Hillary Clinton's 'Low Road to Victory' - New York Times

Below is an excerpt from the The Low Road to Victory - article

"The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election."


I think the "low road" characterization is exactly right. It echoes a characterization Hunter S Thompson used for Nixon, which I referenced in this post. As ever, the Hillary mantra appears to remain 'personal victory no matter the cost'.

What boggles and saddens me is that her supporters believe they will benefit somehow if she does win through these means. A Hillary presidential victory would ensure that congressional gridlock achieved new lows and the country's possible path toward a more progressive and sane future will be further retarded after what has already been a lousy 8 years under Bush.

I simply don't understand how Hillary's supporters don't see this. They take myopic ignorance to new levels. It would be fascinating to watch people so avidly rooting for what will be their own demise if the stakes weren't so high for the rest of us. But, like the H.L. Mencken quote says, 'no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public', and therefore pathological weasels can continue to fleece a moronic electorate for their own personal gains.