Article Contributed on: 1/22/2007 6:58:23 PM
I just want to go on record and say that if
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected president of the United States in 2008, I will be leaving the country. Where I will go and what I will do when I get there, I do not know. I only know that I simply cannot remain in a country that elects Hillary to the highest office in the land.
I know this sounds like an extreme position. It probably is. I remember years ago, before the 2000 election was held, hearing similar comments from people on the dark side (otherwise known as Democrats). Actor
Alec Baldwin, for example, who is as liberal as the day is long, stated that he would leave the United States if
Bush were elected.
Well, we all know what happened. Not only was Bush elected once, he was elected twice, yet Baldwin still remains in this country, getting paid millions for making movies and fighting it out with his ex-wife
Kim Basinger for custody of their daughter. So much for the integrity of the man. And if you want to get technical about it, he had two chances to get it right, since Bush was elected twice. But he is an actor, after all. They don't have to necessarily be smart. I remember thinking to myself, he may be good-looking, but he sure is an idiot. And if I ever saw him on the street, I would have told him as much.
Of course, that was then and this is now. Here I am, a half-way educated person, saying the exact same thing Baldwin said, except about a different person. But my story is completely different from his. He, after all, was talking about George W. Bush! A Republican. I am not only talking about a Democrat, but a woman. And not just a woman, but Hillary Clinton. If our country has sunk so low as to vote her into the highest office in the land? I'm sorry, but I just have to go.
It's not that I am against the idea of having a woman as president. I am not totally opposed to it. But if I ever voted for a woman, she would have to be a Republican and not married to
Bill Clinton. Even if she met those two criteria, I still would prefer to have a man. Woman can be so caddy and petty. Believe me, I know. I am a woman, after all. Besides, I have had problems with almost all of the women bosses I have ever had, but not men.
I know what some of you may be thinking. I am intolerant. I am still living in the 1950s. I am one ofthose right-wing bigots. Well, I am none of those things. I simply cannot stand Hillary Clinton. I am sure I am not alone. Whether you agree with me or not makes no difference. I still will be leaving if she is elected.
I just need to decide where I will go. Maybe you can help with me the decision. Mexico, maybe? I love the warm weather and have seen enough snow lately to last a lifetime. Israel? Perhaps. I traveled there seven years ago and fell in love with the land; I already loved the people. Jamaica. The Virgin Islands. Aruba. Well, maybe not Aruba. We know what happens there. It's going to be hard to choose because the potential destinations are endless.
Of course, several things do have to transpire before I leave the country. First, Hillary has to win, which is a long shot, but it could happen. And then I have to convince my husband. Another long shot, but if I were a betting woman, I would wager that if anything - anyone - could get him to leave the good old USA, it would be Hillary