fear is that once Obama gets the nomination, the Clintons will actively sabotage him and work to hand the election to John McCain, so that Clinton can run again in 2012. That would be a crime against humanity! The world is on the brink with climate collapse, oil depletion, and neonazi-con induced geopolitical turmoil. We cannot afford to give Junior four more years, or even four more minutes, of a third term.

Three more points to bear in mind. First, I guarantee that if Hillary steals the nomination, her Karl Rove attacks against Obama will disappear instantly, and she will be all sweetness and light to McCain - he's so experienced, he would make a wonderful Commander in Chief, and so on.

Also, it's difficult for those of us in the reality-based community to understand the incredible depths of frenzied, mouth-foaming rage and hatred that the mere mention of the name Clinton evokes in the lunatic extreme right. Any conservatard who has died in the last twenty years will come crawling out of his grave to vote against Hillary.

Finally, if Billary succeeds in twisting arms in the smoke-filled back rooms of the convention and snatching the nomination from Obama, the result will be a tidal wave of disgust and resentment from a huge segment of Democratic voters. They will stay at home on Election Day, McCain will win in a landslide, and his coattails will bring in legions of brain-rotted ultra-far-right maniacs, plus the Supreme Court will be turned at a stroke into a rubber stamp for the most extreme forms of theocracy and corporatism.

After eight ghastly years of the worst administration ever, this election should be a foregone conclusion. The only way the Democrats can lose is by nominating Hillary Clinton.