Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Hillary Just As Tough As Any Male Candidate (unless she's behind in the poles.)


You’ve got to be kidding me.
Mrs. Bill Clinton beats B. Hussein Obama by a few points in New Hampshire, so what? A complete political novice gets beaten by (pardon the expression) an old hat in the politics game, by a fairly slim margin, and the pundits and talking heads are falling all over themselves to call her “the comback kid”. They try to make it sound as though Clinton had thrown in the towel after Iowa and (shockingly) she’s now back in the race.
If Ron Paul had won New Hampshire (or indeed placed at all), THAT would be shocking. This isn’t that big of a deal. And if you think it is, you either…
1) haven’t been paying attention to Clinton’s war machine or
2) you suffer from a severe lack of imagination.

The big news isn’t that Mrs. Bill Clinton won. It’s really
how she won. Listening to all the mental musings of the confused pundits, one thing started to show itself. They all seem to think she won because she got emotional. Poll after poll flashed across the screen tonight. Women came out for Clinton. Independents made up their minds this week. And the thought is that the independents and women came out for Clinton, because of her little “I’m so emotional about all this” moment in the New Hampshire diner this week.

I can just see the future Clinton presidency…
Mrs. Bill Clinton sits in the Oval Office. She looks morosely at the camera as she says, “I have tried so hard to get Iran to not nuke Israel, but I (sniff) just (sniff, sniff) can’t make him see reason.” She wipes some tears from her eyes, and bam! World War Three will be averted.

There are moments when I can hold my head high and say proudly “I am a conservative.” The contrast between myself and the New Hampshire Democrat voting block has just created one of those moments. Conservatives (true conservatives, not RINO’s like McCain) have the auspicious distinction of actually voting for substance. We use our sets of guiding principles accompanied by our pursuit of truth to make our decisions. Which is part of the reason true conservatives are in such a quandary when it comes to our political choices this election season. We don’t let thoughts like “Wow, she’s so emotionally invested.” dictate our course of action in the voting booth. We look at things like voting records, suggested legislation and proposed courses of action to determine our candidate of choice, all things that seem to be somewhat unfamiliar terrain for certain members of the voting populace.

This is the woman who wants to lead the free world? This is the woman that the women and independents of New Hampshire want to lead them? She almost cries and gets a boost in the polls? If you listening to the talking heads, the coronation is back on, because she got emotional. Her feelings got hurt, because she was losing, the people of New Hampshire saw this and said to themselves, “Oh, she almost cried. She’d make a great president!”

You’ve got to be kidding me.

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