The Evolving Democratic Presidential Contest

As a conservative, I freely admit that I am loving the current dust-up in the Democratic Presidential contest.

Hillary is finally getting slapped around for her obfuscations, waffling, and inexperience.

So, for that matter, is Obama.

It's thrilling to see these two, and Edwards, begin to tear at each other for real weaknesses and character flaws which matter in our President.

It's also wonderful to see that this is an Equal Opportunity melee. Obama's picking on Hillary because she has problems with the truth- much like her husband- and with others criticizing her. Not because she's a woman. But because she has no Presidential experience. Only a term plus a few years as a Senatorial windbag.

Same with Hillary, on Obama. She's beating on him for having virtually no experience with anything near to the Presidency. Not because of his race.

He's a pup, and we all know it. His experience, and I use the term loosely, largely falls into having been an aide to a seriously disconnected-from-reality, bow-tie wearing clown from Illinois, the late Senator Paul Simon, plus a few terms in the amateur hour Illinois Congress.

God help us if we trust Obama with our foreign policy. I'm not sure the other G8 leaders will allow him in the room, other than for milk and cookie time.

Hillary's not much more experienced, but she's more clever and has been around, thanks to her husband's two terms as President and Governor of Arkansas. And her own, long-ago machinations on the Democratic side of the Watergate Committee.

Our Republic is incredibly well-served for having these two finally rip into each other's inexperience bases and shifting, or idiotic, as the case may be, stands on various issues.

And, yes, I welcome it on the Republican side, as well. Although I think Huckabee is a joke. Plus, we really can't be serious about electing the second Governor from Arkansas within a decade, can we?

Anymore than to extend the run to 24 years in which the Republic will have been presided over by people from only two families- the Bushes or the Clintons- can we?

But in the meantime, the everlasting campaign is finally making these ambitious pretenders to our throne really have to run the gauntlet.

I love it.

Hillary & The Democratic Presidential Candidates' Latest Debate

These past few weeks have seen the campaign for the Democratic party's Presidential nomination become much more turbulent than most pundits would apparently have guessed.

As this YouTube clipped demonstrates, Hillary has now defined any criticism of her stands and actions, coming from her rivals in her own party, as "mudslinging."



Whether or not, as the clip's final message contends, it's a Republican tactic, which, by the way, at least this election season, it isn't, is true, is another issue.

What is illuminating is how many voters and this YouTube poster feel Hillary is running for cover behind her gender and, now, the retort of 'mudslinging' when her fellow Presidential candidates legitimately question her shifting positions on a variety of issues.

I suspect that Hillary's lead may weaken. Even if it does not, what will get her by an inexperienced Obama and a populist Edwards won't beat Giuliani or Romney.