Thoughts on New Hampshire
12 January 2008After the New Hampshire primary I got to thinking. Everyone has their theories about what happened. McCain much bigger than expected and Hillary won when Obama was supposed to win big. What happened?
I think it was a combination of two things. Remember in 2000, many Democrats crossed over to Republican primaries to vote for John McCain. After all, he’s the Republican most palatable to Democrats (which ought to say something to Republicans, particularly conservatives). I believe that a lot of Democrats who supported Obama were convinced Obama had it wrapped up so they crossed over to the Republican primary to vote for McCain. That explains both unexpected results.
But I think there was something else in play and that was Hillary’s little crying spell. There was plenty of speculation on the right that her little emotional outburst would hurt her. I mean, who wants a chief executive and commander in chief who is ruled by emotions? Apparently the answer to that question is many Democrats. Hillary’s emotional outburst brought a lot of Democrats over to her side which, to me, is just frightening.
Can anyone imagine Margaret Thatcher having a similar emotional outburst in public? I certainly can’t and had she ever done so her political career would have been over. Would we want an emotional outburst in the middle of delicate negotiations with a hostile foreign government when things weren’t going well? Would that be beneficial to us?
Some might say that Hillary wouldn’t do that in such a situation? Perhaps but if true that means that she reserves such outbursts for when they are beneficial. The implication is she judged that an emotional outburst was called for in that case.
I remember an episode of Star Trek where Captain Kirk accused Mr. Spock of having an emotional outburst. Spock’s response was that his actions had been logical. The situation was clearly desperate so desperate action was called for. Either that applies to Mrs. Clinton which makes it pure manipulation or she can’t be trusted to remain cool under pressure. Either case is unpleasant.
But in the end the really frightening part is that Democrats want that sort of thing in their president.
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