Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe columnist, asks “Who can lead the Democrats?”
(And gets right to the point.)
ANYONE BUT Hillary. The political year ends with Democratic Party leaders searching for a new moral compass—and concluding, foolishly, that morality is only a focus group away. Blaming the November loss on issues like abortion, they want to be for and against it. With finesse and spin, Democrats long to believe red-state voters will return to them in 2008—even though it didn’t work in 2004.
It definitely won’t work if Hillary Clinton is leading the charge.Democrats lost the values debate, first to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, before losing ground to abortion and gay marriage. It explains why George W. Bush was able to sidle into the White House in the first place. Hillary Clinton is part of the party’s problem, not part of the solution. Whether you view her as Bill Clinton’s victim or co-conspirator, she helped take the country down the path of half-truths and bold lies, from “I didn’t inhale” to “I did not have sexual relations with that woman . . . “
The bumper stickers are correct. No one died when Clinton lied. But something was extinguished: respect for the office, the man, his wife, and the truth. It is difficult to imagine red state voters separating Hillary Clinton from the personal immorality of the Clinton presidency. Besides, how can she extricate herself from baby boomer feminists who will fight hard to keep the party’s prochoice commitments, particularly as they apply to Supreme Court nominees?
For everyone who looks at Hillary Clinton and sees a fund-raising superstar, remember: Money was not the deciding factor in Bush’s reelection. Terry McAuliffe, the outgoing party chairman, said recently that Democrats out-raised Republicans, $389 million to $385 million.
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