With her IWR vote, Sen. Clinton will encounter only the same problem Kerry did. Plus, Miagi wisdom.

[Guaranteed]

You want to see 2004 all over again? Support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Her greatest vulnerability is, oddly enough, exactly the same as Kerry's. She voted for the IWR, and has not adequately atoned for it. Such issues are those on which voters demand great clarity- they will not put up with wishy-washiness when the Republicans take up the "flip-flopper" meme once again and start pounding the airwaves with the fact that while Clinton now is (apparently- is she? who knows) "against" the Iraq War, she "voted for it." And inevitably some reporter will put a question to her, or many reporters will, regarding that vote. Would she have voted the same way if she knew then what she knows now? Yes? Then why are you supposedly "against" the occupation today? Or- are you? If you supported the war then, why not finish it out? Or- will you?

The lack of clarity will become apparent.


This is the vast political difference between other candidates who made the same mistake Sen. Clinton did, and Sen. Clinton. Other candidates, such as Edwards, have totally disowned their vote. And that will work, ultimately- just as so many voters themselves have disowned their previous support of the Iraq War. But Sen. Clinton, in her "pride" (and perpetual political ignorance) is walking right into the same trap that Kerry did. Just like Edwards and Dodd said at the debate before last, some learned the hard way (including Kerry)- but some just didn't learn at all.

It's like Mr. Miagi said in the Karate Kid:

"Daniel-san, must talk. Man walk on road. Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk down middle, sooner or later, get squished- just like grape. Same here. You karate do 'yes,' or karate do 'no.' You karate do 'guess so,' just like grape. Understand?"

John Kerry did karate do "guess so," and got squashed like grape.

Let's not do that again.