The Party of Resentment

As you may know by now, Hillary Clinton “really resents” that Bush’s War may not be over by January 2009, the month of her inaugural.

Columnist and neo-con son John Podhoretz duly took note.

It’s rare to hear questions about difficult policies discussed in terms of personal resentments, but perhaps this is one of the areas where Hillary Clinton will blaze a new presidential trail.

He should be careful.  Hillary Clinton may not be the smartest woman in the world, but she has certainly used her womanhood to good effect in her political career, most notably when Senate candidate Rick Lazio made the fatal mistake of invading her “personal space” during a campaign debate.

Everyone understands that Hillary Clinton is probably going to win the presidential election in 2008 because she will bring millions of non-voting single women to the polls.

And what do you suppose is something that single women really connect with?  You got it.  Resentment.  That Hillary.  She is some smart woman.

And it is not just the non-voting single woman that is into resentment.  In a review of the monstrous Duke Rape case, Thomas Sowell chides his fellow African Americans.

The larger tragedy is what this case revealed about the degeneration of our times and the hollowness of so many people in "responsible" positions in the media, in academia, and among those blacks so consumed by racial resentments and thirst for revenge that they are prepared to lash out at individuals who have done nothing to them and are guilty of no crime against anybody.

Yes. Resentment.  “Anger felt as a result of a real or imagined wrong done.”  Our liberal friends have a more sophisticated word.  “Passive-aggressive.” That’s what they call it.

Now we are getting somewhere.  Isn’t it really the case that the entire Democratic Party is the party of resentment?  Isn’t the primary emotion of your average bump-on-a-log American nothing more than resentment? 

Here’s how it works. Don’t ever ask your average bump-on-a-log Democrat to take responsibility for anything.  They got their rights, after all.  But don’t, whatever you do, ever forget to send that check every month.  Otherwise they might resent it.  But they certainly won’t forget to vote for a Democrat.

Here’s another word definition.  Democratic politician.  One who knows how to stir up resentment among the voters.