From outside the box

I keep hearing that Bill Clinton is a "train wreck" waiting to happen in the Hillary camp. For you republicans who tend to believe every sound bite that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh throws at you, I am going to let you in on a little secret....Bill Clinton is good for Hillary's campaign, the democrats still admire and respect the man, and he's in total control of what he's saying and doing.

Bill is part of a campaign strategy that has been called "Jekyll and Hyde" politics. This is simply when a politician maintains walking the high road while somebody else does the dirty work. I don't know if this is an emerging trend or if I'm just becoming aware of it. I first caught this 4 years ago when I started noticing how John Edwards did not rebut against negative attacks shot towards him but his wife Elizabeth did. The swift boat attacks were sort of used the same way. Nobody could link them in anyway to the Bush campaign, and they worked.

Be it right or wrong, I believe we are going to see this strategy utilized to the max in the coming year by all sides. Candidates will use staffers, wives, husbands, anybody other than themselves to say the mean spirited stuff, throw out half truths, make the nasty accusations, and the things put out there can never be personally linked back to the candidate. It's too bad that a candidate can't just speak his mind and defend for himself. We the voter are partly to blame for this because we demand this unreal sqeeky clean image of our candidates. Just one of many reasons why I would never make it in politics.