Letters to the Editor
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She's Given them all the Bullets and They're Loaded For Bear
The Republican establishment (which has learned not to trust me but can't help trying to take me down with them) has very carefully calculated the odds with Clinton vs. Obama and know very, very well which one they can take down with greater ease. She's already provided all the ammunition and she keeps on doing it. She is, unfortunately, so simultaneously desperate and arrogant that only One Big Screwup (which probably just recently happened) is all it will take to break loose the dammed-up "forgotten stuff" from those eight years we lived with the Clintons under seige.
There is a huge payback to be had here, something that Obama cannot possibly compete with (nor should he want to), and so the Republican mainstream has effectively backed off Hillary so that she will continue to stroke her presumptive (if delusional) opponent in November with comments like her "Commander in Chief" Tourette's Moment Number...what... 78? She just keeps on saying things that are being collected and integrated with the existing Clintonia database. You know, that stuff they all "forgot"?
This is not a criticism of Hillary Clinton as a person (although it certainly is an observation on her political acumen or lack of it): it is a statement of fact about the Republican Party in its present incarnation. This is what will happen. She will get beaten within an inch of her political life. Obama has been incredibly slick up til now, even when one counts the "Crazy Uncle" crap, which is essentially unusable to the opposition. Yeah, I know, but really, it is unuseable. Hide and watch.
This time I'm not simply promoting my chosen candidate, I am pointing out that the alternative would spell disaster for all of us, Democrat and Republican, who care more about country than party or ideology. Hillary Clinton is busy driving the nails into her own coffin lid. This is not a good way to run a campaign. Crazy Uncles can't even come close to doing the kind of damage the hubris-driven Clinton campaign has (and will), and if she does win, while I will vote for her, I will do it with that feeling one gets when the elevator stops between floors.