Hill Will Still Win

On July 13, 2005 I pegged Hillary Clinton, whom Vox Day has humorously dubbed the Lizard Queen, to be the next president of the United States. It is obviously too soon to say "I told you so", but my commitment to the prediction does not waver, and is indeed hardened in resolve due to the latest news on the, err, Hillary front.

Senator Hillary Clinton is the favourite among Democratic voters to be the party's candidate in the 2008 presidential election, according to a poll.

But only 12 percent of Democrat electors believe the wife of ex-president Bill Clinton can overcome the hostility of US Republicans to take the White House, according to the Financial Dynamics poll for The Hotline political newsletter.

It is quite amusing that, despite the ineptitude of Republicans, the Democrats lead horse is seen as a distant second to whichever thoroughbred the GOP prances out for the meaningless race known as the Presidential election. In any event, this poll demonstrates nothing, save that Dems will jump on the bandwagon as soon as Hillary seems able to pull out with a win. Seeing how the Clintons are powerful as well as undefeated in federal elections, it should come as no surprise that the Lizard Queen, once nominated, slithers into the White House, aided in no small part by a small contingent of disgusted conservatives. If the Republicans do something so stupid as to give the nod to McCain, or, heaven forbid, Giuliani, Hillary should have no trouble trouncing the second-coming of Robert Dole.

The New York senator had support from 38 percent of Democrats, a 24 percentage point lead over nearest rival, Senator John Kerry, the losing Democratic candidate in the 2004 election.

"The depth and breadth of Hillary Clinton's support among Democrats is daunting for other potential Democratic candidates in 2008, especially coupled with her enormous fundraising edge," said The Hotline editor Chuck Todd.

Has it really come to this? The choice is evidently between a spineless and inept Yalie named Kerry, a proven loser with worse grades than the less than savant like Mr. Bush, and a former first lady named Hillary Clinton. There is no way the Democrats could be so brain dead as to run Kerry a second time, even if teaming him with Gore would be worth a good laugh. Unless a dark horse emerges that is A) more electable than Clinton and B) able to raise as much money as the junior senator from New York, Hillary will be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. That prospect is quite unlikely.

There's no reason to be all that afraid. Certainly Hillary will do nothing to prevent the continual expansion of the federal government, but neither has Bush. It makes little difference whether we march at the end of a gun or take the state-sponsored bullet-train. In fact, the slow trickle of liberty is less discernible to the public ear. A hasty seizure of power may wake up the populace before it is too late. If the Lizard Queen's rise to power doesn't motivate the remnant of conservatives to give up on the GOP beast, nothing will.