TPS: The Hillary Clinton Edition
Everyone has their tipping point - commonly referred to as “Tipping Point Syndrome” or “TPS.” TPS is the moment in time when, like Larry David, a person goes from feeling sorry for Hillary Clinton and thinking, “Oh Christ, let her win already…Who cares…It’s not worth it. There’s not that much difference between them. She can have it,” to realizing she WILL do anything to win and she IS killing the party. For him, it was the Red Phone ad. For me, it was her decision to laud John McCain’s national security cred over Barack Obama’s:
I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold, and I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that, and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy.
Yesterday I used “Senator Clinton” “Fear-mongering” and “Bitch” in the same sentence. I’m ashamed. Almost tearfully so. But I’m also pissed. And if you’re a Democrat, you should be too.
Besides being offensive, it’s a strategic short-sighted blunder. If she does win the nomination, all her pro-McCain rhetoric will come back and bite her in the butt. Would a Republican candidate do anything similar? Has John McCain? No and No.
This post was written by Mary Mancini
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March 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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March 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Mary,
You don’t get it. She doesn’t care about your vote. She knows that as pissed off as you are now, that you’ll vote for her in November, so she can take you for granted. She knows the same thing about blacks.
But she doesn’t know that about the Reagan Democrats. Their vote isn’t one that can be taken for granted. She needs them; she’s already got you.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Bob,
She HAD me. Big diff.
But you’re right - it’s the undecided dems and the independents she’s clearly pushing into McCain’s camp.
Mary
March 7th, 2008 at 11:49 am
You say that now but come November you know that you’ll be back. There’s no way you can stomach the thought of four more years of Republican rule. And you hate that I’m right about that, don’t you?
March 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Bob -
I’ve said before - in my support of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee (search the blog for the “Let’s See How Far We Come” post) - that I would sacrifice “four more years of Republican rule” to see how far we’ve come as a country. This is no different.
Time will tell.
Mary