Draft Hillary New Hampshire????

As a loyal Clintonista and New Hampshire resident, I'm trying to get my hands around this idea.  At first it seems ludicrous to try and pull off a write-in.  This is the USA, not some backwater little country, but then I think, maybe the time is right?

As the writers point out, this is the year of the Arab Spring, OWS and even an awakening in Russia.  Perhaps America is ready for revolt.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70623.html

By PATRICK H. CADDELL and DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN | 12/18/11 10:15 PM EST

We argued in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that President Barack Obama should stand down and let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2012.

We are now calling on Democratic voters nationally — particularly in New Hampshire — to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton. This is something that New Hampshire voters have a long history of doing.

We advocate this Draft Hillary movement not because of the desire to make political mischief — but to put the country on the right course.

It’s clear that Obama has been unable to build consensus and, with the polarizing campaign he is now running, will be unable to govern effectively even if reelected. Only Clinton can commit the Democratic Party — and, indeed, the nation — to a unification and healing process. This could allow Washington, in a bipartisan manner, to finally address the economic and governmental crises that now grip America.

We are facing a crisis of national leadership, so citizens should step up and take charge of their country the way demonstrators in the Middle East did earlier this year. And, stunningly, as the people of Russia are now doing.

It’s time to take the decision about America’s leadership out of the hands of the established powers and return it to the citizens of our country. That opportunity to change U.S. politics will appear in the second week of 2012 in New Hampshire.

To seize this moment two things are required:

First, and most important, ordinary Democrats and independents in New Hampshire should mobilize behind a grass-roots effort to write in Clinton’s name during the Jan. 10 Democratic primary.

Second, a committed group of Democrats with resources and stature needs to help facilitate an authentic citizens’ movement — independent of party structure, Clinton and organized interests — to support a massive New Hampshire write-in campaign and put this before a deeply disaffected electorate.

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Can I get my heart into it?  Do I want to?

I still think she is the strongest, smartest leader we could have.  But she has turned me off in many ways the last few years.  If I can wrap my arms around the fact that she is a party animal and some of what she has said and done was under orders, then I can perhaps throw my support behind a fun try at a Write-In vote.

It might mean divorce for me, but then again maybe not.  My little o'bot wife is perhaps a sign that this could work.  She, the staunchest supporter of his O'liness I knew in 2008, she never ever listens to his speeches anymore.  She avoids politcal news and has shut her ears to the disaster that is his Presidency.  Our Vermont o'bot friends who you may recall I had to suffer through the Christmas before the 2008 NH Primary, well I was speaking to one on the phone recently and she flat out told me that Obama is a failure for the Democratice party.

They won't admit their horrendous mistake of 2007/2008, but they know in their hearts they were so very wrong.

This could be interesting.  But like the movements around the world, we'd need a name and it should not include Hillary.  This is about bringing America back to the people.  This is about Occupy Wall Street and the one former candidate who spoke up about a looming financial crisis when nobody would listen.

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