I’m the last person in the world who has had anything good to say about Hillary Clinton. Yet last night I visited a pair of websites (Hillbuzz and HillaryClintonForum.net) maintained by her supporters. For the first time I understood how important her candidacy was to many people. And for the first time in many months, in their talk among themselves, I saw a glimmer of hope for America.
How ironic – and quite frankly, humbling – it will be should Hillary’s supporters turn out to be the vote that spares this nation a Barack Obama presidency. I say this because a number of posters at these websites expressed this theme:
“I agree with everything that the Democratic Party stands for. But America comes first. I will be voting for John McCain.”
It begs the question, does it not, that were the roles reversed and a Republican thug with a carefully media-sanitized past was running for the presidency, would you and I have the same courage? Would we be able to say, “America comes first,” and vote for an honorable candidate running on a party platform with which we disagreed on almost everything?
While many of us disliked Hillary, her candidacy may have been the “canary in the coal mine” for America. The details of thuggery and abuse by Obama supporters during the Democratic caucuses is nothing short of hateful contempt not only for America, but the democratic process in its entirety. It is a horrifying glimpse of how they would govern, should their media-obscured thuggery prevail.
ACORN’s voter registration fraud and the Obama campaign’s support of it to the tune of $800,000 is the “new deal” Barack Obama has in mind for America. FDR he ain’t. Thank you to so many across the aisle for recognizing it, and even more courageously, acting upon it.
