Reviewing Bill O'Reilly

On reading Bill O’Reilly”s article about there being five political parties running, I find a few points of disagreement. O’Reilly stated that Sen. Clinton is the standard bearer for “the old party line” and that only Sen. Obama and Sen. Edwards are finding support in the leftist extreme of the Democratic Party. All three are leftist extremists, it is just that Sen. Clinton has the national political organization of former Pres. Clinton to call upon. That is a huge asset that cannot be underestimated. Sen. Clinton has taken a page from the Clinton playbook of sounding moderate to draw in mainstream democrats, independents, and disgruntled republicans, then move back to the extreme left where she actually has her ideological home. One point that I agree with is that it will be a Clinton/Obama ticket. Since you read this here in Dec. 2006, other commentators, Michael Savage and Neal Boortz, have come to the same conclusion. The republicans are in disarray to the point of having their own candidate for the disgruntled republican and independent vote, Congressman Ron Paul. He is a pariah in the Republican Party because, like Teddy Roosevelt, doesn’t play their political games. He’s honest and he tells you what he believes and sticks to it, regardless of who he is addressing. The republican powers that be tried to stifle Teddy and he ended up tweaking their noses good. He should’ve punched them in the nose good, but that is another story. The best we can hope for with Ron Paul is a good tweaking. That’s too bad because he might actually stand a chance of beating Clinton/Obama.