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The Hillary Democrats
Pat Buchanan 5/9/2008
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"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on" than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY.

She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," said Hillary. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."

The Democratic Party can't win with just "eggheads and African-Americans," Paul Begala added helpfully.

What Hillary and Begala are saying is politically incorrect, but it is also patently true. Hillary was describing what may now fairly be called the Hillary Democrats — a.k.a. the ex-Reagan Democrats who did not vote for Obama and may defect to John McCain.

If Obama can win over these voters who gave Hillary big victories in Ohio and Pennsylvania, he is the 44th president. If McCain does not win a goodly slice of these Democrats, he will lose.

Who, exactly, are the Hillocrats, half of whom said in the exit polls from North Carolina and Indiana that, if she loses the nomination,
they will stay home or vote for McCain?

They are white, working- and middle-class, Catholic, small-town, rural, unionized, middle-age and seniors, and surviving on less than $50,000 a year. They are the people most belittled by the condescending commentary of Barack behind closed doors out at Sodom on the Bay.

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, (where) the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. ... And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

In 40 years, two Democrats have won the presidency, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and both did so only after connecting with these folks.

People forget. In 1976, Carter ran as a Naval Academy grad and nuclear engineer, a born-again Baptist and peanut farmer from Plains, Ga., who, in Philadelphia, talked about preserving the "ethnic purity" of the neighborhoods. Clinton first ran as a death-penalty Democrat.

It was Ronald Reagan who cemented the GOP hold of these Nixon-Agnew New Majority Democrats, who are now headed back home.

And it was George H.W.
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Attack of the Fifty Foot Hillary
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Posted By: John  on Saturday, May 10, 2008

Pat, you are just hoping for the VP slot with John. It could happen...he is learning to kiss ass really well.

Posted By: RJ  on Saturday, May 10, 2008

The fact is racial prejudice is still alive and well among the "blue collar".  Here in rural Missouri, I am shocked how many will say flat out, "I'll never vote for a N-----".  They are totally discouraged with GW and the Republican Party, but will stay home if their choice is a black man or a third GW term.

That is the issue the entire country is dancing around.

Posted By: Dale Netherton  on Sunday, May 11, 2008

Funny that Hillary can recognize a pattern regarding voter's behavior but hasn't a clue when a pattern of defeat whacks her in the derriere.