Author: Brett Fujioka
A vote for Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is a gesture of support for the Republican Party. Yeah, I said it, because it had to be said. There’s a reason why so many right-wing pundits and politicians are openly excited about her standing neck-and-neck with Obama. Not only would Senator McCain defeat her with ease, but if, by the slimmest possibility, she does manage to win in the 2008 election, she’d rule this country under the same guidelines as a Republican.
Before Slick Willy converted her, Clinton lived in a staunchly conservative household and was politically active in the Republican Party during her college years at Wellesley. As much as I’d like to believe that people can change their mindset for better or for worse, I highly doubt that Clinton has surrendered herself wholly to the Democratic ideology that she supposedly embraces. The apple cannot fall too far from the tree.
Despite her political career along the Democratic tract, Clinton’s prior employment would suggest an alternate political affiliation. She served as a member of Wal-Mart’s corporate board of directors for six years-a company which refuses the right of its employees to unionize. The Democratic Party has supported the workers’ right to unionize throughout the years, and only a dismal selection of right-wingers openly resent the existence of unions in the workforce.
A vote for Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is a gesture of support for the Republican Party. Yeah, I said it, because it had to be said. There’s a reason why so many right-wing pundits and politicians are openly excited about her standing neck-and-neck with Obama. Not only would Senator McCain defeat her with ease, but if, by the slimmest possibility, she does manage to win in the 2008 election, she’d rule this country under the same guidelines as a Republican.
Clinton’s expressed support for Senator McCain’s candidacy also demonstrates where her true allegiance lies. This gesture is not only capriciously stupid, but it is a selfish betrayal of her own party. She knows that her chances of winning the Democratic nomination are slim and she is willing to compromise this opportunity for the Democratic party to win back the White House, just so she can run again in 2012. In her childish mind, if she can’t have the presidency in 2008, then no one in her party can.
If that isn’t enough evidence of where her true affiliations lie, then I’ll use another highly esteemed political pundit as an example. Ann Coulter, one of the most unreasonably conservative female commentators aside from Michelle Malkin, endorsed Hillary Clinton under the condition that Senator John McCain earns the Republican Party’s nomination. Yeah, that’s right. Ann Coulter, the same woman who wanted to kill all the men in the Middle East and convert their women and children to Christianity, is a Clinton supporter. She said this during a broadcast of Fox’s Hannity & Colmes on Jan. 31, 2008 and even offered to campaign for Clinton because, as she says, “[Clinton] is more conservative than McCain.” It takes a right-winger to know a right-winger, and the judge just finalized her decree.
Furthermore, Clinton has done more to divide the Democratic Party than any other public figure. Since she has already driven her own purported party into halves, she would undoubtedly split the country in two (or perhaps even the world-much the same way President George W. Bush did to secure his own presidency).
Her campaign is being run almost as despicably as those orchestrated by Karl Rove. One of the aides to her campaign previously distributed emails alleging that Obama was a secret Muslim despite his actual association with the United Church of Christ. The whole logic that because Obama is of African Kenyan descent, and since a lot of Kenyans are Muslim he must be an Islamic extremist, is not only ignorant but extremely racist. I’d expect that kind of bigotry stemming from Pat Buchanan, George Allen or David Duke, but not from someone who claims to be progressively liberal. Clinton’s campaign strategy has placed her alongside the likes of George W. Bush, and has clearly demonstrated where her true loyalties lie.
I hate to offend any Republicans out there by associating their party with such a terrible candidate, but I just wanted to emphasize how foolish it is for anybody to even consider Clinton as a Presidential candidate compatible with the general sentiment of the Democratic Party. I’m not saying that her campaign tactics are congruent to those of all Republicans, but her strategies are polarizing; they rank her alongside some of the most wretchedly ignoble politicians out there.
If you voted for Clinton under the Democratic ticket, then congratulations-you just voted for a Republican. However, if you’re a Republican who disguised himself as a Democrat and voted for her because she’s un-electable, then I further congratulate you for being wiser than the majority of actual Clinton supporters out there. All I can say is that the Democratic Party is about to get itself screwed-just as it did in the two previous elections.
Brett Fujioka is a senior ECLS major. He can be reached at bfujioka@oxy.edu.
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