Democrats: You had eight years to recruit a roster of capable and presentable persons with good records from which your voters could make a choice of the candidate to be nominated for the office of President of the United States and presented to the general electorate next fall. What you came up with was five has-beens, absolutely the weakest line-up I have seen in decades. Former Sen. Webb was mildly amusing, at pains to establish that HIS émigré wife is a hard-working professional woman. Sen. Sanders appeared to be an old guy with some good ideas; one wished he were about a decade younger. O’Malley had clearly been brought on to persuade Catholics to vote for Democrats. Good luck with that one.
It would appear that, barring some unexpected circumstance, such as an indictment, you have all but made your choice. Many independents like me did vote for President Obama and do still respect him. Speaking for myself, that respect does not transfer over to his first term Secretary of State. I may indeed be the only independent voter, or one of a very small subsection, who feels that way. You Democrats had better hope so. I can’t help but wonder, is anyone on your side counting electoral votes? It is a mystery to me, just what is the basis for assuming that your present front runner is capable of carrying the same states that candidate Obama carried?
Speaking as a white person, I have known people like the Clintons all my life. There is nothing unique or special about them. Bill Clinton, an overgrown adolescent who wasted his considerable natural gifts on the pursuit of pleasure , power, and self indulgence, had a certain raffish charm in his day, and, like Richard Nixon, a much more interesting figure IMHO, was sometimes able to do good things for the wrong reasons. His wife is your basic main street clubwoman. I must have met a hundred or so over my own lifetime. They are all relentless, ruthless and obsessive in the cause of their own privileges and social position, and, not infrequently, bloodthirsty as well, as is Mrs. Clinton. They tend to be charming in person, and invariably surround themselves with a protective ring of girlfriend acolytes. Such women are usually Republicans, which must be why Democrats don’t appear to understand what they are dealing with.
George W. Bush might be a man of limited intellect, a dummy, but he yet managed to cause great harm. Mrs. Clinton’s four year term as Secretary of State was distinguished by the invasion and destabilization of no fewer than six small foreign countries. The citizens of those countries have been turned over to the tender mercies of terrorists, criminal gangs and small time fascists. It is intolerable that Mrs. Clinton might be put in charge of the overwhelming power of the US military. You Democrats, in your zeal to elect “the first woman president” may be able to overlook this woman’s propensity to call out the army on the slightest, or no, provocation, but what reception do you imagine she will receive from the rest of the world? From what I can gather, the leaders of both Russia and China are in no mood to endure even more American insolence. This is a woman who loves travel, parties and fancy events; she revels in luxury and personal expense of all kinds. Has anyone considered how this must look to a suffering population, both at home and abroad?
Democrats: we have seen this movie before, many times. The theme is always the same—ritual expressions of outrage at various real or imagined affronts, followed by kissing up to the rich person in hopes of patronage. The history of the New Left after 1970 provides just one notorious example. This time, Democrats, you have truly gone too far. Your presumptive nominee is a catastrophe, not to mention an indictment, waiting to happen, and you, yourselves, are revealing your selves as unfit to make decisions on behalf of the rest of us.
Democrats: I urge you to please save your souls and step back from this abyss while you still can. If you don’t like Sen. Sanders, do what you should have done all along, and find and bring forward some reasonable, capable individual who is not under investigation by the FBI, and does not have Mrs. Clinton’s baggage. O’Malley, Klobuchar, Bill Richardson, Cuomo, Booker, Sherrod Brown. You need to give citizens someone to be FOR; this time around, fear of the scary Republicans is not going to win you the election when your own candidate is equally if not more frightening.
A final thought. I am not one of the young people who are pouring their hearts and souls into support of Sen. Sanders, and even I do not appreciate seeing an honest, well-meaning public servant, an old man who has lived a useful life, being disrespected. While I take no pleasure in contemplating the impending demise of our oldest political party, you Democrats will have no one but yourselves to blame if or rather, when, that comes about. The very impressive young people who are now supporting Sen Sanders are among the future leadership of our country, which leaders will not owe a durn thing to the lot of you.
