Hillary Clinton has hit new heights of shameless powermongering as she went so far as to assault her own party, and the impassioned Democrats who make things happen in politics. Now painfully aware that if nothing had changed since last spring, she would be on her way to the White House, Clinton complained that a pernicious force in the Democratic Party had connived against her. That force? Activists.

At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the Democratic Party — and MoveOn.org in particular — for many of her electoral defeats…

Clinton’s remarks depart radically from the traditional position of presidential candidates, who in the past have celebrated high levels of turnout by party activists and partisans as a harbinger for their own party’s success — regardless of who is the eventual nominee — in the general election showdown.

This should make it abundantly clear to whatever Americans have not yet received the memo, Clinton is solely in it for herself. It is not ideology that drives her, or dedication to a cause greater than her own gain, but rather a lust for power coupled with a thorough contempt for those opposed to her. It is further enlightening - and amusing - that it was an organization formed to assist Bill Clinton in getting past the Impeachment proceedings of the late ’90s that she is attacking, MoveOn, and how she’s attacking them.

Her sneering dismissal of choice? Take a page literally from Karl Rove’s playbook and accuse MoveOn of opposing the Afghanistan war:

Clinton:“MoveOn didn’t even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that’s what we’re dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers.”

“What we’re dealing with,” according to this self-touted champion of liberalism, is a group so dastardly that they might have opposed using military action to topple a government that, despite some nasty company, did not actually attack us. By that same rationale, we should have smoked Pakistan’s military junta a long time ago. Then again, MoveOn never used that rationale, because they never opposed the Afghanistan war.

But Hillary’s problem is not so much with the war, or liberal ideology or lack thereof: Her problem is with activism itself. The notion that she cannot simply babble on about two strictly contradictory positions without some blogger catching her appals her. The threat that comes from commentators or anchors for a moment exercising journalistic integrity and presenting the public with research that proves she lies, flies in the face of her sense of fairness. Indeed, just the idea that Democrats would vote for the candidate that is best qualified and best spoken, as opposed to the one with the most popular last name, guts her notion of political mechanics.

It is the complacent, not the active, she depends on. It is the obedient, not the intellectually curious, she needs. And in the end result, it is not the passionate or the clever, the visionary or the knowledgeable who get valued - it is the loyal. Those loyal above all else - especially above truth - are Hillary’s people.

Certainly not, as she showed last week, the Democrats. Certainly not Americans.

I don’t particularly like their aesthetic, but this group voices it well: