... funny thing happened on the way to the White House

I dare not get my hopes up, but it appears that cracks are showing, if not yet glaring, in the foundation of what has long been billed as the coronation of She who would be Queen.

Don't get me wrong, both Clintons are like the zombies in "Shaun of the Dead"... they simply will not stay down.

Bill is the most meddlesome ex-president in history; he not only ignored the gentlemen's agreement among "exes" to maintain a dignified low profile and avoid comment on ones successors, he ran it through the shredder.

I've had Clinton fatigue since Jan. 21, 1993 and there's no end in sight.... well, maybe some.

Hillary's campaign seems to have made a crucial error in primary politics... running "nationally" and relying on national polls and the ridiculous, televised "debates" instead of pressing the flesh, eating rubber chicken and speaking anywhere 10 or more people are gathered. Instead, she assumed as the early front-runner... she didn't have to actually run.

That... and her campaign didn't see Obama coming.

I think I can smell panic in her just-announced, state-wide blitz in a "Hill-a-copter". That's sillier than her "Hil-raisers" which frequently turn out to be Chinese scam artists headed for prison. This is not the sound of a tight, professional campaign, it's more like she's running for student body president.

Besides, the helicopter thing only really worked once... when LBJ buzzed around the Texas Hill Country in one during his second bid for the U.S. Senate in 1948, impressing farmers and scaring horses.

If the panic grows unabated in the Queen's court, there's every likelihood that she will go even more negative and double up on the remaining skeletons in the Obama closet. This will backfire even worse than than it did in her first attempt when a minion suggested that the younger senator may have sold cocaine. 

If Clinton and Obama had real credentials and presidential stature this would be different; these two have spoken nothing but platitudes so there's nothing of real substance to set them apart from one another.

This throws a spotlight on The Pantsuit's negatives. The number of people who view her negatively has been steadily increasing ever since she announced her candidacy for President in January. It now stands at 52-percent.

She is the most divisive figure in American politics and thus, simply cannot pull votes from a statistical majority of American voters. Dem primary voters are rethinking their votes... in Hillary could they have a candidate who is disliked enough to lose in November?

Speaking of democrat voters.... New Jersey's General Assembly voted 44-36 to abolish the state's death penalty. Democrat Gov. Jon S. Corzine will sign the bill as early as Monday.

The lefties are gleeful of course; they'd rather abort babies than snuff the life out of murderers.

Proponents insist that it is no deterrent... in a way they're right; the death penalty hasn't deterred anyone in Jersey recently because they haven't executed anyone since 1963.

Capital punishment works in Texas... we use it.

Besides, it's an absolute fact that the death penalty is a deterrent; even the leftist The NY Times is forced to admit:

"... According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented.

“I personally am opposed to the death penalty,” said H. Naci Mocan, an economist at Louisiana State University and an author of a study finding that each execution saves five lives. “But my research shows that there is a deterrent effect.”

And as I always say, you don't need a study to understand... use your common sense. I borrowed this from radio talker Dennis Prager who suggests that if every convicted murderer who killed someone on a Wednesday--only Wednesday-- were fast-tracked to a lethal hypo, would the number of murders committed on Wednesday decrease?

Besides, I don't care if it deters or not, a civilized society has a right... the duty and responsibility, to exact retribution on those who have taken a life.

It's the opponents of the death penalty who have blood on their hands... the blood of innocents.   

Comments

[DontAskMe]

I admit mixed feeling about the death penalty, but would like to point out that in has an outstanding record when it comes to eliminating repeat offenders.

[Steve]

Just a couple of thoughts:
Is this just a ploy to test the citizen reaction to a supposed gaff by the H-bitch?
Do you really think that ANY of this schtuff will stick to this teflon-bitch?
I have a gut feeling that Obama is just a red-herring in all of this hoopla. He is there as a "canary"; to gauge the political wind.
The demon-cratic party is a WELL oiled machine. They have had years of "setting up" the American population. Setting them up to be cogs in their plans.
And what do we get from the Re-bufoon-publicans? Kukla, Fran and Ollie. (You may have to expand on that reference for some of the younger generation!) We get to pick from a group of wishy-washy appearing clowns. None of which is really strong enough to stand against the gale force wind that is brewing in the demon-cratic atmosphere!

Steve

[Always On Watch]

A little hat-tip to you at my most recent posting:

http://alwaysonwatch2.blogspot.com/2007/12/if-looks-could-kill.html

[Always On Watch]

Until the past few weeks, I thought that Hillary had the nomination all sewn up.

Even though I haven't been keeping up with all the news lately, I've had the hunch that all not well with the Hitlery campaign.

[MM]

I'm loving this crack up but I really do hope she gets the nomination. Because there is no way she can go from securing the nod to the general without revealing just what a schrew and a socialist she truly is. She'll lose, she has no where the likeability that Bill has. I've been saying for months, she is one YouTube moment away from disaster. Just let it be after she has the nomination

[GM Roper]

Great post. Thanks for the heads up.