Spoiling attempt sees Republicans again back Clinton
Analysis of yesterday’s open primary in Mississippi reveals that much of the meager support Hillary Clinton received came from registered Republicans. Indeed Republicans were Hillary Clinton’s strongest supporters, with 80% voting for her in the Democratic primary.
That there is an organised campaign by some Republicans to skew Democratic Party open primaries became apparent after the Texas contest, noted by us at the time, where there is even the suggestion that ‘Block Barack Republicans’ pushed Clinton to victory in terms of the popular vote in Texas. The issue has now also been noted by The Telegraph.
Unlike earlier primaries which saw Republicans backing Barack Obama in positive support, it’s inconceivable that hate-figure Hillary’s is anything other than a spoiling tactic designed to prolong the race by denying Obama a knock-out victory, and in the hope that it eases a passage for Clinton to be McCain’s eventual opponent in the General Election. Republicans are convinced that Clinton would be considerably easier to beat than Obama in November.
Whilst Republican votes might have been successful in Texas, the dual process of an additional caucus there ensured that Obama still emerged as the overall delegate winner. Yesterday’s vote in Mississippi was so overwhelmingly in favour of Obama that, even with large numbers of Republicans voting for Hillary Clinton, victory was also assured.
There are now six weeks of campaigning in Pennsylvania before the primary on the 22nd of April. It is a closed primary in which registered Republicans will be unable to repeat their antics.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Sorry, my lesser self got momentary control here. I just couldn’t help myself:
When Slippery Willy got caught double dipping nothing changed for him. The Clinton duo also slithered out from under investigations of the Whitewater financial shenanigans, even as the feds were selectively picking off their luckless co-conspirators. William Clinton lost neither his high appointment, nor did his career or his status, such as it was, seem to suffer in consequence. Neither has it precluded his elevation as Hillary’s voice in absentia on the 2008 presidential primary campaign trail.
The eerie acceptance of Clinton wrongdoing may have led them to suppose their constituents and potential constituents weren’t alert enough to notice such moral digressions, or have woefully short memories, or are just too brainless to comprehend the magnitude of the wrongdoing.
In that former case even a knee-trembling grand jury subpoena failed to prise out the Madison Guaranty files from the fearless Clintons and deliver said documents into the hands of the law. But, after having been barefacedly declared ‘lost’, the papers mysteriously, perhaps inadvertently, surfaced, in of all places, the Clinton’s private suite in the White House. The smooth pair somehow extricated themselves from even that potential nuclear event.
The Republican inspired impeachment proceedings against Clinton ultimately failed. It was not for want of evidence, but because the Democratic party was just too strong. The aftermath was that the Democratic Party suffered severely for both its leader’s failings, and for its own failure to respond to the will of the people.
This latest accidental exposure of high office sexual misconduct and financial chicanery in the case of the Democrat Governor of New York, is only the latest dip on the downward slide of morality in high office, and a further betrayal of the people. At least this pathetic miscreant had the decency to not try to lie his way out of it, and to resign the governorship – although, unlike Clinton, he probably recognised from the very start the evidence against him was unequivocal.
Despite her own history, the oft-demonstrated unmitigated gall of Hillary Clinton will probably encourage her to screech her own outrage at this further depressing breach of trust in positions of high office.
Obama is right, the cleanup of politics is long, long overdue. Pray God give us a President we can admire and be proud of.