Hillary Clinton--What makes me think the way I do about HRC

[libdem4life]

50. Love Ms. Grimes...she'll give him a run for his money. He's also getting a challenger

from his right flank...one of those Shutdown Stupids, I think I heard. Split the R vote and voila, a brand new shiny Democratic Senator where once dwelt the aging Turtle. Hopefully.

We must keep calm but firm on Hillary...she's not my first choice by any means. But there's a lot of HDS around. (See ODS) Personally, I think one is sexist and the other is racist. Democrats, however, break political ceilings. Obama's race did not get him elected any more than Hilary's gender will, but oh the flack in the meantime.

So a pouting, stay-home, I won't vote, Hillary-hater can take pride when we have 20 years of Bushes in the WH, the ACA has been rendered impotent, SS and Medicare are tampered with or gutted to funnel more money upwards, women's rights at best, stall, the Senate goes Red, the House is long gone and the Court is stacked with a couple of extra ultra-conservatives for decades to come. Yeah, I didn't vote for Hillary!

National politics is now a Billion Dollar Baby...disgusting, but factual. Corporations and large funders...same thing pretty much...are a fact of political life. Pretending/fantasizing that a bunch of $10 donations can fund the billion dollars necessary to get a candidate to the White House...true for either side including the Tantrum Party...my version of the radicals...Not.

It will be as it has been in recent decades...two somewhat centrists who lean a bit right or left. That's what gets the Independent vote...and truth is, these folk (along with the corporate donors) who are not ideologues from either side, pretty much determine the results. Third Parties split the vote and cause loss, for the most part.

To the "it's too early" folk...wrong again. It takes 3 years to put together a national political run these days...see paragraph above. Just the cost to be an actual player at the Primary has become staggering. Republicans are already setting up in Iowa, I hear.

The Perfect Candidate is an illusion. Democracy/at this scale is far from pure, and reality is often inconvenient. We have to work for 2014 to bring in more of our team down ticket and which also provides for cameos and coattails and positioning by forerunners for President.

Then on to 2016!