I’ve seen a lot of posts in the past week from Democrats saying we can’t have Clinton as the nominee because they don’t want her “baggage.”
That might be the dumbest thing I’ve heard yet. Because while we’re all pretty tired of the endless Clinton attacks, you must have slept through the last 20 years if you don’t get it: It doesn’t matter who we run. They will do the same thing to whoever the candidate is.
The last time people were using that excuse, we got Obama. The right wing didn’t have any problem at all, making him into a white-hating, revolutionary Mooslim, did they?
If it’s Elizabeth Warren, she will be Pocahontas. (She’s already called that on wingnut sites.) If it’s Bernie Sanders, he will be a commie. If it’s Martin O’Malley, he will be a corrupt Eastern mayor.
If anything, I think people are used to tuning out the Clinton attacks because they know they’ve never amounted to much. The only people who ever really care about this crap are wingnuts — and the lapdog media.
And if you don’t think the same media that allowed John Kerry’s war record to be smeared won’t let it happen again, you’re dreaming.
One of my Reich-wind acquaints has already received instruction in not referring to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas. Didn’t scapl him – scalping was in fact a white dog thing: selling hides for bounty – but he wishes I had.