Year of the Clothespin

Senator Clinton survived the March 4, 2008 primaries and lives to fight another day. The Republicans are ecstatic. Her victories in Ohio and Texas guarantee she will continue to tear Senator Obama apart for at least another few months.

The electorate will be bombarded with variations of the Clintons’ message—Senator Obama is an empty suit. This is true, but unpalatable to the super liberals. Remember in their view of the world order ethnicity trumps gender. Thus, he is entitled to be the chosen one.

The Clintons are well aware that they lost the hearts and minds of the Hate America crowd months ago, so they have nothing to lose by continuing.

The left wingers are going ballistic. They worship Obama and want Hillary to concede the contest. And with good reason. Hillary can win the remaining twelve states and still come up short of delegates. Statistically she has to crush Obama, capturing about 63% of the votes in each coming election.

The likelihood of this happening is improbable—but possible. It’s doable because the Clintons are not afraid of bloodshed.

They are betting that their campaign message and the media’s recent focus on Senator Obama’s lack of credentials will undermine his sainthood status. Once it’s exposed that the king in waiting has no cloths, they see the rank and file Democrats abandoning him in droves.

That’s the Clinton game plan. They will spend the next six weeks savaging Obama. Behind-the-scenes they will bribe, threaten and cajole the Super Delegates.

It’s going to get Clinton ugly.

This all benefits the Republicans. If Senator Obama manages to win, he will be damaged goods. If Senator Clinton wins, African Americans will believe they were robbed of the chance to vote for a black president. They will be riot and loot angry.

The Clintons aren’t worried.

Hillary and Bill understand the black leaders will huff and puff and threaten to sit the election out. The pair will regard this backlash as a big so what? For fifty years the Democrats have purchased their cooperation with government largess. Expect more of the same.

The Clintons will fill a barf bag with treats and the black constituency will follow it to the polls like mice to a flute tune. This is the identical strategy of Senator McCain. He is romancing the conservatives who disdain him as much as Clinton and Obama. In the end he expects to win their votes by default.

So it appears that 2008 will be the Year of the Clothespin. These handy little devices will be prominent on the noses of much of the electorate as they head to the ballot boxes.