Monday, January 23, 2006

Not. Backing. Hillary.

That Molly Ivins... whatta woman! I have been saying it for weeks, but I am so glad someone of her stature has gone on record as saying: Not. Backing. Hillary. As far as I'm concerned she may be a nice woman, but she's a Republican and they can have her. As for Ivins?
I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.

Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
Absolutely. Enough is enough. Tired of candidates who tell people what they want to hear rather than what they should hear because they think we can't handle the truth or we're big babies and will vote for the other schmuck.
You sit there in Washington so frightened of the big, bad Republican machine you have no idea what people are thinking. I'm telling you right now, Tom DeLay is going to lose in his district. If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to OWN the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
Me too. Been saying that for months now... I'm done. Pointing out the hypocrites & liars in the White House, Congress & Media should be like shooting fish in a barrel but all I hear is the deafening sound of silence.
Do it all, go long, go for public campaign financing for Congress. I'm serious as a stroke about this — that is the only reform that will work, and you know it, as well as everyone else who's ever studied this. Do all the goo-goo stuff everybody has made fun of all these years: embrace redistricting reform, electoral reform, House rules changes, the whole package. Put up, or shut up. Own this issue, or let Jack Abramoff politics continue to run your town.

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Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.
That, ladies & gentlemen, is what one calls "a woman on fire" and Democratic candidates would do well to do every f@#king thing she says. Now who do I send this message to?