Hillary’s
“George Wallace Strategy”
Politico
reports that, “in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, Clinton won a stunning seven in ten white voters
age 60 and older.” The reason for this is obvious once you know
where to look. Hillary Clinton is pursuing the same strategies as the
segregationist George Wallace did in order to convince older white Democrats
to vote for her.
Those of
Barack Obama’s generation or younger have few memories of George
Wallace and have trouble relating to his racist message. Older voters,
however, are well aware of Wallace’s impact and many were sympathetic
at the time to his message. Hillary Clinton is craftily playing off this
hidden communication and bond.
The Sixties
are ancient history to most of the readers of this blog, but they are
alive and well in the Clinton campaign. In 1968 Hillary Clinton was 21
years old and openly working for the Republican Party. She had a good
view of George Wallace’s racially motivated run for the presidency.
She learned from Wallace how to demagogue race while appearing to be the
white knight coming to the rescue.
Like Wallace,
HRC vigorously denies any racist intent, while slyly exploiting the politics
of racial division. We all know how her surrogates have tried to make
Obama unelectable; Penn tried to paint Obama as a cocaine dealer, Clinton
claimed the race card, Carville “branded” Richardson, Rendell
claimed Pennsylvanians were a bunch of racists who’ll never vote
for a black man.
But HRC
has done herself no honors either; she refuses to acknowledge that Obama
is capable of being president, she’s resorted to invoking Farrakahn
and Wright at every opportunity, and she leaves the door open on whether
he’s a Christian or not. That’s the short list.
Dan T. Carter
in his biography of George Wallace, “The Politics of Rage,”
writes how Wallace was able to cloak his racist message in a language
that ordinary people could get behind;
In speech
after speech Wallace knit together the strands of racism with those
of a deeply rooted moral xenophobic “plain folk” cultural
outlook which equated social change with moral corruption. The creators
of public policy– the elite– were out of touch with hardworking
taxpayers who footed the bill for their visionary social engineering
at home and weak-minded defense of American interests. page 345
It’s
almost like you’re reading HRC’s playbook, isn’t it? Carter
describes Wallace’s verbal attacks that drew such large crowds and
were so effective at the time;
“…his
snarling attacks against hippies, civil rights “agitators”,
welfare recipients, atheists, beatniks, anti-war protesters, Communists,
street toughs…” exhilirated his audience. page 346
Substitute
the Weather Underground, Reverend Wright, Moveon.org, Louis Farrakhan,
and Judas in place of George Wallace’s epithets and its easy to see
the Clinton strategy.
Carter reveals
a little known fact about George Wallace. He knew he wasn’t going
to win. He was only running because he was, “damn sure going to try
to keep (Hubert) Humphrey from being elected.” page 358
One last
quote that I found interesting;
The American
“sickness” had been localized in the person of George Wallace,
the “ablest demagogue of our time, with a bugle voice of venom
and a gut knowledge of the prejudices of the low-income class. page
367
Since HRC
is running on her husband’s legacy and he’s helping her shovel
the manure, I couldn’t help but notice that this description fits
Bill to a tee.
It’s
hard to ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton is employing the most racist
tactics employed by anyone in the modern Democratic Party. If Obama is
going to defeat these despicable political acts, he is going to have to
understand George Wallace.
Aaron
Dahl
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