GOP Nominee
Former Candidates
Irrelevant Feud or Determinative Uncivil War?
[Originally posted at The HinzSight Report]
The battle between The Clintons and The Obamas for the Democratic Party presidential nomination rages this week on the battlegrounds of the famous feud between The Hatfields (mostly of West Virginia) and McCoys (mostly of Kentucky).
The latter raged for 13 years from 1878-1891 and affected the course of American history not a whit. No one remembers who won it.
The former, now in its fifth month, finds the junior senator from Illinois and the world’s angriest millionaire spouse: ahead in delegates, declared the nominee by a fawning liberal press after conquering North Carolina, but without the required number of delegates to actually be what the press reports him to be.
Clinton supporter Paul “The Forehead” Begala describes Obama’s coalition of supporters as eggheads and African-Americans, whose numbers in the general election would allow only for a symbolic “Dukakis” strategy campaign that could only hope to carry up to ten states and certain defeat at the hands of Republican nominee, John “The Maverick” McCain.
But the real mavericks of 2008 will be the so-called Democratic “super delegates” who hold the balance of power to put either Obama or the junior senator for New York over the top to wrest the mantle last shorn by John Kerry (who fought in Vietnam).
History shows that neither of the bitter warring factions in the family feud were historical mavericks, but their home states were critical in a bit more consequential feud known as The War between the States less than a score earlier.
West Virginia exists due to backcountry mavericks that refused to follow (East) Virginia’s decision to march behind South Carolina’s lead in seceding from the Union. Kentucky also refused to secede.
History records both chose the winning side in that “Civil” war.
Bill Clinton has been leading the uncivil war in this week’s battlegrounds, hoping to convince the supermen and women that Obama is November kryptonite for the donkey.
NO DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT SINCE 1916 WITHOUT WINNING THE MOUNTAIN STATE!
One poll shows his wife with a 40 point lead over the man with the, 20-years in a hate America, black separatist church, pew-parked butt who thinks blue collar whites vote for Hillary due to bitterness over the economy that causes them to “cling” to “antipathy to people that aren’t like them.” (God and guns got more publicity. Gamecock demands equal time for the bigotry charge.)
Most people read Barack’s above “bitterness” comment as deeming people “not like them” to refer to skin color. But let’s give the “Uniter” the benefit of the doubt and consider that he may have meant people that aren’t pompous elitists that indulge bigot pastors and unrepentant terrorist pals.
Feels Right.
Battles in Kentucky and West Virginia were crucial from 1860-1865. Whether this week’s 2008 battles will be looked back upon as the last gasps of an irrelevant feud or the decisive moment of the uncivil war could depend on Hillary’s margin of victory. A huge rout could convince enough delegates that Obama cannot win over the voters he described as bigoted, gun-toting clingers to God in their bitterness.
History makes the Hatfields and McCoys footnotes in American lore, but for the participants it was life and death.
It is likely that either The Clintons or The Obamas will not survive the wounds inflicted on this blood-stained soil to do battle in November, and it is also quite possible that even the survivor will lose too much blood to get control of the nukes in January.
Fighters from the backwoods country helped General Andrew Jackson win the 1814 Battle of New Orleans, and thus preserve the Revolution from a revenge seeking British Empire that had already sacked this nation’s capitol, just as warriors from these border states enabled the first Republican President to preserve the Union in 1865. Old Hickory, the hero of the War of the 1812, went on to be the first Democrat President of the World’s oldest political party.
Ironically, many republicans, and especially conservatives, are looking to the wife of the first Arkansan president, Mountaineers and Blue Grass trodders to save the Union again from an Obamanation!
[Inspired by Dali Llama]
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Sad thing is that JMac can still lose WV by staying on an anti-coal rampage like the one he’s furtively launching this week.
Boo, hiss, John! Carbon emissions targets are a very, very bad idea, destined only to drive certain industries out of the country for good! A carbon tax might work without castrating the economy, but the alarmist superhero “Cap’n Trade” will only put the US at a comparative disadvantage to other nations.
This anthropogenic global warming nonsense is leading otherwise well-educated western nations to commit suicide for fear of mortality. Let go of the noose and step of the chair.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I hear ya markg
May 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am
If Senator McCain would just talk and act like a Republican on energy issues, we would have West Virginia in the bag against either Clinton or Obama
May 12th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I find it amusing that the author of this piece seems to even give Clinton the benefit of the doubt that WV matters. Obama could lose 90%-10% and it ain’t going to matter. There are just not enough delegates in WV, or KY for that matter, to make any difference at this point of the game.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
#4 may be right and amused!