The Big Sister Party

Steve Chapman, Tribune, RCP holds forth on Hillary, "The Big Sister We Can Do Without", and asks who really likes her:

It's not as though she warms the hearts of moderates everywhere. Her husband was a master of triangulating between the two poles. But Hillary's efforts to place herself in the sensible center suggest naked opportunism, not hardheaded practicality.

The candidate we all know is the one portrayed by Amy Poehler in the "Saturday Night Live" skit who, when asked about her original position on Iraq, replied with a condescending smile, "I think most Democrats know me. They understand that my support for the war was always insincere."

Unless they run as out and out leftists, Democrats are always insincere. They always try to hide the liberalism at the heart of the party. There may be a few naive freshmen, but Hillary is not in that category, (nor Obama, liberal yes, naive no--maybe just about the Clintons).

Democrats are the Big Brother, Big Sister Party, always claiming to know what's best for us, always promising big government as a solution, always raising taxes. The only reason Bill managed to triangulate so well for so long was because we had a Republican Congress to stop his excesses, (at least most of them), and because he was, as one of his own party members, Sen. Bob Kerrey described him---an unusually good liar.

Big Sister doesn't lie as well, but she embodies the Democrat Party. With her, the "naked opportunism" is revealed. Shudder.

Related posts: Obama's Technical Capacity, Hillary's Cans of Worms

UPDATE: More on the origins of the Hillary ad.