2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Hillary Clinton/Neocon Merger
The Hillary Clinton/Neocon Merger
By Graham E. Fuller
May 14, 2016
Bottom line is that Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton will no longer have to worry about winning over the Sanderss Left some of whom might well stay home on Election Day. The massive support of Republicans, and especially neocons, will bail Hillary out.
Hillary will indeed embrace this Republican support and will accommodate to it. Indeed her basic political instincts have been all along in that direction anyway rather than to the left.
And that means we are guaranteed to have a President Hillary Clinton far to the right of Obama who barely qualifies even as centrist himself.
In short, the essential pressures that Bernie has been exerting to pressure Hillary to the left so vital to balanced government are being cancelled out. Bernies influence, and all those who revel in the fresh air of his platform, will be drowned out in the new love-fest between Hillary Clinton and the Republicans, whose key neocon figures like Robert Kagan and Charles Krauthammer now enthusiastically and publicly embrace her.
The handwriting on the wall is clear: the advisers, counselors, so-called brain trusts and special aides around her (some of whom even infiltrated into Obamas ranks) those who remain blindly impervious in their serial defeats in foreign policy they will all be back in full force to offer us same-old-same-old losing foreign policies dating back to George W. Bush.
Read the full article at:
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/14/the-hillary-clintonneocon-merger/
Merryland
(1,134 posts)which seems to be beyond party identity. God do we need Bernie Sanders.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)That is it! She has a nose for $$$$$$$ and goes wherever she can find it knowing that CA$H IS THE KEY TO ATTAINING THE POSITION OF POWER THAT SHE HAS MALIC***SLY SOUGHT FOR DECADES!
Such blind ambition is pathological... We will be the people who pay as will especially those who follow us ... IF there is still an America that exists... KICK AND REC!
annavictorious
(934 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)The argument is, no one right of Nixon is a Democrat. Many current party members fit that description
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)We don't even seem to know what being left of Nixon is these days...and the rush ever rightward continues.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)I'm sorry if we have failed to point that out strongly enough for you.
Broward
(1,976 posts)GOP and Third Way framing, you'd see that she's a right-winger.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I am from one of her home-states...we are one of the worst in union rights, education, racism, etc...but hey she was not the governor, just the the wife so not sure if that counts against her since they like to claim her 1st lady experience but only when it is convenient. They could use her time on the Walmart board if they wanted to show her experience. But hey if you want to ignore all of the studies that showed Hillary basically voted the way her donors to the Clinton foundation or her liked then she is a great liberal.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)she cannot represent any one of us....here at home....ever! Get it?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)A big green dollar sign would be crass.
The handwriting on the wall is clear: the advisers, counselors, so-called brain trusts and special aides around her (some of whom even infiltrated into Obamas ranks) those who remain blindly impervious in their serial defeats in foreign policy they will all be back in full force to offer us same-old-same-old losing foreign policies dating back to George W. Bush.
Same-old-same-old foreign policies that profit the 1% nicely.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Ya think Goldwater's point right for a reason?
Merryland
(1,134 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)Any pre-schooler knows how to read that sign.
When supporters came out early to promote her waving that banner so proudly, it was the ultimate jaw-dropping-facepalm moment.
Took awhile for someone to color it blue, but it still points to the Right.
No pretense there.
Yet, she insists on identifying as "progressive".
jack_krass
(1,009 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and all the people here too, they have betrayed our party. I have held back saying this, but after last night I cannot any more.
H2O Man
(73,559 posts)Hillary has been a neoconservative for her entire political career. Much like the neoconservative Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- who she replaced in the Senate -- this has allowed her to work very closely with republican administrations.
While almost all of the republican neoconservatives in DC support Clinton, and are strongly opposed to Trump, they have been attempting to force Newt Gingrich on the ticket with Trump, to cover all of their bases.
TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)I would have thought that their constant fawning over Vladimir Putin would clearly out them as an unreliable messenger.
Guess not.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Consortium News link I've seen here today. Disgusting.
arendt
(5,078 posts)How dare you insult a genuine, honest reporter and his life's work.
I regularly look at CU, because they do say things that are completely censored from the corporate media.
I think your disgust is disgusting.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)and those who do, are marginalized as kooks. Pretty good gig. So we always know when the Kill the Messenger onslaught appears, it's probably one of the latter.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....or patriot that Robert Parry is. How dare you. How dare you! Parry founded Consortium News after he was blackballed in the news profession for exposing Iran Contra. He is an American hero and patriot and an exceptional investigative journalist.
Who are you to insult him and his body of work???
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)He dropped the ball on this article by making statement he could not back up. I read the article closely. He writes well, but is missing any factual information in this article.
One example, with a name, would have satisfied me. No such example was given.
How dare I? I dare because I can read and reason. I've never been a professional political or news writer. I'm not in competition with Robert Parry in any way. I'm just a DUer when it comes to politics.
Who am I? I'm MineralMan. I call them as I see them.
arendt
(5,078 posts)You try to come off all factual and unbiased in this post, when your earlier post was a nasty smear job.
Nobody is buying your phony imparitality.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)In any event, the smear the messenger thing is so routine now as to be entertaining.
arendt
(5,078 posts)He is a most valid left wing source. He dug deeply into the Iran-Contra sewer. He is a genuine good guy. He does actual investigative reporting, instead of regurgitating government and corporate talking points.
The fact you don't like what he prints and trot out the completely overused "Putin lover" canard tells me all I need to know.
H2O Man
(73,559 posts)Perry has been used as a reliable source on DU for as long as I've been here.
vintx
(1,748 posts)red baiting is awesome and so is fracking, backing coups (like her close friend Kissinger did) is supported or ignored, etc etc etc ad nauseam.
2banon
(7,321 posts)yes, let's keeping reviving that one.
arendt
(5,078 posts)You know, like "a little bit pink"; "the Pink Lady" (Nixon's smear against his first political victim, Helen Douglas).
They have to work up slowly from "lately of RT" to "he is baby-eating Communist monster".
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)She is completely amoral. I don't know of any moral or ethical standards that she has and abides by.
NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)She will bring back the Neo-Cons (Nuland-Kagan's Ukraine disaster is a forewarning)...and that means War. This time, against an enemy which can actually fight back...
6chars
(3,967 posts)Vote Nader 2000!
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)But along with that, we need proportional representation but our Constitution may not allow that? I don't know about that. Those of us on the true left need to be represented.