Democrats Begin to Question Hillary Candidacy

It is always painful to watch a candidate for public office attempt to appear to be unflappable while in the midst of being made highly uncomfortable. To most observers Hillary Clinton was feeling the heat in last night's Democratic debate although she attempted to appear unfazed.

Hillary took the heat from several different sources on several different issues, not the least of which was moderator Tim Russert, who hammered the candidate with questions about pertinent material that she and her husband ordered sealed until the year 2012.

The answer that Hillary attempted to slip by Russert, her rivals, and observers, was that the matter was 'out of her hands.'

No, Ma'am. The matter is entirely in your hands since it was you and your husband who ordered the documents sealed until 2012 to begin with.

In addition, Clinton took the heat from her Democratic Party rivals who are seizing upon her votes to give President Bush the authority to use the military against Iraq and Iran back in 2002.

Their castigations against Hillary seem rather disingenuous, given that a majority of Democrats voted with Republicans to allow the President to act with the power of the U.S. military.

A historical perspective is key here. Democrats were practically in 100% complete agreement that Saddam was a direct threat to the U.S. as long as one of their own, Bill Clinton, was in office. But once he was gone, suddenly it became politically expedient to appear to be 'against the war,' although most of them voted for it.

In this case, Hillary was right in voting for it. Early in the Bush administration the facts of the dangers of Iraq, Iran, and Syria were still fresh in her mind from her husband's administration. The thing she should be castigated about is her attempt to distance herself from her vote.

Her penchant for flip-flopping on a variety of issues is becoming all the clearer.

As one political pundit observed after the debate, once a candidate is labeled as a flip-flopper, their candidacy is in deep trouble.

Hillary's problems are compounded by the fact that not only has she flip-flopped on a variety of issues over a period of months and years, but she did so during Tuesday night's debate in answering one single question.

As B. Hussein Obama observed after Hillary had answered that question, 'I can't tell what her answer is...it seems she gave two opposite answers to the same question.'

Clearly the Democrats are getting nervous about Hillary the closer we get to the actual campaign of 2008. Her negatives in the polls are high, 50% of American women state that they would not vote for her in ANY circumstance, and scandal continues to loom heavily over her campaign.

But who would assume the role of front-runner? All of the rest of the Democratic candidates are a joke and so far outside the mainstream of America that they are actually frightening. This includes Billy Richardson, who was a crony of Bill Clinton and whose political ideology is nearly the same as the Clintons.

Further, the hero of many extremists, Algore, is no savior waiting in the wings. Increasingly he is viewed as a clown who can't even get his facts straight on climatology.