For months now I’ve been convinced that
Hillary Clinton will be entering the fray that is the Democratic Party primary
season. The affair to date has been a nothing short of high comedy.
Recent events have me more convinced than
ever that she will be returning, like some zombie whose head we forgot to cut
off, to haunt voters one more time this fall.
After the beginning of an
obvious (and planned) PR campaign last week with the release of a
big campaign ad documentary on Netflix and a big splash in the
Hollywood Reporter Hillary finally stopped being coy. And she announced this
week that she now ‘has the urge’ to run again
against Donald Trump.
Save
us, please, from Hillary’s urges…. Shudder.
And
she did so making sure that everyone knew what she thought of the real
front-runner for the nomination, Bernie Sanders.
As various anointed ones have
dropped out of the race – Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Robert O’Rourke – others
have faltered despite huge ad spends while the media and pollsters do their
level best to convince us all that Joe Biden’s a serious candidate to take on
Donald Trump this fall.
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In
fact, the only reason Biden is still in the race is to make the impeachment
theater going on right now seem relevant and cogent. But, like Biden himself,
it is neither.
Then
again neither is Hillary, but never underestimate this woman’s narcissistic solipsism.
If
you look back on the race to date it’s clear that most of the people running
are there to try and distract voters away from the two candidates that resonate
most with voters, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
Yes,
Gabbard is polling low but if you look at poll numbers versus money spent
and/or raised to this point, she’s clearly got cache and the ability to build a
real following. And as the field shrinks those distractions become irrelevant.
Her poll numbers are rising the more the field winnows.
Neither of them is acceptable in any
way to the DNC. They are outsiders within their party. I’m no fan of Bernie
Sanders. In fact, I think he’s a terrible candidate — because, you know,
commie! — but that’s not the point of this article.
Bernie is surging in the early states
and panic is setting in with the DNC. And they must have a plan to stop him
from running away with the nomination otherwise we could have two outsiders
headlining this fall’s reality show.
And that plan starts with the
impeachment and potential removal of Donald Trump.
The
impeachment is a distraction for Trump but it is a real problem for the
Senators running for the Democratic nomination. They have to spend all day
listening to Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler lie while they could be out
campaigning and raising money.
This
hurts Bernie the most because Bernie is the one who will get zero help from the
DNC’s big donors. None of them are behind him and with good reason. He’s
hostile to most of them (and most of us as well, but that’s a different
article).
Of
the people running for President as Democrats the only person less acceptable
to Wall St. than Elizabeth Warren is Bernie Sanders. Warren’s entire campaign
has been designed to push Bernie farther left by out-lefting him at every turn.
Bernie says 70% top marginal tax rate, Warren says 77%. Bernie wants debt
restructuring? Warren says forgive all student loan debt.
Her
job is to make Bernie as unacceptable to mainstream U.S. voters as possible.
Unfortunately, that makes Bernie more and more acceptable to a lot of people
voting in the Democratic primaries. And this Catch-22 is beginning to show up
in the polls for Iowa and New Hampshire.
Then
there’s the serious money behind Pete Buttigieg trying to create slightly gayer
version of Barack Obama. Again, he’s just another distraction to suck support
away from Sanders and keep the field relatively close and the odds of an
uncommitted primary season high.
Because
the goal is to get to a brokered convention this summer. So, the impeachment
was slowed down to hurt Sanders, Warren and Amy Klobuchar and help give Biden
the bump he needs to get some momentum coming into Iowa.
It’s
not working.
But I
also don’t think it’s going to matter. If you keep watching the headlines the
attack dogs are out in full to discredit and hurt Sanders. They know he’s a
real force to be reckoned with. And worse, his attack dog, Gabbard, has been
muzzled by keeping her off the debate stage so she can’t take anyone else out,
like she roasted that pig Kamala Harris last summer.
But I
truly feel the DNC is looking to steal the nomination again from Sanders. And
the impeachment of Trump continues to somehow, against all odds, get worse for
him, even though his party is supposed to be in charge of the proceedings.
I told everyone back in September when
Nancy Pelosi announced she was going through with the impeachment process that
this was all about getting rid of Trump. But it was in October when Hillary
went after Tulsi Gabbard that Gabbard’s response was beyond epic and I
wrote about it then.
Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers,
embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the
Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.
From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a …
…
concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and
why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and …
…
powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I
pose.
It’s now clear that this
primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join
the race directly.
Gabbard
throws down the gauntlet here outing Hillary as the mastermind behind the DNC
strategy of allowing the current crop of future losers to fall all over
themselves to alienate as many centrist voters as possible.
This
paves the way for Hillary to swoop in on her broom, pointed hat in hand, and
declare herself the savior of the Democratic Party’s chances to defeat Donald
Trump next November.
So,
Hillary’s running, the DNC is trying to stop Bernie and Tulsi Gabbard is still
an also-ran in New Hampshire and Iowa, polling between 5% and 7%. So what?
Well,
I feel at this point it’s been game-planned by Gabbard and Sanders that they
know what’s coming. I felt the endorsement from Joe Rogan of Sanders was timed
to distract from Hillary’s attack on Bernie in that Hollywood Reporter piece.
Rogan
is far more influential than the dead tree media Hillary’s publicist works
with. And her attack dogs were out in full to attack Rogan and smear Sanders
with their typical guilt-by-association nonsense.
I
don’t tweet much folks, but this one gets to the truth of what’s going on in
the murk and slime of Democratic Party politics.
If
you ever wanted proof that hyper-sensitive identity politics was nothing more
than a cheap political tool of the worst kind. I give you Joe Rogan is a Nazi.
Wake
up, get unwoke … profithttps://t.co/la7bgSKS7f
— Tom
Luongo (@TFL1728) January 24, 2020
Sanders
and Gabbard know the DNC is out to destroy him. And the question then becomes
what’s next?
What
do they do to combat this? Gabbard is not running for re-election in Hawaii.
She says she’s committed to running for President. I don’t think she’s getting
the nomination and, frankly, I don’t think she is either.
She just filed a defamation
of character lawsuit against Hillary for the smears Hillary threw around I
linked to above. She puts financial pressure on Hillary knowing that the
Clintons couldn’t drum up support and dollars last year during their expensive
speaking tour no one went to.
Gabbard
denies any kind of third party run, getting the Ron Paul treatment from the
media. But, she’s a very acceptable person to a lot of disaffected Trump voters
like myself. She speaks to them and can help carry Bernie as his running mate
if he somehow makes it through the convention to be the Democratic nominee.
So,
yes, Gabbard isn’t running for re-election because she’s running as Sanders’
Vice-Presidential candidate.
And
it may not be for the Democratic party in the end. That’s the part you have to
factor in here.
Game-planning
this out, these two are running a real insurgency within the DNC to either get
the nomination or split off and run as Independents. This is Bernie’s last kick
at the can. He’s already gotten the gold watch from the DNC in 2016, living the
high life only a high member of the Politburo can.
Gabbard
has burned all the bridges within the DNC she can, almost gleefully. That makes
her a person of integrity, of authenticity, in a U.S. political wasteland of
charlatans, reality show hucksters and outright thieves.
The
quicker she climbs out of the basement in Pelosi’s House, the better off she’ll
be.
I don’t put it past either of these
people to think that preventing Hillary from regaining control of the Democrats
and spoiling her return is the best outcome for America, even if it re-elects
Donald Trump.
But, if Trump is removed to make way
for Hillary, then the Race to 270 electoral votes becomes a non-binary affair.
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