Crone Wars
Because all the smart, hip, young “progressives” were enthralled by Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party elite were able to convince themselves that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had no real supporters — or, at least, no supporters with the kind of passionate intensity that Obama’s acolytes could bring to the campaign.
Wrong. Hillary’s most ardent supporters tend to be women of a certain age, but their intensity shouldn’t be underestimated just because they belong to a post-menopausal demographic.
As they’ve watched their girl get shoved aside by the brash Obama and his youthful cohorts, Hillary’s army of liberal crones has become increasingly embittered toward the Democrats.
That bitterness erupted like a volcano of venom Saturday, when some of Hillary’s supporters were manhandled out of the ballroom at the Washington, D.C., hotel where the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) was meeting.
“And the Democrats are throwing the election away! For what? An inadequate black male who would not have been running had it not been a white woman that was running for president! And I’m not going to shut my mouth anymore!…I’m no second-class citizen — and g—damn the Democrats!”
Whether she’ll be able to salve her supporters’ bruised feelings is less certain, and perhaps irrelevant. By Nov. 4, the battle lines may be drawn so starkly, with such powerful appeals to partisan loyalty, that even Hillary’s most bitter backers will feel obliged to vote for Obama.
Or maybe not. As Harriet Christian shouted at the TV cameras Saturday, “Our Democratic Party threw us down the tubes!…And they think we won’t turn and vote for McCain? Well, I got news for all of you: McCain will be the next president of the United States!”