For what seems like almost years now, Republican candidates have been gearing up, trying to prove to their base that they are the best person to go head to head against Hillary Clinton. Forget health care and jobs, the important question is who can vilify Hillary most effectively.
On the left, Hillary plays into it by suggesting she is the best candidate to go up against the GOP attack machine and the daunting VRWC. In what seems like these last desperate moments of her campaign (we'll reassess after the NH primary tomorrow) she is telling voters that she is the most battle-tested candidate out there. Of course it doesn't seem to be working, and a new dynamic is forming. The Republicans are grasping at straws on how to go after him and haven't found anything good yet, so what do you suppose the GOP will do?
From Pandagon:
Back home from Colorado and still reeling from Glenn Greenwald’s post where he demonstrated that conservative writers are leaping into race-baiting motion at the sign of Barack Obama’s awe-inspiring performance in Iowa, with claims that the youthful, multi-racial supporters of Obama’s will riot if he doesn’t win, an assertion that requires the audience to believe that young liberals who go knocking on doors to garner support for wonkish lawyers are just one bad day away from looting and raping. If you haven’t (I’m sure you have, if you’re a thinking sort) read Glenn’s post, just go do it. He argues in his unnervingly perfect way that this racist assertion is not only crazy, but another form of wingnut projection, because they’re the ones who have cultivated gangs of fascist thugs ready to use violence to swing an election.
Thats right, they'll use fear and as heap it on a' plenty. If they can't hate on Hillary, why not play on racial themes. If God, Gays and Guns won't work, do not be surprised if we see this thing get as ugly as the days of the Civil Rights era and even earlier than that. Whatever it takes to win, the Republicans will stoop as low as they think they have to go.
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