ViceZilla’s Views

Hillary wants, no scratch that, needs to be President of the United States. She’s behaving like she needs to be President like a junkie needs a fix. It’s as if there isn’t anything she won’t say, do, or sell in her quest to get the fix. Her chances are pretty slim to nil of getting the nomination nod this time around, mostly because of her negativity during the campaign, plus she plain and simply doesn’t have the votes. But, a run in 2012 is starting to look like her plan.

She’s behind in votes, popular, pledged, and superdelegate numbers just aren’t backing up her claims of still being able to win this thing. Plus, her campaign is nearly $20 million in debt. It’s over for her, but yet she vows to continue on to the Democratic convention, kicking and screaming all the way there. The only possible reason for her to stay in the race, rather than drop out graciously and get on the Democratic Party’s page, is simply to hurt Obama’s chances in the general election. What other reason could there be?

If Obama loses to McCain, which Hillary is predicting, then she would be a shoe in for the nomination in 2012. And in 2012, McCain will have proven that his term was just another failed Bush term, thus again making her a shoe in for the Presidential win.

This of course is all hypothetical, but I’m trying to dumb it down to get to Hillary’s level as to why she is continuing her “me me me” diatribe.

She has now sunk to a new low in her campaign efforts to get the delegations from Florida and Michigan seated. As reported by the Politico:

Hillary Clinton compared her effort to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to epic American struggles, including those to free the slaves and win the right to vote for blacks and women.

She then compares the Florida fiasco of 2000 with her not winning the Nomination:

“In Florida, you learned the hard way what happens when your votes aren’t counted and the candidate with fewer votes is declared the winner. The lesson of 2000 here in Florida is crystal clear: if any votes aren’t count, the will of the people isn’t realized and our democracy is diminished.”

Her last quote sums it all up. After the dust has settled, even if/when the Florida and Michigan delegates are seated, she still won’t have gotten the Democratic nomination, but we’ll get to listen to her whine and moan about how it was ’stolen’ from her for the next few years!

What I find the most hypocritical is that she is almost daring the DNC to not count the Florida and Michigan votes, because if they aren’t, come November Florida and Michigan will vote for McCain.

“We know the road to a Democratic White House runs right through Florida and Michigan. If we care about winning those states in November, we need to count your votes now. If Democrats send a message that we don’t fully value your votes, we know Sen. McCain and the Republicans will be more than happy to have them.”

It seems all to obvious that Hillary will only fight for the Florida and Michigan votes, if it benefits her and only her. Where was she when the DNC disqualified those votes because they broke party rules by moving their primaries dates? She was lining up to agree that the votes won’t be counted, as per punishment by the party’s rules committee, that’s where.

She needs to realize that she is not the be-all and end-all of the Democratic party. If anything she is hampering the party’s efforts to win the White House in November by spewing selfish rhetoric like this out. Maybe she should drop out of the Democratic race now, and start her own independent party. She could call it the Hillary party, and then she could have all the votes she could get from her beloved “I am Hillary, hear me roar” campaign!

Tags: 2008 Presidential Candidates //