What Hillary will do
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
The suspense is over.
The question of whether or not Hillary Rodham Clinton would run for president in election year 2016 has been answered.
She’s going for it, by golly!
The announcement (what day was it?) caused almost as much excitement as the prospect of a beefsteak on a cowboy roundup. The stir was subdued because everyone already knew she was running, including her.
Clinton had to get in a little early because Republicans have been lining up regularly, with more likely to come. Hillary needed to get her designer shoe on the line too, before other Democrat hopefuls have the audacity to declare rather than genuflect.
The question is what will Hillary do in these preliminary months when voters are more interested in hotdogs at the lake than they are in politicians and controversy.
It is difficult to prognosticate this soon on where the issues will take any of the candidates, but some things are obvious and predictable based on past behavior and rhetoric.
In these early days, Clinton has decided to campaign in settings more personal than will be profitable when the race becomes more heated. She wants to meet with small audiences, press the flesh, and get a lot of coverage from media large and small.
She hopes to come across as one of the people, not the political elitist that she really is.
A golden opportunity to get to know the real Hillary is the tactic, political in its origin, unoriginal in its execution.
She is also gathering demographic data while tooling around in her absurd little van, as if, somehow, she is a soccer mom on the loose.
Of course image polishing will be practiced by all in the hunt. Just understand Clinton is doing what Bill did successfully in ’92.
Hillary’s hubby did the photo ops at McDonald’s and the jogging routine until it was no longer needed. He was projected as a regular guy.
Hillary is doing the same thing, but the notion that she longs to be part of working America is a laughable part of Leftist political theater.
All Clinton wants is power.
If she could get that without rubbing elbows with commoners, then she would cheerfully not do it. But she needs those votes to feed her political habit.
Keep in mind, too, that Hillary isn’t out in Middle Class Land because of some higher calling, but because she has been advised to do so by her cadre of political experts.
Someone has suggested she drop the cold indifference that is her actual persona and embrace the warmer presence of a new grandma steeped in concern for working folks; that is, those who never learned how to make millions by speechifying.
Hillary has announced already that she wants to be a champion for the middle class.
From that, we’re supposed to assume that she wants to strengthen the middle class via helpful policies regarding salaries and wages, jobs, tax status, and all those other things so promised every election cycle.
However, there is a big difference between saying one is a champion for the underdog and actually being one.
Listen for specifics. Don’t be surprised if you never hear any.
Hillary Clinton isn’t a champion for the middle class; she is an advocate for one economic class, as is Barack Obama.
This is called socialism.
Hillary will present herself as an “I feel your pain” centrist, but, again, that is not who she is.
The middle-of-the-road stance is designed to broaden her appeal to independents while blunting the negativity of those on the Right.
In other words, she, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, will pretend to be something she is not.
That is misleading and dishonest, of course, but American politics has sunk to such a low it has become acceptable to openly play citizens. The role of politicians now isn’t to educate low-information voters too busy earning a living to become politically astute, but to exploit them for personal and party gain.
Just know Hillary Rodham Clinton is really a Saul Alinsky disciple who will say whatever is necessary to win the job she covets.
Know her devotion is not to America, or the middle class, or to anyone who happens to embrace a political philosophy different from her own.
Her fidelity is to Leftist ideology and to the progressive transformation of individual rights into the mud wrought by a socialist state.
Clinton has a plan for America, but you will hear little to nothing about the specifics of it. That’s what worked for her former boss and for her husband. Why rock a steady boat?
That’s why it’s better to know who Hillary Clinton is now than to find out after November 2016.
Larry W. Anderson’s novel, I, Eugenius, is available on Amazon.
