The best thing that can happen for the Republican Party would be the election of Hillary as next president. The Republicans are fractured into so many different groups. The neo-cons, the religious right, the fiscally conservative social liberals, the anti-war Ron Paul supporters.
Over the past several decades, what was arguably the best thing for the Republican Party was what was arguably the worst thing for America: The election of Jimmy Carter in 1976. Double-digit inflation, the highest prime rate (21%) in the history of the United States, The economy fell into a recession, which was the sharpest one-quarter drop in national output on record. Carter cut $6 Billion out of the military budget, failed terribly in foreign policy (as in the Iranian hostage crisis, which Gary Sick, Carter's principal White House aide for Iranian affairs, has called "the most devastating diplomatic incident in modern U.S. history.”)
If there is one thing that we can pretty much be sure of, it’s that Hillary’s intentions of raising taxes and raising spending will lead to recession and inflation. Her aim of bending America into the socialized state that Sarkozy is trying to break free from will lead to disaster.
While she gets a “no confidence” vote from most Americans on her positions regarding protecting the country from terrorism, she is getting support from terrorists around the world. “I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq,” said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian terror group ( Read the full article http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmYwYTFhZDU1MjllMjUwODg3MDYxMTgzNDk2OTNjODM=).
And even the old witch herself admits that a terrorist attack in the US would help the GOP (article HERE http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/24/clinton.terrorism/index.html).
So assuming that she is elected, we can also assume that this country would begin a swift, downward spiral into a Carter-like abyss of economic despair, a general feeling of malaise and impotence against our enemies, and a new era of “crisis of confidence” as Jimmy himself called the phenomenon of psychological pain that the nation endured during his presidency.
Perhaps then we would hit rock bottom, giving us some solid ground to push up against, uniting the right into a force that once again would boost a rise to the top as Reagan’s optimism, strength, and sound economic policies did for us.
In the meantime, let’s hope that she’s not fiddling with any of Bills cigars when she’s alone in a room with Huma Abedin. God only knows what buttons she’d push to avoid the headlines.
