Send everyone on over!

Of course the Republicans want to run against Hillary.

On the school-yard of presidential nominees, she is the plaid-wearing know-it-all that tells the rest of us how immature we are for playing red rover instead of hanging out by the swings, where she likes to stay and go to and fro on issues that can help or hinder her ambitions. Obama is the cool kid that all the guys want to be and all the girls want to be with. Not only does he support us in red rover, he is the captain of both teams, calling each of us to come over, daring us to be bold enough to bust through the binds that make the political game seem out of reach for us plebeians with messy hair and grass-stained knees.

It's easy to use the same old line on the bossy girl that all the kids on the playground would like to see fall off the swing at some point, simply because she manages to swing higher than we do, no matter how hard we pump our legs. But, no republican wants to be the bully that pushes the cool kid around. In the middle-school mindset that we voting adults try fruitlessly to abandon, we want to be a part of the fun; an insider in the cool-kids club. Hillary's current, and the potential for the republican's future, attacks on the viability of Obama are striking a cord of self preservation in us voters. We want to be on the inside, and feel like we are cool ourselves. We want to be accepted for who we are and what we are capable of doing-not because we trudge over to the swing and push our candidate higher and higher but because we hold hands and work together. If our gut reactions to Obama, an unlikely candidate, sound juvenile and naive, it is because they are. But they are also powerful and real. And they could propel a certain 'hope monger' into the White House.