Don’t Let The Clintons Back Into the Democratic Party

It’s the Presidential Campaign, 2000. Gore is in a teeter-totter struggle with Bush to get a win. Several states hang in the balance, Arkansas among them. What a great opportunity for the most-recently beloved President, who just happened to be from Arkansas, to go in there and barnstorm for the Democratic Presidential candidate and make sure Arkansas came in as a blue state.
Did that happen? No. Bill Clinton sat on the sidelines, Arkansas went for Bush.
But wait!  you say. Bill stayed away from national campaigning because the Democratic Party said they didn’t want him to participate. Okaaaaaay....
Eight years later, Hillary Clinton is waging a scorched-earth policy against Barack Obama so she can claim the Democratic nomination for President, a battle she has no real chance of winning but which is escalating tempers and vitriol inside the party, causing real disunity. But wait! you say. Hillary would stop doing that and end the campaign if the Democratic Party leaders asked her to, just like with Bill.
If you believe that, I’ve got some subprime mortgages I can sell you.

For eight years, in a strange unplanned parallelism, the goals and ideals of the Clinton dynasty and the Democratic Party sort of kinda were the same things. Actually the only thing they both wanted was to win. So the Democrats got the Presidency (lost the Congress however), two Presidencies in a row, and a nice happy economy – and the Clintons got to win, period. (we’ll gloss over NAFTA and health care)
Then came the lucky break: Bill secretly had no intention of helping Gore take his old job, and – what luck! the DNC figured that having Bill out there would remind too many people of his sex problems, so hot damn! Gore lost, Hillary became a senator, Bush was a complete disaster, Hillary didn’t run against Bush in ’04 (why not? Didn’t she have her network of supporters and favors owed complete yet?) and a stumbling bumbling man lost to Bush, setting up the "takes a woman to clean up a man’s mess" and "Bring back the Clinton Prosperity" run through to November ’08 – "AND WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS???? BARACK WHO??"
It’s time that people realize that the Clintons and their rabid supporters (Carr, the clintonistas at the  RBC meeting, etc) have as many core Democratic Party values  as the Bush-Chaney gang have core Republican values. We’ve seen what the Republicans – a lot of good-meaning people – got for handing over their party and the nation to a bunch of neocons. Does the Democratic Party want the same fate to befall them by giving power to a bunch of neolibs? Let’s not be fooled again, people. And WE the PEOPLE of the Democratic Party should insist that the Clintons and their win-at-all-costs fanatic cadre should be expelled from the party for gross moral malfeasance. The DNC can do this at the top, we can each do it in our precincts, meeting halls, party gatherings at every level. If not, the continued festering of these malcontents  will only damage or cripple our party’s attempts to save this country.
I’m not talking about a wholesale purge of everybody who ever wore a "Clinton" button. Good, sensible people signed up for the Clinton cause along the way, but they had no inkling it would be a march into Gotterdammerung. A lot of them have already conceded it was a good fight but she lost and accept Obama , or have been turned off by the dirty tricks and truth-twisting of the Clintonistas. They are the ones who  will actively promote the re-joining of the party behind Obama.  It will easy to tell the Clintonites from the Clintonistas.
But let’s get rid of the Clintons and Lanny Davis and Carr and Ickes and Penn and the whole rotten crew – have Soros and others pay the Clintons a hefty sum to go start their own party, and take all their insane storm troopers with them. (because I believe the Republicans would be afraid to admit them). It would give Joe Lieberman a party to belong to again (he’ll love it). Then they can get together and nominate Hillary or Ralph Nader or Leni Riefenstahl or whoever for their presidental candidate.

This a troll? Snark? Thomas Paine-like diatribe? Naw, just what I feel. Some people are just plain bad, and you gotta say it out loud.