Republican Bigs Consider Donating to Hillary Clinton

9/2/2014 at 10:45:06

America's Aristocrats Declare Victory Against the Public; They War Now Mainly Against One-Another

Eric Zuesse

On August 31st, the Republican political site Politico bannered "Wall Street Republicans' Dark Secret: Hillary Clinton 2016," and Ben White and Maggie Haberman delivered a blockbuster report about the big-money Republican donors they had talked to, who confided (not for specific attribution, though) that they might finance Hillary Clinton to become President, if Jeb Bush announces after November's mid-terms that he won't run for the Republican Presidential nomination. Ms. Clinton is so appealing to Republican aristocrats, many of them will back her if Republicans won't nominate Bush.

Of course, virtually all Democratic aristocrats are already pouring money into the place-holding fundraising campaign for Clinton's expected entrance into the Democratic Presidential contest.

This means that virtually the entire aristocracy will be flooding Clinton's Presidential war-chest, unless Jeb Bush seeks the Republican nomination.

Where, then, does this leave the public? Obviously (barring some unimagined scenario of a progressive running against Hillary for the nomination and beating her), both of the two people who will be the major-Party nominees are going to be running in order to go farther than NAFTA, and farther than deregulating Wall Street, and farther than re-invading Iraq, and farther than financing Ukraine' s ethnic-cleansing operation ousting the ethnic Russians out of that country's southeastern region, and farther than threatening to bomb Assad's forces in Syria, and farther than arm-twisting the EU to weaken their anti-global-warming regulations so that the EU can import the Koch brothers' dirty oil from Alberta Canada's tar sands -- in other words: farther than Obama has gone, or is yet aiming to go.

Does it make much of a difference, then, which of those two people, Clinton or Bush, will be doing these things for America's aristocrats? Not enough to make Republican aristocrats back the other Republican contenders instead of Hillary if Bush doesn't enter the race. They'll then be joining with the Democratic aristocracy, who have already thrown in their lot behind her. Aristocrats don't much care whether its name is "Clinton," or is instead "Bush." Either one would make an acceptable king (or queen) for them during the following eight years.

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