Hillary's McGovern Moment
By Hugh Hewitt
Out of nowhere this week Hillary Clinton proposed giving every American child a $5,000 bond at birth. The proposal went over like a lead balloon even with Democrats, and left economists and political analysts scratching their collective heads.
It reminded many of George McGovern's 1972 widely ridiculed scheme to provide a social dividend of $1,000 per person to all Americans. In this comparison we do get some clarity: Hillary is very much a return of the 1972 Democrats led by George McGovern and the famed 1984 San Francisco Democrats who, in the words of then UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, blamed America first for all the woes in the world.
It is becoming increasingly clear, indeed blindingly obvious, that Hillary is a radical Democrat, not a liberal Democrat. Her attack on General Petraeus, her appeasement of Iran, her socialization of medicine and now her profligate spending proposals provide fair warning to every American, including liberals, that this Clinton is nothing like the last Clinton, but is a woman of the hard left, far outside the American mainstream.
(Bold emphasis added - HH)
That has been my opinion of her for quite sometime when you consider the totality of her background, comments, and actions from her college days to present.
Where have you been, Hugh?
Out of nowhere this week Hillary Clinton proposed giving every American child a $5,000 bond at birth. The proposal went over like a lead balloon even with Democrats, and left economists and political analysts scratching their collective heads.
It reminded many of George McGovern's 1972 widely ridiculed scheme to provide a social dividend of $1,000 per person to all Americans. In this comparison we do get some clarity: Hillary is very much a return of the 1972 Democrats led by George McGovern and the famed 1984 San Francisco Democrats who, in the words of then UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, blamed America first for all the woes in the world.
It is becoming increasingly clear, indeed blindingly obvious, that Hillary is a radical Democrat, not a liberal Democrat. Her attack on General Petraeus, her appeasement of Iran, her socialization of medicine and now her profligate spending proposals provide fair warning to every American, including liberals, that this Clinton is nothing like the last Clinton, but is a woman of the hard left, far outside the American mainstream.
(Bold emphasis added - HH)
That has been my opinion of her for quite sometime when you consider the totality of her background, comments, and actions from her college days to present.
Where have you been, Hugh?
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