Letters to the Editor
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Hillary, the greedy Marxist
A couple of you think that it is not possible to be a greedy Marxist. That is silly:
Hillary wants money for herself, but wants the gov't to make choices for you. Hillary wants to live the good life, living in gov't-provided homes in Arkansas and DC, driven and escorted around by gov't-provided security, cooked for, flown around in private airplanes, etc.
However she also wants the gov't to make decisions about your education, health care, retirement.
She doesn't believe in the fundamental goodness of average Americans and thinks that they are too stupid to make decisions for themselves. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that she is Marx without the idealism.
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Get it Right
"The conventional wisdom is that Hillary cannot possibly win the general presidential election because she is too unpopular or even "hated" by 40% of the electorate."
This is wrong wrong wrong. For one thing "conventional wisdom" ie the bullshit being spewed by the corporate media, says Hillary is the inevitable nominee. Only recently, with her troubles in Iowa have you been able to hear anyone talk about the very existence of doubts among unnamed people about Hillary as a viable candidate.
A Zogby poll showed 50% of likely voters saying that they WOULD NEVER CONSIDER VOTING FOR HILLARY. It's not 40%, silly guy. We are idiots on the Titanic if we can't escape this slow motion iceberg aproaching us.
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Ridcouous
Whar makes Rudy or anyone else think Hillary is gong to be the Democrats candidate beat. Obama is up in the polls, and the Polls show Obmam has a better chance o beating any repbuican.
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Voter turn-out decides elections
Voter turn-out decides the elections. It's not whether more people would vote for X or Y, it's whether X or Y inspires his/her supporters to go to the polls in greater numbers. The Republicans have a much better organized grassroots get out the vote apparatus. While the Democrats and progressive groups have made a tremendous effort to catch up such that I do not think that will be the deciding factor. I think people vote out of love or hate and they stay home in apathy.
Most of the Republican candidates have a lot of apathy inducing traits. Rudy is a pro-choice, cross dressing divorced Catholic who is hated by a lot of the New York City Fire Department. These traits will not inspire voters to the polls. Perhaps hatred of Hillary will convince voters to get out and vote. But that's what's interesting about the article. If Hillary can cool the anti-Clinton sentiment enough that apathy engulfs the Republican base then she's the best candidate to win.
That said, I think that it's really early to be calling this the Rudy/Hillary show. I think that both nominations are still completely in play.
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Hillary a Marxist?
Bloody hell! It is funny (albeit in a sad kind of way) to see right wingers throwing the term Marxist around. I am not a betting man, but I would wager that most of people accusing others of being a "Marxist" (whatever that means anyways) wouldn't know who Marx was, and what the main themes of his socio-economic theories and published works were. Even if Das Kapital was to bite them in the arse.
So please, get on with the times... this whole "Marxist" as an accusation motif is soooo early XX century. I am sure right wingers can do better than reusing the same memes than their great grandfathers used. Or are they really that incompetent? I guess hemophilia is not the only side effect of blue blood, mental retardation seems to be rampant regardless of continent whenever the upper crust reuses their genetic material to avoid the taint of them commoners making all the fodder.
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TweedleDUh or TweedleDumb
America needs a good old jolt of less government and more liberty which is just the opposite of what either a Judy Goulliani or Billary Clinton presidency would bring.
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Adlai's Revenge
You can scratch Rudy and all of the other bald candidates off of the "electable" list. Seriously. U.S. voters will not elect a bald man President. I'm not saying that's fair, I'm just saying.
The GOP knows this, of course, so it will either nominate Mitt Romney, or it will nominate John McCain and then try to convince the electorate that McCain has a full head of hair, even though our "lyin' eyes" tell us that he doesn't (and by the way, please ignore that unsightly bulge in his cheek).
Hillary's a wild card because she's female, and not so much because she's Hillary. I wish her gender wasn't an issue, but it will be if she gets the nomination.
When Liddy Dole ran for the GOP nomination in 2000, she ran as the anti-Hillary. That didn't work out too well for Liddy.
There are many anti-Hillary voters, but there is no anti-Hillary candidate--that is, there is no candidate who can win solely with an anti-Hillary platform. And yes, I readily acknowledge that I'm not the first to say that.
Youthful male enthusiasm, even if it's only skin-deep, wins every time in the U.S. Back in 2000, Al Gore still had some of his youthful looks, but he was, as he always will be, an "old soul." That contrast creeped out the shallow Americans who were, in turn, attracted to the infantile George W. Bush.
Barack Obama, if nominated, would beat any repub nominee hands-down. And he would do it for the same reasons that Bill Clinton did it in '92 and '96. The trick is for Obama to make a successful transition from being "Hillary's Nemesis" to "Bill's Younger Brother."
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Good Thinking
Less gummint is the answer. That is really going to fix our lopsided economy where 1% own half of everything. What did else the 20th century teach us more blatantly than the uses and misuses of gov't?
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Karl Marx
A liberal is someone who has read Karl Marx.
A conservative is someone who understands Karl Marx.
--Ronald Reagan
Anyway, we can throw away the labels and ask: Should the people who brought you the DMV, and created the worst high schools in the western world provide your health care?
The Dems say 'yes', the GOP says 'no'.
(FYI, Washington DC spends 10k per student and they are among the worst in the whole US!)