“the party of the past”

While there are a lot of legitimate criticisms that can be leveled at the Republican Party, this one had me chuckling:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Democrat is not likely to win this state in the 2016 presidential election, not even one with the last name Clinton.

But on Saturday, Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Arkansas where she and her husband began their political ascent, delivering a fiery critique of Republican policies and a pep talk of sorts for Democrats who suffered dramatic losses in the midterm elections.

Mrs. Clinton lambasted Republicans as “the party of the past” and tried to portray the extreme comments of one candidate, the businessman and reality TV star, Donald Trump, as representative of the entire party.

OK, I can see a young person pointing out that because the GOP is mired by social conservatism it is hopelessly behind the times, but Hillary Clinton? 

The past is all she has.

Perhaps she should consider new speech writers.

Because, if she’s not more careful, the party (or parties) of the past might consider Bernie Sanders.


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15 responses to ““the party of the past””

  1. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    Mrs. Clinton has the democrat minority vote locked up in the primary and general. And to ask a minority to vote republican is like asking a jew to vote for hitler! Mrs Clinton is better then any republiscum and we know what happens if one slithers in. So why should I vote for a neo nazi instead of a democrat because that is what your asking minorities to do.

  2. chocolatier Avatar
    chocolatier

    If the GOP picks Jeb Bush, he will be in a poor position to call Hillary a ‘candidate of the past’, just like Mitt Romney, the creator of Romenycare, was unable to convince voters that he would repeal Obamacare.

  3. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Socialism has been the wave of the future for 150 years.

  4. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    Captain, are you implying Bernie Sanders is a neo-nazi? We don’t expect minorities who have swallowed the propaganda to vote Republican, of course. But Sanders isn’t Republican.

  5. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    I think the appeal of Bernie Sanders to the far-left base is that he’s a real socialist, not a crypto one like Hilarity!

    Socialism has existed as a political movement since at least 1848. Yet here’s a couple of doddering old people still selling socialism as if it’s the choice of a new generation, it’s hip to the jive, the cat’s pajamas and bee’s knees, a zoot suit with a reet pleat, 23 skidoo whack-a-doo-dah folderol day, optimus quod perspicuus.

  6. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    testing

  7. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    The appeal of Sanders is he’s a real, acknowledged socialist, instead of a crypto,kinda-sorta, is she or isn’t she socialist like Hillarity!

    Meanwhile, socialism has been a political movement since at least 1848, and here we have the spectacle of two doddering decrepit old people telling us that socialism is the wave of the future, the choice of a new generation, the now a-go-go, ultra groovy nifty keen whoopdy doo latest thing.

  8. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    What’s eating my comments?

  9. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    I support bernie but he has been to light on minority issues.Economics doesn’t stop a cop from shooting a middle class black man. He is making up for it now but to little to late. In the general election I will hold my nose and vote for clinton. I would have voted for hindenberg over hitler.

  10. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    Captain, You honestly think HILLARY is better on racial issues? I suggest you do some more investigating there.

  11. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    P.S. Economics doesn’t keep a cop from shooting a middle class white man either. Or a little poor old white lady. It’s not a racist thing – it’s a cops have too damned much power thing.

  12. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Didn’t the American Conservative Union rate Bernie Sanders higher than Al Gore? Like 23% to Gore’s 7%?

    Let’s see if this one posts.

  13. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    It posted – or I read it through some telepathic power?

    Either way, I have no doubt that the ACU would rate Al Gore lower than Sanders. Sanders sometimes (albeit rarely) makes sense.

  14. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    There’s two more comments about Bernie and Hillarity! that disappeared into the ether.

  15. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    test 2
    see if this posts

    socialism is the choice of a new generation

    since 1848