I used to think that if Hillary Clinton should lose the nomination (and for all our sakes I hope that she does) then she and her followers should break off and form their own party. They could call themeselves Splintercrats, Clintoncrats or maybe the Bite Backs. All that anger, all that energy, all that EGO is going to need a creative outlet. My message to the Clintons and the Clinton supporters was if you can not truly get behind the person who is likely to be one of this nation's most incredible Presidents then build a new party and take Gollum, I mean, James Carville with you. Seriously.
However, now I am beginning to wonder more what to do if she and Bill steal the nomination. What a grave error that would be. Do I take my own advice and say Obama supporters should form our own party? Goddamn right. If the DNC doesn't feel the financial muscle and voter power generated by Obama's grassroots backbone is worth co-opting than we should walk and sure as hell contest the results. The one thing I have say about this primary season is that it has me fired up like I have never experienced. This is a hell of a lot better than television (which I don't own anyway) and it's the nearest thing to a three party race that I've ever seen.
Obama is head and shoulders above his opponents and his style of politics is what sets him apart from his rivals. He may not be sweeping the nation off its feet the way he was before Hillary got her teeth into him but he has clearly arrived on the scene with such a strong sense of purpose that it's obvious Barack Obama has a mission to fulfill. If it is not as the President to bring us out of Iraq, the President to redefine our nation's politics or to be America's first black President then he is bound to make his mark by another means. Two families, the Bushes and the Clintons, have run this country for almost twenty years. Now these ego maniacs want to extend their reign? What nonsense. It's time we stopped being strangled by the Bush and Clinton oligarchy. That's one of the changes I'm looking forward to.