Seventeen Reasons Hillary Should not be our nominee in 2008

It would be nice if we did not even have to waste a lot of energy on it, but the hope is vain.  The Clintons love power more than service.

Here are seventeen reasons we should snuff Hillary's hopes out.

1.  For the Democratic Party to get new energy, it needs new direction.  The Clinton direction, while surely better than Lieberman's, is plenty enough in that direction to disqualify her.

2.  She and her husband brought us George Stephanopolous

3.  Election night, 2000, at a party covered by the press, someone says "I want to kill Nader!"  Hillary says "That's not a bad idea!"  Hillary never apologizes.

4.  Hillary on Iraq = Bill on Iraq = "triangulation" = death of innocent people in Iraq, deterioration of security and welfare for Iraqis who are not killed, plus serious degradation of the security and welfare of the people of the United States and the whole world.

5.  Kerry was miserable enough on all of (4.) above, and Hillary is still worse, further making the Democratic Party irrelevant.

6.  Hillary as 'first woman presidential candidate from a major political party' is as great a distraction from the truth as the proposition that Clarence Thomas is someone bringing diversity to the Supreme Court.

7 through 5,464:  I can easily come up with more, but somebody else's turn now.