Vampires and the presidential election: Jim Kunstler

Environmental write Jim Kunstler offers some vampire rhetoric to address the current US presidential cycle.  He invokes vampires in two different ways:

Edwards is willing to gaze past the kindergarten emotions of primary politics and see the stupendous ugliness and unfairness of a land that is being sucked dry by corporate vampires...
I'm reasonably confident that Hillary will stagger out of the Granite State with a stake through her heart.