The Billary myth

In the year and a half that I've been doing this blog, I've attempted to dis spell the notion of The Billary popularity myth.

For some reason, democrats have always had this love affair with a political actor who never received 50% of the popular vote in either of the presidential elections he was in and have always had this script for The Billary as some kind of gothic republican killer

Here is a piece addressing the illusions of grandeur of The Billary supporters (HT Bizzyblog)

Excerpt

There always has been something delusional about the Clintons' project to make Hillary this country's next commander in chief. Start with the balderdash so frequently exuded through the media that she is, along with her husband, a "rock star." Well, they left the White House like rock stars. They trashed the place.

Yet Hillary, a physically unprepossessing lady on the far side of middle age, is not a rock star. Agreed, when she and her bodyguards enter a room, she turns a lot of heads, but so does a roadside automobile accident or the clumsy waitress who just spilled a warm plate of fettuccine alfredo on a customer. Why have members of the press insisted on claiming that Hillary is a rock star and, more preposterous still, that she possesses "charisma," notwithstanding that she is a pedestrian campaigner with a tin ear for politics?

For that matter, why have members of the press insisted on claiming that the former Boy President is a political genius? The Democratic Party went into decline almost everywhere throughout the republic while he was bemanuring the White House. Truth be known, when Boy Clinton began campaigning for her, her prospects darkened. The stubborn minority of journalists who have remained undeluded by the Clinton legends and aware of the Clinton record recognized the impending danger. All through the spring and summer, I was asked on talk radio and television whether I thought Bill would be active in Hillary's campaign and, if so, whether he would be an asset. Usually, I expressed doubt on both counts. As I point out in my book about his retirement and his attendant designs to return to the White House, "The Clinton Crack-Up," Hillary's staff always has been uneasy about the presence of her big loveable lug on the campaign trail. Anyone who might bother to contemplate his record as a campaigner would recognize that he is poison when he campaigns for others. In 2004, of the 14 fated Democrats he campaigned for, 12 lost.

I believe we're seeing this same incarnation with Obamamania. People see Obamamania as some kind of invincible tidal wave of liberalism sweeping across the nation.

Why? Because he took out The Billary, the former invincible tidal wave of liberalism.

Let's remind our "progressive" friends out there that they have not received 51% of the popular vote in a presidential election since LBJ in 1964. Jimma Carter got all of 50.8% of the popular vote against a perceived corrupt republican administration.

Progressives would probably offer that their lack of success is more due to the messenger than the message. But their message is why their messengers are continually rejected. After all, look at the GOP candidates over the years (Nixon, Ford, Dole, Bush) not exactly a Whitman sampler of charismatic candidates.

The Billary received all of 49.2% of the vote against a corpse and a lunatic in 1996.

It's still early in the process, but I think it's going to be hilarious to watch all these Kool Aid drinking Obamamania types become totally unhinged when their candidate gets bitch slapped in the general election.

And the NY Times accomplished nothing this morning except piss off a bunch of republicans who probably would have stayed home in November rather than vote for McCain.