Hillary And The Radical Right: Massaging The Kobe Beef

I love watching FauxNews just after something terrible happens to the GOP, and let's face it -- Lamont's victory over Lieberman last night was the worst thing to happen to the Republicans in quite a while. Lieberman's humiliating defeat has made it clear to everyone that Iraq will be the dominant issue in the run-up to the Mid-Terms, and this really must be scaring the hell out of the Republicans who blindly followed Bush into that particular catastrophe.

Well, one of the things that FoxNews was talking about this morning was whether Lamont's victory will affect Hillary Clinton's campaign for president. One Fox anchorwoman seems genuinely upset at the prospect that Hillary may have to switch gears and start acting like "some of the more leftist elements of her party" (or something like that). The pundit with whom this anchorwoman was sharing screen time assured her that Hillary would not go down this path, and you could see the great relief on the anchorwoman's face upon hearing that particular prediction.

I couldn't help but laugh. Just a few years ago, Hillary was the Princess of Freaking Darkness for Fox News and other members of the Extreme Right. Man, how times have changed. Even FoxNews owner Rupert Murdoch is now hosting fundraisers for Hillary.

Of course, Murdoch and all the other radical right wing extremists want Hillary to get the Democratic nomination in 2008, because they know they can beat her. This is because she initially supported the Iraq War, which means that the GOP could easily accuse Hillary of flip-flopping on Iraq, just like they did with Kerry and Edwards in 2004.

The last thing the GOP wants to see is the Democrats nominate someone who consistently opposed the Iraq Invasion, because they know that the Iraq Debacle will be the number one campaign issue in 2008 and such a nominee would be able to attack his GOP opponent at will on that issue. All the GOP would be able to do in response is precisely what they were tried to do with Lamont, namely, brand such a candidate as an American-hating, terrorist-loving leftist who is weak on national security.

Well, as we found out last night, such a strategy won't work, because voters are fed up with how this country has been handling its foreign policy and are more than happy to take their frustration into the voting booths and punish those politicians who made the mistake of blindly supporting George Bush. They are so fed up, in fact, that even a three-term senator and former democratic vice-presidiential candidate couldn't get re-elected and was essentially forced to abandon the Democratic Party.