“I won’t let anyone Swift Boat this country’s future.”
Those were Hillary Clinton’s words tonight.
Claims like those are precisely what people are talking about when they say Democrats are no better than Republicans, because it takes either ignorance or partisan blinders to not see right through that.
Charades like that are what make people go to someone like Ralph Nader while Democrats accuse those defectors of handing victory to the Republicans.
When Democrats criticize “Swift boating” yet tolerate campaign behavior like Hillary Clinton’s, the Republicans and their Karl Roves have already won. When Democrats will crown a candidate that knowingly exploits racism in her attempts to defeat a black candidate, what does it mean to vote Democrat?
People always assume I’m a Democrat. Disgusting displays like this are precisely why I’m not. Each party has its good people who genuinely want good things for the country, and each party has its power hungry that will do and rationalize whatever it takes to win.
Say you’re going to win, say you’re better for the job, fine. But come on, don’t pretend you’re somehow above the pettiness when your supporters say your ability to play dirty like Republicans is one of your strengths.
“I won’t let anyone Swift Boat this country’s future.”
Whatever.
well that’s practically a ready-made political cartoon –>
Hillary: “I won’t let anyone Swift Boat this country’s future…”
[head tilts forward, darkening here eyes, and an evil grin curls upward from her lips, cutting a diabolical shape into a chalky, yet sallow face]
Hillary: “That is a very special job reserved just for Former President Clinton. heh heh heh.”
Just because I’m a silly asshole who goes too far: I further envision Billy in the background, sitting on a hotel bed, indian style, intently raising a piece of bedsheet fabric in one hand with a pair of scissors raised in the other.