HILLARY’S CONVERSION TO RIGHT DOESN’T WORK

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Senator Hillary Clinton has become the poster girl for converting Dems to moderate and right. Won’t work.

Hillary tells Dems at recent conclaves that they have to give up on the left and far-left in order to court the moderate and right. Does she not know that the moderate and right are listening in or does she think those speeches are for the insiders only?

When the moderate and right hear Hillary speak on behalf of their sides, they laugh their sides silly. It’s as if listening to Billy Graham meeting with evangelicals to convert them to accept practicing homosexuality as a divine blessing. It just doesn’t work.

Once convictions are cemented in place, that’s where they stay. People live and die for those kinds of convictions.

Hillary has been for too long a life on the left and far left conviction to make a turn-about convincing. It just isn’t so. Further, with the ’08 elections ahead, it does not take high school grad mentality to reason the motive behind Hillary's courting the moderate and right.

All of this Hillary speech making simply highlights all the more what Republicans have known all along, that is, that Dems are quite clueless. In other words, they are stupid on various frequencies, most of the latter being major ones.

I recall Jay Leno making a joke recently in which the nub of it was asking when Democrats would start producing something. Well, I concluded, now their dumbness is even making the joke circuit. Fine with me.

Hillary is now feeding into that joke circuit with her trying to appear Christian-spiritual, morally based, and for the family, tradition, biblical ethics and that sort of milieu where the righteous have been dwelling for too long a time to be fooled by an infiltrator.

Hillary of course is just that — an infiltrator. But the doors were closed to her conversion experience a long, long time ago. Those inside the moderate and right room are too aware of their conviction base to permit a charlatan to come through the entrance.

Therefore, Hillary, understand that your speech making round-about may make a few headlines but it just won’t win you a national election.

No way.