Big Tent Democrat should come down from his cloud

Once again, Big Tent Democrat has deigned to tell us mere mortals what is sane and insane as far as electoral politics are concerned. This was prompted by the persistent rumor that Hillary would be replacing Joe Biden as VP. Let me say for the record my own thoughts about this rumor: clearly it is an attempt to get the Clinton Democrats back on board with the least amount of pain or effort required from the elements of the Democratic party that put Obama in the White House in 2008 and it’s not going to work for *this* voter. As I will patiently explain to my relatives who may be initially intrigued by this rumor, it will do nothing to change the direction of the country and it will do everything to end Clinton’s visibility. It’s a bone they are trying to throw us to see if we’ll bite. I won’t.

Furthermore, I don’t think the country can wait until 2016 for Hillary to become president. No, in fact, BTD must be crazy if the thinks that there won’t be a much more viable politician on the horizon in eight years. By then, the one party system that currently appears to be two parties will be even more firmly in place and the new crop of voters won’t remember the good old days of the Clintons.

Voters are angry. They were promised change and they didn’t get it. I take that back. They voted for a Democrat and they got a Republican instead. If Obama runs again in 2012, there will be a whole lot of people who will stay home. If Hillary runs in 2012, she’ll win in a landslide.

Here’s the problem as I see it: there are a number of “very serious bloggers” who are listening to the party infiltrators who now have control of the Democratic party. And then there are the tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free who don’t know what those guys are smoking. The unwashed masses are not well off, self employed hacks. They’re not jaded cynical “pols will be pols and they do what they do” types. No, they are average everyday taxpayers who are getting taken to the cleaners by the people who the new batch of “realist” Democrats support.

Don’t blame us when we don’t show up to the polls to vote for Obama. In 2012, he will have had four years to turn things around. He is not automatically entitled to a second term. If you run him again, the Democrats deserve to lose. Better to have an ethically run primary and when he loses it, have him step down in 2012. Give Hillary a chance to step up to the plate and play the role of Democrat in Charge.

I realize the sane people never listen to us. But we crazies have been right up to this point. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

(sent from my iPad, I’ll put the links in later)