Recapturing the Hillary Democrats

What’s the female equivalent of the expression *sproing*? I think Darragh just had that moment.

Recapturing the Hillary Democrats

Can’t say I get what he means by recapturing. If Pat was paying attention to what happened in Pennsylvania, they obviously have to do a hell of a lot more than “recapturing.”

Recapturing the <strike>Hillary Democrats</strike> last 37 PUMAs

With the Democratic Party firmly,

They’re gonna take back America but they can’t even handle a press release slightly over a paragraph long. I call a finish-that-thought contest.

Oh, and Tom, I’m guessing something along the lines of “squish.” There, that should make up for a morning spent concern-trolling the dorks on Balloon Juice who thought Letterman’s “slutty” joke deserved defending.

With the Democratic Party firmly, and…

Firmly what, Pat? In charge? Drinking your milkshake? Marrying your daughters? Kee-rist.

I dunno, Kev. It seems like Boehlert already illuminated the issue thoroughly: The “dog whistles” we kept yammering boil down to Obots seizing on unsourced Drudge rumors about the Clinton campaign sending out photos of Obama in African tribesman garb. It illustrates our willingness to co-opt wingnut talking points to slander Clinton. No Clinton supporter ever did that to smear Obama. End of story.

There’s no evidence at all that the Clinton campaign was behind those photos. Everyone knows an ethical dude like Mark Penn wouldn’t go there. And Bill Clinton invoking Jesse Jackson in South Carolina? Just innocently stating a fact. Jesse did run a great campaign!

There’s also no evidence “hard-working Americans, white Americans” was a racial cue. The back-story that we fail to cite was that Clinton gave that address at a Pillsbury factory. Every one of the workers—African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic-Americans included—was a “white American” since they were covered in flour from the shift they’d completed prior to the speech. And yet the rabidly partisan Obot hordes and their media enablers trumped that up into a race-tinged accusation against Clinton.

And Clinton’s claim that she had a much broader base of support, well, can anyone deny it? Just extrapolating from Bill Clinton’s landslide victories and Obama’s crushing defeat…oh wait.

Regarding our alleged “endless grief,” I am so willing to let the whole goddamn primary thing go. But like the Mafia, they keep dragging us back in! We’re supposed to sit still for inaccurate or incomplete portrayals of what is still so fresh in our memories? I don’t think so. A book supposedly about the blogs’ role in the primary should tell the whole fucking story.

But while that remains a valid issue from a historical perspective, what’s past is past as far as where we stand now. Clinton’s questionable behavior in the campaign has fuck-all to do with how she is performing in her present role, which is pretty good, in my estimation.

Regarding our alleged “endless grief,” I am so willing to let the whole goddamn primary thing go. But like the Mafia, they keep dragging us back in! We’re supposed to sit still for inaccurate or incomplete portrayals of what is still so fresh in our memories? I don’t think so. A book supposedly about the blogs’ role in the primary should tell the whole fucking story.

Well put. It’s impossible to argue with people who say we won’t stop relitigating the primaries when it’s clearly only the you-know-who’s and the PB 2.0ers doing it on a daily (hourly?) basis.  I mean, jeebus, I did one quick post about the lopsidedness of Boehlert’s book and a snarky knock-off post about the RBC meeting anniversary and that’s all we’ve had up about the primaries for months. Compare that to the deadender blogs.

Conversely, can somebody explain to me why Clinton would join the administration of a misogynist?

Excellent question! I mean, if I sincerely believed some dude flipped me off, induced rappers to sing about what I bitch I am and imposed Zimbabwe-like electoral standards for the express purpose of fucking me out of a White House gig, I’d probably be maneuvering his nuts into a panini press rather than attempting to help him straighten out our sadly fucked up world. Can Clinton haz smarter supporters now? Yes. She. Can.

Lambert wants a theory.  Here’s mine: Obama, unlike you know who, is an adult.  He understands that identity politics is as old as Plato’s Republic.

Add to that:
1.) He thinks Clinton is motivated and driven.
2.) He wants to win reelection.  That will include hard-working white voters.

I had an earlier theory, but it was largely unprintable.

Reading those links on the “hardworking Americans, white Americans” comments that go back to Pam’s House Blend and Jack and Jill Politics was interesting, inasmuch as those seem to be the very bloggers absent from Boehlert’s tome, at least judging from the reviews I’ve read. But no bias, right? I mean, we’re talking about the LEFT! Whatever do racial and ethnic minorities have to do with progressive issues?

But then again, I’m sure those bloggers of color were just ungrateful darkies who failed to recognize just how wonderful Massa Bill and Missus Hillary were for the black folks during the 90s and all that peace and prosperity. (And welfare reform that tossed poor kids off Medicaid. And more draconian drug sentencing laws that disproportionately affected minority offenders.)

Lambert, et al, are, as has been exhaustively established, WATBs who cannot understand that they are not in the vanguard of anything—not the blogosphere, and sure as shit not progressive politics. Because one cannot be progressive without a politics that at least acknowledges the role of minorities, rather than snarkily pooh-poohing the “historic” victory of a black U.S. president.

They’re lost in the bitter backwash of yesterday. One could pity them for their utter ineffectualness, but then again, they are intellectually dishonest tools and twatwaffles who deserve to be called out whenever necessary.

Lambert Strether.

There! He should be here in about five seconds.
Mr. Strether, nobody said the Clintons are racist in their beliefs.

They were just strategizing based on utilizing other people’s racist beliefs.

Horse of a different color!

Incidentally, when played outside the framework of a politician talking coolly about the backing she expected to help her win, Hillary’s arguing that she did far better among the less-educated seemed to me a rather peculiar boast.

Lambert Strether.

I think you have to say it three times like Beetle Juice.

Please.

Don’t.

;)

The fact that those corrente losers could come over here at any time, respond directly to their critics, but choose to hide inside their little gated blog shooting spitballs at the OFB and the ‘creative classes’ tells you all you need to know about their courageous dedication to truth.

With the Democratic Party firmly,

yet politely urging the Republican Party to seek professional psychological help, the country began to recover from the Dark Ages.

Yeah, because that strategy worked so well for President McCain.

Mrs. Polly, exactly! When Rendell was going on about how his constituents were too racist to ever vote for Obama (which, as Kevin points out above, is a load of horse manure, but whatev), I remember thinking “Um, didn’t YOU just insult white people way more than anyone who pointed out the racist dog whistles of the Clinton camp ever could have done?”

As was pointed out somewhere in that nest o’ links above, few nonwhite bloggers championing Hillary ever questioned whether or not BLACK voters would turn out for her. Nope, the assumption was that the ignint darkies would do as they were told. But white working-class “Reagan Democrats” were more valuable and needed special care and attention. Because they’re WHITE, duh! White white white is the default measure of our society. Kinda like when Tweet The Nimrod was on Limpballs blithering about whether or not Barack Obama could win with “normal” Americans. Or, as Paul Begala would put it, the ones who weren’t “blacks or eggheads.”

(Jesus, I’d forgotten about that Begala clip. Another guy I used to sort of like okay who just smeared himself with his own poo during the primaries.)

That should of course have read “few non-black bloggers championing Hillary.”

Hillary’s arguing that she did far better among the less-educated seemed to me a rather peculiar boast.

Yeah, that one always baffled me too!  Those were strange times, indeed.

globalist trade , open borders,

And allowing commas to pollute our vowels.

I. Gods Country or Obama’s?

Which God?

Or can we revitalize our party and movement to the strength we had during the Reagan Years?

No, but we’ll enjoy watching you try.