Is this true Douglas?
Morning Joe, the Daily Stalker Caller, and the Daily Mail are reporting that you are planning to vote Mitt Romney. Why?
For Clinton, the politics are more complicated. His associates take it as a given that he would like nothing more than to see his wife become President. Hillary Clinton will step down as Secretary of State after the campaign and begin the process of deciding whether she will run in 2016. By some measures, a defeat for Obama in November would leave Hillary the undisputed leader of her party and propel her toward the Oval Office that much faster. At least one of Clinton’s closest advisers seems to be backing that strategy. According to two people with direct knowledge, Douglas Band has said that he will vote for Romney. Band declined to comment.
-The New Yorker
Really?
Never mind that by the time we get to 2016, with a Mitt Romney presidency, the house of women's reproductive rights, Social Security, Medicare, equality for gays, may have already burned down to the ground. Nothing left but ash by then.
Everything that Hillary stands for may be put so totally out of reach that by 2016 it will require 24/7 heavy lifting, and a super majority in both houses to get it and everything else we still haven't gotten back into place since 8 year long Bush frat party tore out.
You're really going to do that? If not, your "no comment" doesn't add drama it only gives the Republican party cover. And they will use it, you, because of who you are to Bill Clinton, will be their new buttposter boy.
The wolves aren't even at the gates any more, they are at the front door, howling to get in. And you are busy weakening that door.
Hell, they get into office and we will have voter suppression on steroids PLUS supreme court picks, and Romney will swing the court so far right that Roe v. Wade will be something my grandchildren will read about in their history books - that is if revisionist history will even allow it to be in history books. Look how the story of unions has been "edited" out.
There may not be enough un suppressed Democratic voters to give Hillary a win in 2016. And those who think in this direction can no longer dismiss this as hyperbolic ranting nonsense and have any credibility at the end of the day. We've had two years that show how true this is.
It will not stop, if young gun, tea party, Ayn Rand loving Lyin' Ryan is the VP and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If (and that currently is a big "if") Hillary does decide to run in 2016 she will either face Romney (who may go AWOL in the last 2 years of his presidency, just like he did when he was governor of Massachusetts) or Paul Ryan on the other side.
Do you think, given all that has happened in the past 2 years, that they will not work to so totally tip/warp the scales so much in their favor, that it would take Divine Intervention to get a Democrat, (much less a Democrat with whom they'd collected years upon years of opposition research on) elected?
The Republicans are no longer a reasonable party. You are putting your hopes for a 2016 Hillary win in the plastic bag that is Mitt Romney and setting it off into the wind. Romney is someone who you can only trust to make things better for himself and his CEO/Millionaire friends and the worse for the rest of us, which includes making sure Democrats can't win in 2016 and beyond.
This may be a game of better positioning to you (and I am a game player, I understand this) BUT this is NOT a game. This is/are the lives of women and our reproductive health. This is the lives of children who can, even with serious illnesses, get health insurance. This is the lives of the elderly who will be voucherized. This is the lives of the disabled who will lose medicaid and be given fees for the "privilege" of being disabled.
LITERALLY.
This may look like a a "great" future that would help guarantee a win for Hillary, but in that four years PEOPLE WILL DIE.
Don't think that in 4 years the Republicans won't remind you and Hillary of your Ben Tre political moves right now. All they will need to do is find some who is angry that their loved one died in that past for years. And with Romney in the white house, there will be plenty.
If you really think that you need to burn down the house to save it, take a good long look. Because what you may be burning down is any chance Hillary or any other Democrat has to win a presidential election in the future.
I don't think "I'm sorry, I got it wrong" will cover it.