we’ve posted elsewhere how skippy’s wife, registered democrat, good liberal with a liberal voting record, has said on several occasions she would rather vote for geena davis than hillary clinton for president.
but today, it gets even worse (for hill, that is).
we explain after the jump:
mrs. skippy was talking about seeing maureen dowd on some c-span book show earlier this morning. (tho mrs. skippy finds maureen funnier than we do, we agreed there is less to ms. dowd than meets the eye).
mrs. skippy said maureen mentioned the tickets in 2008 will be hillary/obama versus condaleeza rice/mccain.
we waxed eloquently on how rice would not possibly be the choice for the repubbbs, as her track record as sec. of state is abysmal by any sane standards. we opined that we would favor assassination of the head of whichever of those hypothetical tickets won the election.
but here’s where it get sticky for hill. now, remember, mrs. skippy has been a registered democrat all her life. she has always voted the party line, and worked for good, democratic causes.
but she said this morning, if those hypothetical tickets were to come to pass, she would rather vote for rice than hillary clinton.
we were shocked. but not surprised. mrs. skippy’s distaste for hillary would overcome her allegiance to the party, should condi rice be the repubbb nominee.
mrs. skippy sees condi as a woman of accomplishment and experience, and just cannot stand hill.
now, please rest assured, we do not write this diary to add to the “we hate hillary” club oevuere. there’s plenty of that around. and our opinions of hillary are not the point here.
rather, we offer this as a cautionary tale to those who support hillary.
we imagine mrs. skippy to represent the regular democratic voter. she does not concern herself with inside the beltway mechinations, and indeed, often (but lovingly…usually) accuses us of spending far too much time blogging and not enough time pay attention to her.
she is well-read, and intelligent, but, after all, has a pretty full life and cannot (or chooses not to) invest herself in all the minutae of politics and politicos. ergo, she is pretty much a normal, everyday, common american democrat.
and if she hates hillary enough to vote for condi rice in an imaginary face-off, what does that say for hill’s chances with all of america?
of course, mrs. skippy could be an outlier (she is, in more ways than one). but we hold her to be the canary in the coal mine, the finger that takes the temperature of what regular outside-the-beltway democrats are thinking.
we all know that those in washington are the last to know what the rest of the country is doing. is the push for hillary in 2008 just another (self-defeating) example of this?
