When analyzing the great President Jimmy Carter, then President Bill Clinton and now paradigm shifting/racist infuriating President Barack Obama the Republican party's response pattern is more obvious than Sara Palin's ignorance.
Jimmy Carter was elected and the character attacks and political resistance began immediately. President Carter actually practiced what he preached which gave ammunition to everyone in D.C. (Dems included) making it easier for Republicans to damage his image.
Mr. Carter refused to be a good old boy in the Democratic money network, was not a warmonger angering the military establishment so he was attacked from all sides. The Iran hostage affair, and gas shortage made it "easy" to hold him to one term so Republicans didn't have to use their "second term" tactics.
President Bill Clinton, a great manager, a great politician who brilliantly created "triangulation" ate the Republicans' lunches but unfortunately took triangulation too far with signing Glass Steagall out of law, and implementing NAFTA without getting much in return in my opinion.
But President Clinton won a second term, presided over a hugely successful economy which ended with a $2 trillion budget surplus, taking the "tax and spend" label away from Republican psychopaths. So, they took character assassination to the extreme and impeached the brilliant man for nothing.
Now, another brilliant Democratic President won a second term. (An African American became POTUS, defeating the Clinton machine and DCCC along with ruthless Republicans. Have to acknowledge that tremendous achievement in its own right.)
The first term obstruction and character assassinations have not worked, and damaging the economy on purpose has not worked so now they are talking impeachment on cue, before the 2014 midterms. This is designed to continue the negative message to the low information voters.
(It did not work against Clinton I know, but that's because Republicans are in a bubble as well as they have nothing else. They certainly can't pivot and suddenly work with him, they would lose their pathetic, ignorant base. A base which is mainly the religiously insane and the Klu Klux Klan.)
Anyway, if impeachment talk helps them in 2014 they won't impeach him, but will continue to keep it in the conversation. If Democrats do well in the midterms, and I think they will because D.C. and the MSM is so out of touch these days they haven't a clue then I think Republicans will impeach him.
Obviously if senate is in Dems hands he won't be convicted, but if Senate were to be in Republican's hands from 2014 - 2016 then they will follow the Clinton playbook of losing by one vote. They know they would set a precedence, the only want to always have the image of a weak/corrupt Democratic President.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I have had enough of this. Republicans are sick people, where they've now proven power means more to them than American lives. Republicans have proven they will stop at nothing to keep power including the very real risk to Earth itself with fossil fuels and climate change, as well as destroy our economy for a psychopathic structure of 1% owns us, and the rest are indentured servants.
It is that bad and Republicans are that cruel and sick in my opinion which is why we must push and fight with all we have to remove the Republican party from political existence. As you all know, this is serious stuff.
Capitalism has failed and exists now due to Democrats. Twice Democrats have knowingly saved capitalism and it has to stop. FDR and his party, and Obama and our corporate Dems. This time, we continued bailing out the banks as well as give them interest free loans on the side to keep them afloat while they write off the bad loans they made during housing crises.
We are in trouble friends, as you well know. Our party of Democrats know at least that a robust economy requires the middle and lower classes to have disposable income, but they are bought and paid for by the oligarchs too. To the point of allowing Wall Street to destroy us then propping them up.
In conclusion, we must find a way to demonstrate to the Democratic Party that voting for "the lesser of two evils" is no longer acceptable. I say this:
We demand progressive leaders and if they are corporatists we don't vote for them. I know the damage it will cause, but how else can the faithful base of the Democratic Party flex our muscles?
Seriously, I ask you how else can we do it? Also, do you agree with my assessment?
With that said, I believe Hillary Clinton to be a corporatist not a Democrat. Look at her record. Do we really want her shoved down our throats? Maybe I'm wrong, and I know she is a good person, but she voted for credit card reform, IRAQ war, and seems to side with Wall Street, then tell us she loves us!
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