Maybe hillary will feel the "bern" and move her policies more to where they need to be.
Isn't that "etch-a-sketching"?
Hillary in the Etch-a-Sketch April 21, 2015 BY Dylan Gallimore
Last Sunday, Hillary Clinton appeared in the middle of a Starbucks commercial and informed viewers of her plans to run for president. And while Clinton caravanned across the country to Iowa, the left got to work preparing to convince itself that the former secretary of state will make a fine crusader for their causes, despite Clinton’s career-long record of proving otherwise.
After eight disappointing years of a president many on the left regard as either too moderate or too unwilling to do battle with those cranky Republicans, liberals are thirsting for a true blue icon who will fight unabashedly for their issues. And if polls of Democratic voters are any indicator, they’ve already settled on Clinton. Her numbers are sky high among Democrats. the Real Clear Politics average of polls gives her an unprecedented 47.6 point lead over the next closest contender.
With her announcement, Clinton just inherited a campaign in waiting––the Ready for Hillary super PAC. Factor in the Clinton’s fundraising apparatus and widespread name recognition, and perhaps it’s no surprise that the left is doing everything it can to accept Hillary Clinton as its new messiah.
In drawing this conclusion, the left isn’t just shooting itself in the foot—it’s lopping off the whole leg with wild abandon. In so many ways, Hillary Clinton is the Democrat’s Mitt Romney—she’s a flawed, dynastic candidate attempting to repackage herself after losing the last time around. She struggles to come off as authentic and will have to engage in some serious rhetorical gymnastics in order to convince skeptical primary voters that she’s strong on their issues.
The larger shame for the left, however, isn’t a tactical one but an ideological one. Clinton’s career and accomplishments should be anathema to liberals—her policy positions have been weak, even antithetical, to the issues championed by the left these days. Clinton didn’t only argue and vote for the war in Iraq—as secretary of state, she pushed for America’s engagement in Libya and pushed even further for engagement in Syria. Her foreign policy resembles John McCain’s, and I don’t recall liberals marching to the polls to cast their ballot for the famously hawkish Arizona senator in 2008.
Clinton also didn’t express her support for gay marriage until 2013, and during an otherwise softball interview with NPR’s Terry Gross, she utterly failed to explain what took her so long. And while Clinton has, to her credit, worked diligently to define herself as an international women’s advocate, she’s married to the architect of the most famous patriarchal lie in American history. At minimum, that’s an irony that will make for an awkward conversation or two out on the campaign trail or the debate stage.
She’s cozy with the banks, hawkish on foreign policy and slow to evolve on social issues—not exactly the champion for which the left so badly yearns—especially after a disappointing two terms of the would-be liberal icon who vanquished Clinton in 2008.
During the primary campaign, the former secretary of state will be doing everything she can to recast herself as a populist liberal icon—she eats at Chipotle! She says things like “The deck is stacked!” She gets me!—and it might work well enough for the left to trick itself into believing that Clinton is a leader on their issues. But the American voters have a long history of rejecting in-authenticity at the polls on Election Day. Call it the “etch-a-sketch strategy,” and just ask President Romney how it worked out. http://udreview.com/hillary-in-the-etch-a-sketch/
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