{"id":5674,"date":"2014-05-26T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:49:39","slug":"hillary-is-too-centrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"Hillary is too &#039;centrist&#039;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What a strange problem to have.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton likely will run for president in 2016. The right wing detests her, which is a given. Now we hear that the left wing isn&#8217;t crazy about her, although she&#8217;d be a far better alternative to whomever the Republicans likely will nominate in two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gVZgTayaNx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/207187-hillary-leaves-left-cold\/\">Hillary leaves left cold<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Hillary leaves left cold&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/207187-hillary-leaves-left-cold\/embed\/#?secret=icGdnQq977#?secret=gVZgTayaNx\" data-secret=\"gVZgTayaNx\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The way I see it, the former first lady\/U.S. senator\/secretary of state is positioning herself in a position to actually win the White House. By my calculation, that means she&#8217;ll have to reach toward the center &#8212; which by definition means she&#8217;ll lean <em>away<\/em> from those on the far left of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Does this remind you of anything or anyone? I&#8217;m reminded a bit of her husband, the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Do you recall the term &#8220;triangulation,&#8221; which defined the tactic of playing both extremes against each other to craft a centrist domestic and foreign policy? My trick knee suggests Mrs. Clinton might be willing to perform the same sort of balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>Will the left-wing base of the party find a suitable alternative candidate? There&#8217;s talk of Sen. Elizabeth Warren or of Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who really is a thinly veiled Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>I consider it a pipe dream if those on the left think they&#8217;re going to derail the Hillary Juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>The only possible way Hillary Clinton would appease anyone on the right would be for her to switch parties and become a Republican. That&#8217;s not a sure thing, though, as some GOP folks would concoct some goofy conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the left will come around, just as the right comes around whenever the Republicans seek to nominate a centrist for president.<\/p>\n<p>My own view is that centrist policies speak to what Colin Powell once referred to as the vast ocean of middle-ground opinion where most Americans find themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a formula for winning an election.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a strange problem to have. Hillary Rodham Clinton likely will run for president in 2016. The right wing detests her, which is a given. Now we hear that the left wing isn&#8217;t crazy about her, although she&#8217;d be a far better alternative to whomever the Republicans likely will nominate in two years. Hillary leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillary is too &#039;centrist&#039;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631,1056,1337,2139,3907],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-colin-powell","tag-democratic-party","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}