As the moratorium on all things PUMA draws near, can I just say a few words about Kristen Breitweiser, the Bill Kristol of the Jersey Girls?
After her vote for George W. Bush in 2000 made her an accessory before the fact in the death of her husband, Kristen endorsed Kerry in 2004 (good job on that campaign, Kristen!). Although she’s the kind of Democrat who refers to us as the “Democrat Party” in her writings to this day…
The widow Breitweiser parlayed her trashing by Ann Coulter into a semi-steady byline at Huffington Post. If you spend a few minutes there reviewing her accumulated works, you can watch a woman descend into PUMAdness. And one trait she shares with the PUMAs is a gift for spectacularly wrong prognostication - they’re the anti-Kreskins of the 21st century.
As a “Democrat,” she was newly empowered to lend her expert advice the “Democrat Party” on the path to success in 2008.
In January, she was so magnanimous in the glow of all the Hillary-inevitability that she was prepared to offer the young upstart Baracky a position as Milady’s Prince Consort:
If Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton really want to be uniters and not dividers, then why don’t they both do something so out-of-the-box and head turning that it would virtually guarantee the White House to the Democrats in 08? Namely: if Clinton is ahead in delegates after the 22 primaries and caucuses on February 5, Obama should stop running and join her in a national unity ticket. No divisive battles like the Reagan-Ford contest in 1976 or the Kennedy-Carter contest in 1980—struggles that probably doomed both Ford and Carter.
By May, her dreams drowned in a sea of undemocratic caucuses and sexist media, she started going all Cassandra on us and unleashed this prophecy of DOOM!!1!
Flash forward to Election Day 08. Can you imagine the backpedaling going on when it comes to explaining how Barack Obama—the Democratic nominee by math not by sensibility—loses key states? What will those pundits say? Can they turn to history and defend themselves by saying that Obama won Ohio in the primary? Pennsylvania? Florida? And what about West Virginia? No Democrat has won the WH since 1916 without winning West Virginia and we all know what happened yesterday. What will they use as their rationale as to why they reasonably expected Obama to win those states in the general? Will they be driven mad with their math and just keep repeating that it wasn’t their fault—it was math’s fault? (Or will they fall back on the usual suspect and blame it on Hillary?)
Maybe they’ll use the argument that Obama was supposed to re-draw the political map. That Obama promised that “all states were in play.” And, what if he turns out to be wrong? What if Obama loses those red states (and even some of those key blue states)? Is it possible that after e-i-g-h-t years of George Bush, we will have another Republican in the WH? Is it fathomable that a Republican like McCain could win by a landslide? Right now Jerome Armstrong at myDD has an electoral college estimate with McCain winning 290 to 248.
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Remember: John McCain is a veteran. John McCain is a former POW. John McCain is a war hero. Moreover, one of John McCain’s sons is currently serving in Iraq. So, if anyone thinks McCain is going to mistreat or misuse our troops—which include his son, they need to think again. Frankly, Obama will look like a fool against McCain because once again, McCain has his real record, history, and even his family to prove his sound leadership and true patriotism. And Obama merely has his words, hope and the video of his wife sounding unpatriotic which will be used over and over and over again.
And that’s why so many Clinton supporters are reluctant to vote for Obama if he becomes the nominee. It’s not because they are bitter. It is because they chose Hillary over Obama for two real reasons: experience and definition.
Come July, and Kristen is licking her lips and enjoying the salty taste of her own bitter tears as she watches Obama fall apart and lose his base over FISA while McCain reigns triumphant:
Admittedly, as someone who will remain a Clinton supporter to the very end, I have been enjoying the rude awakening that many Obama supporters have recently received from !quelle horreur! Barack Obama, himself.
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Reminder to all: The Superdelegates have not yet voted. They cast their vote at the Convention in August which means Hillary Clinton’s “suspended” campaign could be reinstated. (Because, Oh, Yes She Can!)
Somewhere offstage after the Convention, Breitweiser reconciled herself to the reality of the Obama/Biden ticket, this I will grant. However, she spent the fall being the kind of supporter you’d really rather would just shut up and vote, full of advice on how Obama was blowing it in his handling of Palin with his sexist comments and how he was probably going to screw up the economic downturn.
Those were the days. I’ll miss them.
Now, Mrs. Buttwiper is opining one week that if Leon Panetta is confirmed as head of the CIA WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!11!
Choosing Leon Panetta as the new Director of the CIA is foolish and dangerous.
Thanks to 8 years of the Bush administration’s squandering resources abroad in Iraq, our homeland security remains woefully inadequate and stunningly vulnerable. Ports of entry, airline security, airport security, chemical and nuclear plants, mass transportation, biological facilities, water and food sources and even our banking systems all remain soft targets. Additionally, if historical indicators and patterns hold up, the timing may be ripe for another domestic terrorist attack.
In short, Americans can ill-afford an inexperienced Director of the CIA, who either doesn’t appreciate our current terrorist threat or under-estimates it. This is no time for a learning curve or on the job training. Placing a person like Leon Panetta at CIA for his clean hands and “managerial expertise” will cost lives on the day of the next domestic terrorist attack.
Then a week later, she informs us that torture is a bad thing (sounding suspiciously like Leon Panetta) and we should scale back the powers of the Executive Branch:
Now that the Democrats are in control, they must dismantle the absolute, unchecked power transferred to the Oval Office during the Bush years. Cheney’s work needs to be undone. Because such boundless Executive power is dangerous in any Administration—and not just the outwardly reckless, agenda-driven Republican ones. We must not forget that.
Kristen, honey, speaking on behalf of the Democrat Party, it’s OK with me if you want to go back to being a Republican. Really.
