The Trump circus has been wildly entertaining, but the
election is fifteen months away, and the American public is fickle, with the
attention span of a May fly, so I worry.
What will keep us amused during the long Autumn and Winter, the tedious
Spring, and yet another Summer, before the votes are finally cast and counted? I have been brooding over this problem, and
believe I have hit upon a solution.
I have, in the past, observed that Hillary Clinton is the
smartest, most knowledgeable, most deeply experienced Republican currently
running for the Presidency. I think she
needs to announce her candidacy for the Republican nomination. She can explain that she has been deeply
distressed by the partisan feuding between the Congress and the President that
has brought the normal political processes to a standstill, and that she hopes,
by offering herself as a Unity candidate on both party tickets, finally to
bring the nation together again. Since
she has already satisfied whatever legal requirements there are for formal
candidacy for the presidency, she would be good to go for the Republican
nomination immediately.
In light of her sky-high name recognition and the general
ignorance and stupidity of the Republican base, she would almost certainly
garner enough votes in the polling to qualify for the Republican debates. What is more, her policies are, or were at
one time, mainstream Republican. Her
domestic policies are a trifle to the right of those of Eisenhower and Nixon,
and she is easily as Hawkish in foreign policy as Dole or Romney. Her dual candidacy would be a gift of great
value to the bloviating Television commentariat, which is running out of faux astonishment and comic one-liners
about Trump.
To be sure, the Republican National Committee could rule
Clinton unfit to bear their standard, and on those grounds ban her from the
debates, but then they would have to explain why Trump meets their minimal
standards of acceptability when Clinton does not.
During the General Election, she could hold televised debates
with herself. I can hardly wait.
3 comments:
wow... Wolfes book... "Understanding Marx" will be a great success in getting Bernie elected... the American public will for sure elect "Bernie the Marxist" as president
If you are going to snark, at least spell my name right! Jeez.
I read "The Poverty of Liberalism" many years ago--I'd say how many, but I don't really remember or want to admit that I'm that old--and loved it. Well worth reading. And this little mini-essay deserves far greater circulation--it hits a variety of nails right on the head and would actually be both great fun AND tellingly appropriate if it were actually to come about. Bravo!
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