"There is no way she is not going to win that nomination"

"Little more than a rather petty parsing of words," writes Chris Weinkopf in a rousing L.A. Daily News analysis [via Balloon Juice via InstaPundit] of the recent unpleasantness at the Old Boys and Girls Club:

This wasn't about subjecting a would-be Cabinet secretary to the customary scrutiny. It was about Boxer's attempt to become the public face of the Democratic Party's moonbat wing, an effort that began in earnest a week earlier, when she was the only U.S. senator to vote against certifying President Bush's Electoral College victory.

This was no banner day for the Democrats. At a time when cooler heads in the party are trying to lay claim to moderation and move away from the Michael Moore crowd, the biggest Moore groupie in all the Senate was stealing the show and the publicity. And it would be hard to dismiss Boxer as the party's black sheep when the very man the party tried to put in the White House just two months earlier was there bah-ing beside her.

We beg to differ. It sounds to us like Babs -- wittingly or not -- is stealth campaigning for Hillary, setting the stage for the junior Senator from New York to step into the spotlight in a show-stopping song of love and compassion. Hillary will be the uniter, not divider that the lying, Hitlerish Bush pretended to be.

Bush lied ™

Bush = Hitler ™

Only Monday night [via Lucianne], the Divine Miss C. "drew gasps from an audience of hundreds of pro-abortion activists" with an all-things-to-all-people speech to her base:

Senator Hillary Clinton, seen by many Democrats as their best bet to recapture the White House in 2008, has made an extraordinary appeal for support from Right-wing religious groups.

The wife of the former president Bill Clinton said she sought common ground on abortion and described herself as a "praying person".

Her words represented an attempt to repackage her image for American conservatives, many of whom despise what they see as her radical feminist views. During a speech on Monday night to mark the anniversary of Roe v Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalised abortion, Mrs Clinton drew gasps from an audience of hundreds of pro-abortion activists.

Doesn't she know that Republicans aren't into repackaging of images? We prefer leaders like GW, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who tell it like it is.  But Hillary presumably lives in a Pauline Kael bubble, where no one she knows voted for Bush.  Be that as it may, Dick Morris -- who is usually wrong about election results but knows a lot about a lot -- thinks "There is no way she is not going to win that nomination."

Comments

[Jack]

I can't believe I'm about to do this, but I'm going to defend HRC here for a second.

The "pro-life" side of the abortion divide has a schism that has been papered over for political purposes. That schism is between who are against surgical abortions and believe them to be "murder," and those who will not brook any interference with conception (the anti-condom crowd in its purest sense, or the people who are against "morning after" contraception because they believe that the divine act occurs when sperm meets egg). The ugly truth is that it may be possible to reduce surgical abortions a lot with much better education and much freer deployment of contraceptives. Many European countries with much more liberal sex ed and more convenient contraceptives have lower rates of surgical abortion than the United States. This is a truth that the pro-life side is scarcely willing to breathe.

I therefore think that while HRC's point is smart politically in that she is seeking to divide the anti-abortion crowd, it is also a legitimate position to take. Indeed, it is very close to my point of view. Died in the wool Hillary-haters will say that she is cynical (did you just do that?:)), but I think this is one position she is adopting sincerely.

I hope you don't hate me now!

[Sissy Willis]

I could never hate you -- your analyses are always thought provoking -- but I do think you're naive to think Hillary is adopting a position -- ANY position -- sincerely. :) Like a broken clock, she may be correct twice a day.