It is amazing how the actions of a senator whose name many right-wingers would rather have buried out of sight and out of mind still causes quite a stir. It is perhaps the very testament to the threat that she poses to the direction our nation’s leaders and followers want it to take. You know who I am talking about: Hillary! Clinton.

I didn’t blog about the visits to Iraq by both Bush and Hillary! because I believe there’s hardly anything really worth saying.

Many have taken the task at picking apart the ramifications of Hillary’s visit. Chris Lawrence is considering the news and trying to find out whether she was indeed performing a class act or not. Matt Stinson himself admits that getting into her head is impossible (and rightfully so). Dean Esmay himself has pinned down what I’m trying to say here:

Unfortunately, I think your average person sees Hillary Clinton as the backroom leader of the Democratic Party. They also see her doing absolutely nothing to upbraid Democratic Presidential candidates who, for the most part, have been using the inevitable casualties and setbacks in the war effort for their own partisan ends. Every casualty proof of failure and incompetence, every success ignored or portrayed as insufficient. That’s how the most partisan Democrats have been behaving for most of this last year, and most of the Democratic Presidential candidates have either done this directly, or tacitly given it approval by not objecting to it. With no one (except obscure figures like Zell Miller) within Democratic ranks calling people out for this attrocious behavior, it makes Democrats look terrible. Your average moderate Democrat might be able to escape being lumped in with the worst elements like that, but Senator Clinton is largely seen as one of her party’s main ringleaders. This makes her powerful, but it also makes her look more guilty by association than your average Senator or Congressman. [Emphasis added --- ed.]

The Left needs to burn down its house. It needs to destroy itself and rebuild from the ashes of their self-destruction.

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