The Rising Tide of Populism in the Dem Party Spells Trouble for Hillary

[MADem]

305. Listen to you--so very hard at work with your nasty little label maker!

All I am is a pragmatist, but you go on with your bad self. I know you need to fling that personal insult stuff to try to tear me down/build yourself up. It's a poor substitute for discussion of the issues, but that's on YOU.

The election is not "already called." She IS the best prepared candidate, make no mistake. There's nothing cute or charming about a steep learning curve--it fucks the country over. She is the presumptive nominee because Democrats, by and large, recognize that. We're not going to dicker over whether we want to frame that scribble by Pookie the Elephant or those finger paint hand prints by some three year old when we have a Rembrandt waiting to be placed in a frame and displayed to the world.

There will be NO learning curve with HRC, but she will have to get past Christie or some other Pablum Republican, maybe with a crazed VP. They will attack. This has to be planned for, expected, and countered.

She's been training for this gig since she graduated from Wellesley. It's not like she's a vanity candidate--every single thing she has done has been a tutorial for the Presidency. She's the best we've got, and say what you want about that Hard Dog to Keep on the Porch she's married to, he's an ASSET. He can serve as an envoy, he can negotiate deals sotto voce while affecting a social demeanor, and he will extend her range like no other spouse since Eleanor Roosevelt.

But here's what you just don't 'get:' If HRC wins, no one loses. If Christie or some other GOP nut wins, we ALL lose. And we lose the Supreme Court, so there will be no need to create fake "DU-style" oppositional arguments about "safe, legal and rare," because if the GOP gets their way, that theme will be "coat-hanger dangerous, illegal, and commonplace." The wingnuts will find every way they can to enslave women through the punishment of forced pregnancy by cutting off access to birth control, making it next to impossible to get, to keep those uppity women in line and in their place.

Then we'll all really have something to cry about. And good luck turning that around if they get their way on that score. Go directly to reproductive jail, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, and stay trapped in a life not of your making, ladies, because the Supremes have spoken.