Here’s a very detailed, big-thinking article over at RealClearPolitics that is well worth a read when you have time to sit down, take a few notes, and really contemplate it: Can the Clinton Coalition Survive the Age of Obama?

It’s FASCINATING…but very detailed, and we honestly had to re-read it a few times to fully appreciate the thousand or so important things that it said.  

Essentially, the authors look at the Coalition Bill Clinton assembled in 1996 for his second term, bringing “Jacksonian Democrats” back to the fold.  These are, essentially, the “Reagan Democrats” who ditched the party in DROVES after Jimmy Carter…the same people who, in 2008, Dr. Utopia, our illustrious current president, called “bitter, gun-and-religion-clinging, people who don’t like anyone different from themselves”.  Or, in words his Liberal friends and fellow race-baiters would say, RAAACISTS!  

Dr. Utopia was shellacked by Jacksonians in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and everywhere else in the 2008 primaries where Jacksonians recognized the Clinton moderate brand and wanted absolutely no part of Liberal socialist insanity by way of Dr. Utopia and his condescending “bitter clingers” remarks inside the Getty Mansion in San Francisco. 

In the article above, the authors note that in 1996, Bill Clinton appealed to not just these Jacksonian Democrats, but also to Independents in the suburbs who wanted law and order, good schools, safe streets, low taxes, and responsible government spending.  These suburbanites are culturally and fiscally conservative, thinking family and entrepreneurialism first, with absolutely no interest in a sweeping Liberal agenda anymore than they wanted to jump into any Right wing religious zealotry.  

If you notice, these people the writers talk about in 1996 as part of the Clinton Coalition are the very same people who stood with Hillary Clinton herself to the end in 2008. They also include many conservatives on the Republican side who, to this day, say they would rather have had a third Clinton term with Hillary in the White House than to have Dr. Utopia in office today.  

We have not seen anyone else, ANYWHERE, make this realization yet. 

Instead, for more than the last year, we’ve constantly been berated by the MSM that 2008 was such a historic election, that the “youth vote and the black vote” were phenomenally large and that Liberals have secured a permanent majority and hold on this country in a monumental landslide of an election.  All of that is sheer and utter nonsense. 

The “Clinton Coalition” article notes that 2008 was actually primed for a Democrat of the Clinton mold to win 60% of the national vote…while Dr. Utopia only won 53%. They claim Bush’s second term, in particular, had been perceived as an upper-middle-class independent voters’s personal nightmare:  out of control social policies, massive spending, two wars spinning out of control, financial collapse of businesses and banks, etc. The authors note “the right Democrat candidate could have put together a massive Presidential majority” by building a new coalition of not just the urban elites, blacks, dyed-in-the-wool loyal Dems, but also the suburbanites and Jacksonians as well.  

Dr. Utopia did not do that.  

It’s apocryphal to call his victory a landslide, beacause it wasn’t.  Landslides happened in 1920/1932/1952 and 1980, as the authors note.  Hillary Clinton would have had a landslide victory in 2008, if you read what the authors are saying and factor in what we’ve told you about the primaries:  she won all of the people the authors say did not vote for Dr. Utopia as they should have. 

Another thing the authors don’t note but we have repeatedly told you:  the only reason Dr. Utopia won at all in 2008 is because Republicans sat their butts home.  If the GOP had managed turnout at George Bush’s 2004 re-election levels, President John McCain would be in the Oval Office today.  

One of the things that makes us the most furious around here is whenever we read anything derogatory and dismissive of PUMAS on Republican sites.  While Republican after Republican we knew sat on their fat lazy backsides in 2008, eating their fudgecicles and drinking their bourbons, claiming “Oh, McCain is not conservative enough for us, so we’re just going to not vote this year because that will teach the GOP a lesson…and Obama will be a new Carter and then we’ll get a new Reagan in four years, heh heh heh”, moderate Democrats like us went traipsing through most of the Midwest riling up as many Jacksonians as we could to vote Republican — most for the first time in their whole damn lives.  We had dogs sicked on us, rocks thrown through our windoews, nonstop hate mail sent to us (to this day, as a matter of fact), because we were lifelong Democrats who knew what Dr. Utopia was, who clearly saw what he planned to do to this country, and who understood his term in office would be four long years of nonstop reckless spending on socialist/communist/radical entitities like ACORN (just as George Soros directed). 

Read the “Clinton Coalition” article.  The reason Dr. Utopia won by 53% and not 60%, as he should of, is because of PUMAS.  The article calls us “Jacksonian Democrats”, and maybe that’s what we all were before 2008, but we’re PUMAS now and forever baby.  The majority of us will never call ourselves Democrats again.  Those of us here at HillBuzz are still weighing that decision, because being a Dem has been part of our cultural identity our wholel lives.  None of us step into a church except for funerals and weddings, but we all still call ourselves Catholics. However, increasingly, the Democrat Party has done so many terrible things in the last two years that we now call ourselves “Clinton Moderates” more than anything else.   That’s “PUMA” for short. 

