Clinton knows she cannot win the nomination. The Clintons have now switched to plan C.

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Mon Apr-28-08 03:23 PM
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Clinton knows she cannot win the nomination. The Clintons have now switched to plan C.

Edited on Mon Apr-28-08 03:27 PM by AdHocSolver

In a previous post, I described Clinton plan B, which was essentially to help McCain win in 2008 by sabotaging Obama's candidacy. Bringing up racial issues to "scare" right-wingers to vote for McCain, questioning Obama's ability to be ommander-in-Chief, in spite of the fact that neither she nor McCain have any more credible credentials than Obama, and unfairly accusing Obama supporters of being sexist to rile up her own supporters to be hostile to Obama.

The goal of plan B was to help McCain win in 2008 so that Clinton would present herself as the I-told-you-so candidate in 2012 to run for the Presidency. However, I pointed out that a downside of plan B is that this scenario would so fracture the Democratic Party that it wouldn't be able to elect a dog catcher let alone a president.

While the Clintons demonstrate a vile overwhelming lust for power at all costs, they aren't stupid. They have to understand that their actions will debilitate the Democratic Party and make Hillary, even should she somehow get the nomination, unelectable. She has only one real shot to become president in 2012.

Her courting the right wing, her praising McCain over Obama, and her playing the "race" card all point to only one logical conclusion. Hillary Clinton is working strenuosly to become John McCain's vice-presidential running mate.

You don't see McCain willingly picking Hillary to be his running mate? It won't be a willing choice. McCain isn't driving the bus. He is merely along for the ride. Obama's main constituency, African Americans, the young, and new voters are readily targeted by the Republicans and the right-wing for disenfranchisement. The Republicans have proven methods in place to deny these groups the vote or "lose" the vote count.

On the other hand, we have Hillary's constituency, "older" thinking, cynical, conservative, and many who fervently believe that women have been more "oppressed" in our history than black people. This is a group upon whom history, facts, and logic have no influence. They will willingly follow her anywhere, even off a cliff. (To those who say how can I describe her constituency in this way, all that you have to do is string together the pro-Hillary posts here on DU and extract the common theme that runs through them. It isn't rocket science.)

This agenda has Karl Rove's mentality all over it. It sounds far-fetched, an attack that Democrats could never see coming, and wouldn't believe even if described to them. Aside from a few notable exceptions, such as Howard Dean and John Edwards, the leadership of the Democratic Party is fatally flawed by a lack of imagination and an arrogance that knows no limit and ensures failure.

While Joe Lieberman fawns over McCain to garner a Cabinet position, Hillary wants no less than to be McCain's running mate. Her defection will shatter the Democratic Party and doom it to irrelevancy. McCain will be president for one term and then step aside for his V-P to run in 2012. The way will be paved for generations of Bush-Clinton dynasties under a Republican political hegemony.

Most of you are now trying to convince yourselves that I am loony and this scenario could never happen. My answer to you is that your skepticism is shared by roadkill just before contact.