Ever heard of the D.R.A.G. Principle?

[zulchzulu]

Some have asked why people "hate" Hillary Clinton. It's not "hate" as much as most of these people would agree that there is what I call the D.R.A.G. Principle.

D stands for dynasties.
Do Americans want political dynasties? Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton? This opens people's eyes when they suddenly see the obvious. America is better than that. Political dynasties are contradictory to democracy.

Note: D can also stand for dishonesty. There are many stories to choose from, but the recent story about how the Clinton campaign was planting the audiences with people with prepared questions that she would then ask them if they had a question on cue, Hillary responded that she never knew such a thing ever occurred. Watch this video to see how it panned out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fr1dm2Qdls

R stands for Republicans.
What this means is you have to wonder why Rupert Murdoch has held fundraisers for Hillary Clinton and why many if not all RNC operatives have admitted that they would love to have Hillary Clinton as the nominee to run against. Additionally, such a nomination would firmly enliven the Republican base and make races where Democrats could easily win due to Republican animosity now have to fight hard to stop the flood of Republican party loyalists. There are also new revelations from Democrats running in districts where they could squeak by now worried that the negative coat tails a Clinton nomination would bring to their race. From an article that makes that point:

A leaked Democratic poll has suggested that Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner in the race for the party's presidential nomination, could lose the 2008 election because of her "very polarised image".

(snip)

The poll found that Mrs Clinton, in particular, could damage the chances of congressional Democratic candidates on the ballot. The sensitivity of the issue was underlined by the reluctance of Democrats to discuss the survey.

"We're not commenting on this poll," said Daniel Gotoff, co-author of the memo accompanying the Lake Research poll. "It was leaked and obviously not by us."

But Andy Arnold, a Democratic county chairman in Greenville, South Carolina - a key primary state - said: "I'd be a little bit dishonest if I didn't admit that in some parts of the country, and probably my own, having Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket will have some impact further down.

"People have that concern and are voicing it. The thing with Hillary is that most people have their minds made up. There's a fundamentalist crowd who have an inordinate obsession with things sexual and what happened played into that."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/26/wclinton126.xml

A stands for arrogance.
When you have people like Terry McAuliffe claim that those who don't support Hillary Clinton will get the wrath from the Clinton family later when he said "We're ahead, we're going to be the nominee - and we will remember who our friends are." Many oddly also feel that Hillary Clinton is entitled to be President due to the unfortunate lecherousness she had to deal with when First Lady to her husband's extracurricular cuckoldry. We're also supposed to chalk up that personal perspicacity she had as "experience to lead".

When Hillary Clinton launched her campaign, she insinuated that she was the only candidate who could handle the so-called War on Terror because she was in New York when the 9/11 attack happened there:

"As a senator from New York, I lived through 9/11 and I am still dealing with the aftereffects," Clinton said. "I may have a slightly different take on this from some of the other people who will be coming through here.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/02/dear-senator-clinton-we-all-lived.html

If that's not the height of arrogance to say that she knows more about the pain of 9/11 than other candidates, I don't know what is.

G stands for grandstanding.
Are we supposed to believe someone who was a cheerleading hawk and vociferous supporter of Bush's war in Iraq as someone who now has the validity to say that that very war she has never apologized for voting for is somehow to end on her watch? There are many other examples where grandstanding and transparently narcissistic political theater plays to "the center", particularly after saying branded and precisely screened twaddle massages the "base". Recent attacks on Obama going after his kindergarden record and what he might have written in 3rd grade show that desperation alongside with grandstanding have pulled her campaign into what was uncharted pathetic territory.

The recent teaming up with Joe Lieberman with the Kyl/Lieberman amendment and the new antics of trying to censor video games that are already clearly marked is yet one of many examples.

Do people remember when Hillary Clinton wanted to make it a federal crime to desecrate the American flag (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/flag.burning/index.html)? Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysHYyflqS6k

Her campaign has used the Gender Card to somehow advance her campaign. After the debate in Philadelphia where her performance was off, there came the message that she was being picked on:

“It goes beyond logic — it’s a gut response,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said of the spectacle of Clinton onstage confronting seven male rivals and two male moderators at a debate in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.

Smeal, who has endorsed Clinton, compared the debate scene to the congressional grilling of Anita Hill when she challenged Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination in 1991.

“Every woman — it was just so visceral — that panel was all male,” Smeal recalled. “It didn’t matter almost what was being said. It a visceral gut reaction, and I think that’s what you’re seeing here again.”

“Turnabout is fair play,” said Marie Wilson, a Clinton supporter and president of the White House Project, which trains women to enter politics. “When you’re the one and only, those stereotypes are coming at you all the time. If she has one time when she can make them work for her, why not?”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6691.html

The campaign even released an ad that showed her being picked on by males, thus sending the message of feminism back into the 1950's:

She released a cleverly edited video showing rivals John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd uttering her name in rapid-fire succession to the strains of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

The video then cuts to the words, "The Politics of Pile On."

Her top strategist, Mark Penn, told supporters on a conference call that Clinton needed their help to survive "this six-on-one to try to bring her down."

Clinton's advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss internal matters, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her.

The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.

As one adviser put it, Clinton is not the first presidential candidate to play the "woe-is-me card" but she's the first major female presidential candidate to do it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_po/on_deadline_clinton_1

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We'll see what happens in the next weeks and months. Hillary Clinton's campaign was telling us it was inevitable not so long ago. Time will tell.

[dbackjon]

1. You could of saved us a lot of time by just posting

"Hillary sucks - God told me that Hillary can't win the election"

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Is it the head of a school for drag queens?