Monday, April 28, 2008

Hillpocrisy Is Endemic In Hillary's Campaign

Let's talk about Michigan-Florida hypocrisy. We know that top Hillary official Harold Ickes voted as part of the DNC to sanction Michigan for violating the DNC's rules. And now he takes the exact opposition position, now believing that they should be counted (because it helps Hillary now).

We also know Hillary's past position on Michigan and Florida:

I personally did not think it made any difference whether my name was on the ballot. You know, It's clear this election they are having is not going to count for anything.
And this was Hillary later:
Hillary Clinton says the results of Michigan's Democratic presidential primary should count, even if Barack Obama's name did not appear on the ballot.

"That was his choice," she says in an interview with Steve Inskeep. "There was no rule or requirement that he take his name off the ballot.
Notice the hypocritical change of course when it benefits her.

And now we have top Clinton spokesman Terry McAuliffe himself, as DNC chairman, in 2004 stressing the importance of following the DNC's rules:
"I'm going outside the primary window," [Michigan Sen. Carl Levin] told me definitively.

"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," I said. "We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost."

He kept insisting that they were going to move up Michigan on their own, even though if they did that, they would lose half their delegates. By that point Carl and I were leaning toward each other over a table in the middle of the room, shouting and dropping the occasional expletive.

"You won't deny us seats at the convention," he said.

"Carl, take it to the bank," I said. "They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it."

We glared at each other some more, but there was nothing much left to say. I was holding all the cards and Levin knew it.
And Terry now, when Hillary stands to benefit, has a 180 degree change of heart, and suddenly the rules are no longer the rules:
I'm saying they've already voted, let's count the votes. I’m saying that the state parties in those states need to work with the national party and figure out how we count the votes that have already been voted.
Now we have long known that Hillary is a shameless hypocrite, to the point I actually had to create a new term to describe the amazing depths of her hypocrisy. But it seems like everyone around her has come down with a bad case of the hillpocrisy as well. Bill is a total hypocrite. All her top supporters seem to be total hypocrites. It seems that hypocrisy is extremely contagious. At this point I'm getting concerned. The next time I hear someone from her inner circle being a complete hypocrite I'm putting in a call to the CDC, because we may have an epidemic on our hands. I think the sooner Hillary drops out and we can put her in quarantine the better for the Party and the country.

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