None of us can imagine voting Democrat in 2012 unless Hillary Clinton is the nominee.  There are a lot of new readers here over the last few days who found us because of an article we wrote detailing our reappraisal of former President George W. Bush.  We here at HillBuzz fully intend to campaign for the Republican nominee in 2012 so that Dr. Utopia gets only one term and there can still be time to save this country from the socialist cancer this terrible man has stitched into the fabric of our nation.  If Sarah Palin runs for President, we will quit our jobs and move to Ioawa to ensure we do everything we can to stop Dr. Utopia from gaming the Caucus like he did to Hillary.  We will relive the nightmare of the last two years’ of our lives, learning from everything Dr. Utopia and the DNC did last time and make sure they do not win again.  Those crazy Leftists must be defeated so that, someday, the Clinton Coaltion of 1996 and the Hillary Dems of 2008 can take back the Democrat Party and boot the deranged Carrter/Utopia elements out.  

The “Clinton Coalition”, while not touching on PUMAS, and not even mentioning the Republicans who sat their sorry asses home in 2008 because “McCain wasn’t good enough”, notes that Dr. Utopia won in part because he created such intensity in the liberal, urban, and racist black base of the party.  That’s another thing Democrats and the MSM don’t like to talk about, but the biggest racists we have ever met in this world are black people.  They came out in droves to vote for someone they knew absolutely nothing about, just because his skin was the same color as theirs.  These same low-information racist voters are the ones who keep expecting the current president to send them free checks in the mail, or give them reparations and other prizes.  Increasingly, we hear them grumble that their guy isn’t doing anything for them.  Blacks are the most notoriously unreliable voters in the Democrats’ coalition.  While they will ALWAYS turn out in big numbers for a black candidate, and will always abandon people who have been good to them, like the Clintons, if a black they don’t even know appears on the ballot too, they just might not be so eager to turn out in 2012 because Dr. Utopia is already president.  There will be no impetus for them to “make history” as the MSM kept putting it.  ”The first black president elected to two terms” is not a great motivator for these people.  It won’t motivate the urban liberals too, or the LGBTQ community either.  All of that magical mojo was used up in 2008, never to be repeated again. 

We are telling you — and we hope to Heaven some of you listen — that Republicans will never, ever win the racist black vote, the delusional liberal urban elite vote, or the low information LGBTQ vote.  It is a waste of time to even try, because none of these groups vote rationally and will always pull the lever for the Democrat — with the exception of blacks, who will vote for anyone else who is black, regardless of party, ability, or any other qualification.  

2012 entirely hinges on three things:

(1) the GOP running a candidate who turns out their base, so that few idiots sit at home “to teach the GOP a lesson” because they believe the candidate is not conservative enough

(2) that candidate needs to talk only about creating jobs, lowering taxes, reining in spending, providing law and order, stabilizing the economy, securing energy independence for this country, protecting our citizens, and providing a solid education and path to a good future for our children.  NO talk about social issues…no attacks on gays…no crusade on abortion…no fodder for the Race Industry

(3) balancing (1) and (2), the candidate needs to appeal to conservatives while standing tall and strong as someone Jacksonian Democrats, PUMAS, independent voters, and Clinton Moderates, whatever you want to call us, can get behind

Ladies and Gentlemen, that person is Sarah Palin. 

If she goes for it, she’ll be the 45th President of the United States. 

Read the “Clinton Coalition” article, because everything in there points to Dr. Utopia’s defeat in 2012. If Democrats are smart, they will convince Dr. Utopia to pull an LBJ and announce he has a medical illness (most likely Parkinson’s, which is sympathetic) and cannot seek a second term.  

And then the Democrats should nominate Hillary Clinton.  

But, 2012 will not be an automatic win for her in the general election as it would have been in 2008.  Remember what the “Clinton Coalition” article said, about voters responding to Bush, the financial collapse, and everything else they blamed Republicans for.  Well, in 2012 voters will be blaming Democrats for all of Dr. Utopia’s broken promises.  On top of that, the reckless spending this White House and Congress are engaged in will have perhaps permanently ruined our economy by 2012.  

The article notes that it took Bill Clinton’s controlled spending and budget surpluses to convince voters Democrats weren’t spendthrift loons after Jimmy Carter. 

Three years from now, Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid will  probably have put those old Carter terrors back into everyone.  It honestly could be another 20 years before Americans trust Democrats with a budget again.  

Hillary might very well be the Democrats’ only hope in 2012…because if made the nominee, at least she will have a shot, unlike Dr. Utopia…but he may well have done so much damage that she can’t win.  

If everything continues to align as it is now, a woman will indeed be President in 2012, be it Hillary or Sarah…and we will work our heart and souls out for her on the ground whichever one it is who takes on Dr. Utopia because we just can’t let this man have a second term. 

We honestly don’t think America would survive it.