Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper - Schleswig Leader, Thursday, August 9, 2007 - Page 3
I know, I know, the election is still 16 months away, caucuses still five months away so maybe it’s too early for this, but I think it may not be too soon to face the inevitable. Uncle Sam may soon become Aunt Samantha.
Mind you, I’m no Hillary supporter. If Iowa moved up the caucus I’d probably support New Mexico Governor Richardson if I were serious or former Alaska Congressman Gravel if I really felt like annoying people.
I know that a lot of things can happen in 16 months, including John Edwards winning Iowa. I know a lot of readers around here aren’t prepared to contemplate any Democrat as our next President. But maybe it will be easier to for us all to get used to the idea of a “Commanderess-in-Chief” if we start on it now so we have a almost year and a half for it to sink in.
I know it’s especially hard for my Republican friends, but come on- will most Republicans really get excited about most of the Republican candidates?
Giuliani has had how many divorces? Pro-Choice? New York City Firefighters oppose him because these heroes of 9/11 say he’s screwed them over?
Fred “Hollywood” Thompson and his half-his-age arm candy wife only raised half as much money as he hoped to in the first month of his non campaign.
John “Anger Management” McCain has pretty much lost his entire campaign staff.
And then there’s Mitt “First Mormon” Romney. Mormonism, that’s the one with all the polygamy and the secret underwear, right? But he’s from Massachusetts and used to flip on gay civil unions and abortion, but now he flops instead of flipping.
As much as some right-wingers loved to cultivate a visceral hatred for her husband Bill, Clinton is probably the most conservative of all the Democratic presidential candidates. The Clintons are charter members of the Democratic Leadership Council, the group that wanted to bring their party closer to the moderate center or even a little to the right in order to remain viable during the Reagan era. Like the GOP, the DLC is sympathetic to corporate interests and the interests of the wealthy.
FYI; Ken Starr’s law firm has contributed more to Hillary’s campaign than to the top four Republican campaigns combined.
So not only will she be good for hate-marketeers like Limbaugh, O’Rielly and Savage, she might also be good for business. What helps me tolerate the DLC more than the GOP is that they believe in fiscal restraint and responsibility. They don’t believe in huge deficits, operating off-the-books and raiding the Social Security Trust Fund, or in handing massive tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% and oil companies. Just “major” tax “incentives,” not massive tax cuts.
So, we’ve got almost a year and a half to get used to the Washington Post’s fashion reporter getting excited about whether or not the CSPAN camera caught a glimpse of Senator Clinton’s cleavage during a speech about college funding.
Remember the 60’s when people opposed women’s rights because they were afraid that it would lead to unisex bathrooms because civil rights had eliminated racially segregated bathrooms?
Remember the 70’s when comedians could joke about not wanting a woman president because she might drop the bomb if she got PMS?
Remember the 80’s when people started talking half-serious about a woman president because Geraldine Ferraro was the Democratic candidate for Vice President?
Remember the 90’s when women were becoming successful in business but they had to be tougher than men to do it, so we couldn’t imagine a “Fatal Attraction” kind of woman as President?
Well, you might want to get ready for all our old chauvinistic attitudes to become memories.
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