RE: Clintons ruling the world?
You know, John Kerry didn't fool ANYBODY that he was a pro-second amendment, pro-hunter politician. Let me amend my remark . . . he didn't fool any gun owners or hunters. Adults ought to be able to discriminate a wolf in sheep's clothing from a sheep. The notion that anyone is going to be deluded that Hillary Clinton (1) is supportive of churches, religion, or faith based anything; (2) is against abortion; (3) is pro-second amendment, etc., is bogus. Precious few will be fooled, and others who see her cynical posturing may swing away from her on this basis.
I think when the chips are down, the voters will discern Hillary -- or any other politician -- for what they are. Voters are not stupid, and politicians are not as persuasive as they think they are. Howard Dean evidently thinks the Democrats just didn't do a good enough job getting their message across. No. People don't trust talk; talk is cheap; deeds speak more deeply than words. John Kerry was defeated on his record, on who he was. It would not have mattered if he told us he was really Mahatma Gandhi or Jesus Christ or George Washington, why? BECAUSE he is not those people and we know who he is!!! Ditto with Hillary.
Hillary is more competent at politics, howeve, than John Kerry, and this may be ground for concern. I just hope that (1) Bush's foreign policy will have been more fully vindicated in three years and the Democrats's virulent opposition thereto more fully charged against them; (2) the biased major media will be even more fully discredited than they are now and not able to boost the Democrats; and (3) more people discern their vital interests (2nd amendment rights, national security concerns, fiscal concerns) and associate those interests with the Republican party. Relative to point (3), Winston Churchill said that to not be a liberal when one is twenty is to be heartless while to not be a conservative when one is forty is to be stupid. Our population is aging. There are more old people -- people with experience paying taxes, paying mortgages, sending their kids to public schools, etc. -- proportionally to young people than formerly. This, I think, benefits the Republicans.
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