Today’s lead story in The Wall Street
Journal is about the result of its latest poll regarding Hillary
Clinton. It says a lot about why she and the leaders of the Democratic Party
must surely hold its core members in contempt. “Support for her among Democrats
remains strong and unshaken.”
In the seven weeks since she announced her candidacy to be the next
President of the United States and then virtually vanished from view, the news
about her destroying private emails that should have been public records and
the shenanigans of hers and Bill’s foundation have taken their toll.
The share of people with a negative view of Hillary says the Journal
“jumped to 42% from 36%” and “only a quarter of registered voters said they
view her as honest and straightforward, down from 38% last summer.” Only a
quarter? You mean that many people still think
she’s honest?
As Peter Wehner
opined in Commentary “the depths of the Clinton’s corruption and avarice is
stunning” noting that “The Clintons have known for years that Hillary would run
for president—and yet they still undertook this transparently unethical and
potentially politically catastrophic action” referring to their foundation’s
actions and the “deletion of 30,000 emails, another breathtaking inappropriate,
and possibly illegal act.”
The track record of the Democratic Party at this early point in the 2016
campaigns makes one ask why anyone would still support it, its lone candidate,
and its representatives. The economy has been in the tank for the whole of the
Obama administration, the same one that a Democrat-controlled Congress foisted
ObamaCare on the nation without ever having read the bill.
The President’s primary obsessions these days are making sure Iran gets
to have a nuclear arsenal, extending diplomatic recognition to Cuba, the
leading Communist nation in our hemisphere, and making sure that our southern
border remains so porous that thousands of illegal aliens can gain access.
I would be happy to tell you what Hillary’s objectives and policies are,
but other than repeating the same old, failed liberal crap of the past, there’s
nothing specific to identify. Does she want to “help the poor”, “protect the
middle class”, et cetera? Well, sure she does. As to anything else, her opinion
today is often in direct opposition to her opinion of yesterday. She’s not saying
much and with reason; as often as not she makes a fool of herself in the
process.
If you were a leader in the Democratic Party would you take a dim view
of those who vote to keep your candidates in office? Would you, however, even
once ask why the Party is unable to produce more than one candidate for
President (forget Bernie Sanders—he’s a Socialist who votes with the Democratic
caucus) at this point?
And who is that candidate? It is a former First Lady who has spent her
entire life in politics riding the coattails of her husband, a charming rascal
who has cheated on her for decades. Together they have been in more scandals
than can be listed here.
They may have been “dead broke” when they left the White House, but they
now own two houses and are worth millions, not the least because as Obama’s
Secretary of State the foundation took in millions in donations and Bill took
in millions to give speeches, often from the same donors. Was the U.S. foreign
policy purchased over her four years? Was the security of the emails she was
sending breached? Definitely. Can you name a single treaty or major foreign
policy achievement of Hillary Clinton’s service as Secretary of State? Neither
can she.
Pause now and compare that the dynamism of the Republican Party. As Gov.
Mike Huckabee announces today, its slate of presidential candidates is as
lively a group as one can imagine. The Party has asserted control in Congress
to the point where the White House knows it no longer has free reign to destroy
the nation in every imaginable way.
That’s why voters will in 2016 likely rebuke the Democratic Party in an
electoral bloodbath. It’s why the voices within and beyond the Party should be
calling for Hillary to step aside. It won’t happen, but it should.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
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