Democrats and their Dilemma- the “Inevitable” Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders

Democrats and their Dilemma- the “Inevitable” Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders

For Democrats, it wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to be their nominee in 2008, but then along came a charismatic candidate who excited a base that was just barely out of reach for the former first lady, and that is how they ended up with President Barack Obama. After all, why else did the former first lady of Arkansas, and a native of Illinois, move to New York and become, in effect, a “carpetbagger” candidate for the United States Senate? It was so she would have a platform to run for the nation’s highest office. When she came up short in this quest for her husband’s old job, and in exchange for her own and Bill Clinton’s eventual support, Obama gave Mrs. Clinton his most powerful cabinet post, Secretary of State.

Yet Hillary Clinton, whose ambition and desire for power knows no limits, was not satisfied to be anyone’s secretary- not even Secretary of State- and that may prove to be the ultimate explanation as to why she insisted on having her own server for e-mails, outside the reach of her two bosses- those being the president and, ultimately, the American people.

Hillary Clinton is nothing if not an irrepressible and inexhaustible example of idiosyncrasy and hypocritical irony. The patron political saint of feminism who has always believed and avowed the feminist ideal that “women can make it on their own,” she ultimately achieved her own power from nothing else but the fact that she was married to William Jefferson Clinton. Her ascendancy to being the first female partner with the Rose Law firm followed her husband’s election to the governorship of Arkansas, the year after he took office. Her election as Senator from New York, having had no association with the Empire State prior to this election, was clearly made possible by the fact of her husband’s presidency and nothing else. Her status and influence in the Democrat Party all derived from her husband’s political success, and nothing more.

This great defender of all things related to women’s advocacy and women’s rights has repeatedly flown in the face of those particular women who had complained of her husband’s uninvited sexual advances and assaults. From Juanita Broaddrick, who alleged that then- Arkansas Attorney General William Jefferson Clinton raped her while he was running for governor, to Paula Jones who sued the president for defamation of character, relating to his sexual harassment of her while he was governor (leading to his impeachment for perjury while president), to Kathleen Willey, who claimed that President Clinton sexually assaulted her in the Oval Office on the very day of her own husband’s tragic suicide, to Monica Lewinsky who was forced to produce a blue dress with the president’s DNA to prove that she had actually performed fellatio on the president in that same office, Hillary Clinton has had a history of sicking her attack dogs on these women, and many more. If there is anything that feminism- true feminism- opposes, it is enabling lecherous husbands from marital infidelity, but at the end of the day, Hillary Clinton has been just that- Bill Clinton’s enabler.

Now that Hillary Clinton, her immediate staff at the State Department, and the Clinton Foundation, itself, are all under criminal investigation by the FBI, the once-thought-to-be inevitable Democrat is facing a challenge from a seventy-four year-old avowed socialist and former communist Bernie Sanders, who once opined that it was every woman’s secret fantasy to be gang-raped by three men at the same time, in a 1972 essay published in the now-defunct Vermont Freeman, entitled Men and Women. Wrote Sanders:

 “A man goes home and masturbates (to) his typical fantasy- a woman on  her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused, (while) a woman enjoys intercourse  with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men  simultaneously.”

What’s a loyal Democrat partisan to do, faced with such choices?

Such a dilemma is precisely  why it is fortunate to be safely settled on the other side of the Democrat Party in 2016.

 

-Drew Nickell, 19 February 2016

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