The weekend in Iowa. Hillary and Bernie meet on stage with three other minor leaguers.

By Rob Janicki
On Friday night the liberal long knives gathered in Iowa to exercise their individual mojo in convincing their supporters that each was a more radical leftist than the others.  To be fair only Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders really weighed in with increasingly greater radical socialist visions for America, with, perhaps Martin O'Malley casting his lot in this direction, but with little effect.  Lesser potential Democrat candidates Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee were not drawn into the radical leftist fray and are essentially window dressing to Hillary's coronation.

Clinton and Sanders spoke with rapturous tones of fire and brimstone as they stoked the fires of their loyalist supporters and hopefully the undecided on the radical left.  They weren't speaking to the general electorate, but rather to their supporters and those they could pick up along the way to the Democratic primaries.  It's all about building grassroots support among the radical liberal loyalists for both Hillary and Sanders, which makes the other three Democrats in the Democratic primary race, essentially irrelevant. 

On the liberal left the primaries are all about who can espouse the more radical of socialist principles and policies, despite history revealing the failures of these principles and policies. The Democratic presidential primary isn't about bringing the party together despite what Hillary says.  It's all about destroying Hillary's opponents, without getting her pants suit dirty in the process, so she can bask in the glory of the mantle of leader of the Democrats in 2016.

One unspoken question is how long will it take for Hillary to attack Bernie Sanders as he gains momentum and Hillary merely has her campaign idling in neutral.  Trust me when I say that Hillary will spill party participants blood sooner, rather than later.  Hillary wants her nomination wrapped up early in the primary process.  After all she has been called the presumptive party nominee for over a year and a head to head battle with Bernie will only tarnish that vision of inevitability.

Watch Hillary, if you have a strong stomach, recite every worn, torn, tattered and tired liberal policy point ever used or even imagined by Democrats in the past 50 plus years.  It's all about class warfare, setting one class against another and it all inevitably revolves around the meme of the evil rich in the country making billions of dollars at the expense of the poor and the middle class.  What Hillary fails to mention is that it's many of these billionaires on Wall Street that are funding her campaign.  There are more liberal billionaires contributing to liberal Democrats than there are Republican billionaires contributing to Republicans, but that fact does not contribute to Hillary's campaign posturing as the "Champion of the American People".