Leftists are tone-deaf.  Their whole lives are immersed in a surreal reality of ideological rhetoric and self-adulation pampered by sycophant press, sympathetic professors, and similar propagandists.  This means that leftists routinely miscalculate, and this accounts for the macabre obsession that leftists have today with Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton. This unpleasant, dishonest, and utterly unappealing woman now offers her party two bad options.  First, reject her and throw the Democrats into a real dogfight for the nomination, which will make it very hard to hold on to the White House.  Second, take a deep gulp, crown this terrible candidate, and run the risk of suffering a political tsunami in 2016. Just how bad might Hillary be for Democrats in a presidential election?  Consider first her unlikeability.  Successful presidential candidates almost always are likeable, whether this seems fair or not to us.  Ike, Reagan, Clinton, and, yes,...(Read Full Article)