HilLary Taught Us Something Yesterday; Will We Learn This Lesson?
By haystack Posted in 2008 | Dems Must Lose | GOP | Ties That Bind — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
In her concession speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton said something we November 2008 Republican voters better be paying attention to:
I understand that we all know this has been a tough fight, but the Democratic Party is a family. And now it's time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish, and the country we love.
We may have started on separate journeys, but today our paths have merged. And we're all heading toward the same destination, united and more ready than ever to win in November and to turn our country around, because so much is at stake.
We all want an economy that sustains the American dream, the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford that gas and those groceries, and still have a little left over at the end of the month, an economy that lifts all of our people and ensures that our prosperity is broadly distributed and shared.
Well, ok-she lost me at "broadly distributed and shared"...but that's not the point. We, the GOP, have surely become a dysfunctional family and much of that truth is self-inflicted.
Fine.
But if we don't get real serious real fast, and restore those ties that bind, Obama is going to be President, Congress will enjoy 2 veto-proof houses, and we're all going to be sitting around wondering what the hell we did to ourselves. Pay close attention to her comment here:
Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years if we'd had a Democratic president. Think about the lost opportunities of these past seven years on the environment and the economy, on health care and civil rights, on education, foreign policy and the Supreme Court.
Imagine how far ... we could have come, how much we could have achieved if we had just had a Democrat in the White House.
We cannot let this moment slip away. We have come too far and accomplished too much.
And be sternly warned...If the Democrats succeed in extending their majority AND putting Obama in the Oval office they are going to do exactly these things. They are going to destroy us through global warming legislation, Energy policy that punishes big oil and big business, and a Government-run health care system.
They will further destroy Education, they will embark on a Foreign policy based in submissiveness, and they'll install the most Liberal/Progressive (read legislate from the bench) Supreme court (and every OTHER Federal court).
AND, they'll make us pay for every pet, feel-good project that comes their way from any gaggle of screamers on a mission.
The time to unite against the Democrats is at hand, or they're gonna win this thing big.
It's awesome to see you again. We have all missed you.
Thanks for the kind words, but I am DAMN glad to "see ya"!
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
As much as people want to feel that their vote matters (disclaimer: I voted for Perot), this is not the year to neglect to make a stand against a potential presidential disaster in the person of Barack Obama.
Maybe I'm deluding myself, but I just do not see it as a lesser of two evils. It's more like a choice between the all-bad and the good-to-better.
Obama = all bad.
McCain = good to better.
I never was enthused about either Bush. With McCain, I can make a case. Dependent upon his choice of running mate and who he surrounds himself with as president, he will complete his presidency with, or without, a conservative constituency.
I've always felt McCain could be a good president, though he was my 3rd choice in the primaries. How he constructs his circle of advisors and cabinet, etc. will tell the tale. We can and should eye his campaign as an indicator of either strenth or weakness in this area.
On a side note, here is a story I saw where a McCain campaign advisor refutes the 3rd Bush term meme:
H/T Sean Hackbarth:
http://www.theamericanmind.com/2008/06/07/mccain-advisor-criticizes-bush...
The free exchange of ideas inevitably yields both heat and light.
damage would the Dems like to do to education that they haven't already done? The mind reels at making public education any worse than it already is. As to foreign policy, folks like Osama bin Laden are all in for another Dem administration. You might say that it is what made his career the stellar success it is/was before President Bush rained on his parade.
The Republican leadership should have thought of this when they gave us McCain. The leadership basically said, "Conservative values have gotten us a bad reputation as a party so we must denounce these ideas so we can 'move forward.'" This was a plan for victory developed by the bipartisan appeasers and now they should have the courage to carry it through. As a conservative I am not bipartisan and I am not an appeaser. I will fight Obama and his communist buds in every way I can and I was "ready on Day 1" as they say. The McCain wing of the party should proceed according to the dictates of Conscience.
We don't have super-delegates. The only people who had a voice in the nominee were the voters. I wasn't excited about the choice that got finalized, but don't try to blame it on party big wigs.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent
by letting the media convince us that McCain was the only person that could beat Hillary. Well guess what! Hillary isn't their candidate. And now we're stuck with McCain and he's running against someone far more dangerous than Hillary ever was.
Jindal in 2012!
In a year when the Republican brand is in the crapper, only John McCain has a chance to win Independents and conservative Dems in November. All of the other GOP candidates would have been toast in November against either Clinton or Obama.
I think we need to adopt Clinton's approach to politics but not, of course, her policies. For those who are thinking of sitting out this November, don't consider whether McCain is "conservative enough", rather consider whether he is a better choice than Obama.
because that would be selfish on my part. But it is frustrating to me because in late 1991 and early 1992, GHWB was thought to be unbeatable and none of the "top-tier" democrats would run yet they still end up with Bill Clinton. In 2008 the roles are reversed and we get stuck with McCain.
Jindal in 2012!
I like your point about getting real serious real fast.
We did watch Hillary's speech yesterday ... I was kind of hoping to see her wail "I'm Melting ..." But no such luck ...
I'll feel more comfortable when we get that definition of "suspended" ... and I'm not sure Bill Clinton ever quite defined the meaning of the word "is" ...
Good insight, Haystack -- thanks for posting.