Why I Support Hillary Clinton (show me where I am wrong)

[ellennelle]

60. isn't "the last decade" a bit of a slim window?

i mean, there is only one dem prez candidate in the past decade, right?

but, i'll give you these in my lifetime. carter, dukakis, mondale, mcgovern. and obama.

now, i'll grant you obama raised a ton of money. but he was not 'up to his eyeballs' because it was all new money to him. and most of it was small donations. remember that part? that was his campaign coup.

republicans have always been awash in money because they have been since the late 19th century the party of money. the reason i did not list clinton or gore or even kerry is because they were all part of the DLC movement, whose raison d'être was "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." they recognized during the reagan years - when it was real clear investing in TV ads was the most important part of a campaign, and you need money to do that - that the dems faced a future of losing unless they brought big money on board. i call it 'the worst compromise', as opposed to the 'great' one (which was also horrible, but that's another matter).

clinton was in on that business from the beginning, and so was the core of the party. much as i admire gore and kerry, they bought into it too. (hell, kerry married it!)

of course, the role of money in politics in general is now legion, thx to the W's court appointees, alito and roberts. (W, of course, himself became prez courtesy of reagan's appointee, rehnquist, a notorious racist anti-Semitic.)

these historical facts should give us pause; i doubt anyone here would disagree with the sentiment behind your question, but it seems to me the reaction should NOT be to shrug and accept that everyone just does this money-whoring. we should instead keep pointing it out, and with the outrage it deserves.

moreover, seems to me we should therefore take the stance that anyone who is steeped in money - up to their eyeballs, as you say - should be regarded as highly suspect and dogged for it. hillary's just been in it too long for me to trust her on that count.