WASHINGTON - "Hillary Clinton committed her first giant blunder of the campaign because she is not a real New Yorker.
Real New Yorkers are blunt, clear and don't waste words. Some are so succinct, they boil entire conversations down to a single finger gesture.
They don't do what Slick Hilly did last week when asked whether she supported giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
During the debate, she said one thing, then immediately denied saying it. Then she spent the next several minutes performing two more complete rotations in her position on a simple question.
It was a midnight coon hunt through a moonless Arkansas swamp that would have made Snuffy Smith homesick.
Rudy Giuliani, for all his faults, is a real New Yorker.
Confronted by a critical caller from the New York Ferrets' Rights Advocacy group on his radio program when he was mayor, Giuliani famously told the man to get lost.
"There is something deranged about you," the mayor told the caller in a steady voice. "Your obsessive concern with little weasels is a sickness . . . You need help."
This is not a man unsure of his positions or afraid to share them. And this is why many conservative Republicans believe Giuliani when he promises he won't take their guns and won't go expanding abortion rights.*
Mayor Bloomberg is also a real New Yorker, even though he wasn't born in New York.
When he proposed the smoking ban, he caught a lot of flak at first. But he didn't back down and never ducked or dodged from his position.
Clinton's debate performance was so bad, she may as well have responded with a variation on her husband's famous dodge about fooling around with the help.
"It depends on what your definition of 'illegal' is," Slick Hilly could have said.
Few Democratic strategists - even those who want to see her lose the primary - say this was a fatal mistake. But some say it could be the beginning of the end of the Clinton dynasty.
"She walked into her own stereotype," said one strategist.
"Immigration and driver's licenses is not what she should be worried about. She should be worried that the Clintons are known as parsing, calculating triangulators, and she played right into that."
*Hey Chris, define "many".
Rudy is tough. But Rudy really doesn't understand how those unfamiliar with the cesspit that is NYC can fault his wanting to keep weapons away from the cesspitters. Having seen his share of backalley abortion clinics he can't understand how anyone could be against doing it in a clean and legal facility. Rudy is tough, but not tough enough to realize that, to a degree at least, natural selection must be allowed to occur or civilization as we know it is doomed. We are NOT intelligent animals with a vestige of instinct, but instinctual animals that learned to be intelligent. Those misunderstanding the difference will never figure out the human condition, and the last thing we need is to make one of them the boss of all bosses.
But it isn't as if Hillary is so very altruistic that she could be the poster witch for those who are clueless about humanity. No, that would elevate her to good intentions-bad ending status, forgetting the fact that she's nothing but a self-inflated opportunist addicted to power.
Rudy actually thinks he can make a difference. He'd be super tough on criminals and heaven help anyone who harms an American. But at the end of the day there's still that little voice telling him that since some people cannot handle freedom, all people should have restraints. He really doesn't get-it that sooner or later society must take a stand, and thats something endemic to politicians as a whole. They want results NOW. To be a successful politician one must have an enormous ego, and so who cares if somewhere down the road things got better, because how will it be possible to bask in the credit after being long dead and buried.
Hillary's blunder has nothing to do with not being a NY'er. The vast majority of the country is not a NY'er but many still know right from wrong. Hillary's blunder is in trying to cater to as many people as possible because she has no core value system shiny enough to share with the rest of us. The Hillary's aren't just part of the problem, they are veritable lynch pins. The Rudy's make good enforcers but lousy lawmakers.
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