What's Wrong with Hillary's Campaign Team?

FPM ^ | 22 MARCH 2007 | Dick Morris

[NCC-1701]

"...advising her straight into defeat?..."

And that is bad becase.....?

[Izzy Dunne]

A fish rots from the head down.

[P-40]

She’s gone steadily downhill since she announced

That is because she is campaigning. If she would quit, her numbers would go up.

[OKSooner]

You just wait and see what's going to take her place.

[ctdonath2]

She can't win a normal primary. She missed her chance last round - to come in at the 11th hour, rescuing the floundering party from defeat by her own high-profile arrival and sweeping up an impassioned electorate high on hype and desperate to replace a breakfast food candidate ... and pulling it off in just 30 days, before the hype waned and the skeletons started marching out of the closet.

She waited too long. Having been the nominee-in-waiting for years, she _had_ to announce early - way way way too early. The media's short attention span follows its usual path from fawning hype to hostile interrogator, a cycle which takes - and took - about 30 days. Unable to gloss over the negatives for long, she's toast.

[Izzy Dunne]

If she would quit, her numbers would go up.<

That sounds stupid, but dang if it's not the truth.

Her numbers are best when the whitewash crew is out front selling it.

When she comes out of the tent, people realize they've been sold.

[DCPatriot]

And the Democratic left has repeatedly challenged her conservative positions.

Aww SH*T....I'm sending Morris the cleaning bill for that. This shirt is NEW!

[ClearCase_guy]

So, the woman with most brilliant political team in the country has been repeatedly outmaneuvered and outsmarted.

"There are no such things as contradictions. When you think you have found a contradiction, check your premises. One of them is wrong." -- Ayn Rand

[P-40]

I think The Onion agrees with us. :)

Hillary Clinton Tries To Woo Voters By Rescinding Candidacy

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/hillary_clinton_tries_to_woo

[cake_crumb]

Novac uses the word "coronation", Morris uses the more eloquent "imperial- incumbent- in- waiting", and BOTH are stopping just short of calling her the second Sheets Byrd....when the truth comes out in print like that, somebody's in trouble.

[rod1]

I love the Morris article dissing Hillary. But it also reeks of his own personal egotism over his own campaign prowess (and lack of a curent job).

Soon it will be Carville and Begala time. Snake and Forehead know how to take care of candidates like the upstart Obamarama. and watch for the MSM-embedded Clintanoids, Steffi et al., to begin to come to Hillary's rescue.

[relictele]

Some have stated in convincing fashion that it will be a Hillary/Obama ticket in one form or another.

However, to restate my case: Hill & the Harpy Squad are comprised of Mandy Grunwald & her clones: unhappy, vengeful, condescending martinets who are convinced that a large swath of the electorate will buy any brand of snake oil marked with a 'D' and believe any lie, no matter how outrageous. They have, of course, 8 years of a previous Clinton presidency as evidence. Since they usually demand and exercise total control, there are two wild cards that are making life difficult for them:

1) Competition. This time the rival is in plain sight and receiving truckloads of daily media coverage. Any dirty tricks will have to be carried out with pinpoint precision to avoid detection. The question occupying Team Hill: how do we play the race card and make it look like Obama is at fault?

2) The candidate. Let's ignore her surname, party, politics, title and record. Based on a partial first Senate term, what on earth would lead anyone to think that this person has leadership qualities? If you'd never been introduced and had to listen to a live speech wouldn't you take a permanent bathroom break at the first opportunity? What does it say about a candidate whose handlers won't permit ANY off-the-cuff comments? Edwards was rightly ridiculed for his visit-the-country-cousins DIY photo op but can you imagine the comedy potential of Hillary in a flannel shirt & dungarees planting tulip bulbs with Mabel in Nashua NH? The one thing Team Hill cannot overcome with money or press coverage is that the candidate does not appear to have an existence or interest outside of politics. The "I'm a mom" thing is largely a non-starter when one's only child is already an adult woman.

[nascarnation]

I'm not so sure.
I think Hill's in big trouble.

All the sleaze without the slick.

and Obama has the Oprah endorsement already, LOL

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Their candidate?

[ExTexasRedhead]

The problem with Hillary's campaign is HILLARY. She's evil and it oozes from every pore of her body. She's not liked because of her arrogance, evil heart, pro-terrorist, socialist, anti-military ideology. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Hillary's poor performance in recent polls is probably attributable to the bad polling habits of popular pollsters. These are the companies which have been shown to regularly oversample cities, and women and other liberal democrats when they purport to sample an objective slice of America. Consequently, they are receiving more moonbat responses than an objective slice of America might deliver.

The libs and the press pollsters have forgotten how to poll impartially and it is biting their favored candidate. Sweet!

[no dems]

Soon it will be Carville and Begala time. Snake and Forehead know how to take care of candidates like the upstart Obamarama.

Where have they been up to now? Aren't they on the team already? If so, they must be in "stealth" mode planning their attacks.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

imagine Hildebeast "charming" voters!

[ken5050]

I noticed the same thing.....

[reformed_democrat]

You just wait and see what's going to take her place.

Obama scares me more than she does. She's not electable, he is. No one knows anything about him, and no one wants to look behind the curtain for fear of being called a racist.

[HIDEK6]

So far, the ‘charm’ hasn’t worked.

She's just like Richard Nixon, except she doesn't have his charisma.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How delicious.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Yep. How do you factor the Hillary Factor when you're running her campaign? A real conundrum. They've tried every shade of lipstick that exists and damn, if she isn't still a pig.

[BluH2o]

All of them, and Hillary, too, expected to simply walk away with the Democratic nomination and then grab the White House. Just like the two New York Senate races.

Hildabeast won her first senate race because Guiliani, who most certainly would have beat her, pulled out of the NY U.S. Senate campaign due to prostate cancer. She, as mentioned in the article, ran virtually unopposed in her second senate campaign. Hillary and her campaign staff have become over confident and are paying the price. Bottom line, it doesn't really matter, because da beast will never win the WH ... ever.

[cake_crumb]

"Soon it will be Carville and Begala time. Snake and Forehead know how to take care of candidates like the upstart Obamarama. and watch for the MSM-embedded Clintanoids, Steffi et al., to begin to come to Hillary's rescue."

I thought of that too after reading "start looking for heads to roll". It'll happen.

[cake_crumb]

Very good analysis. Problem is that with the right handlers she can BECOME anything. Hopefully after she damages her image beyond repair.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Maybe there's nothing wrong with her campaign team, maybe it's the candidate - you can't make a silk purse out of a sow['s ear].

[Wallace T.]

If I were Senator Obama, I would watch my back very carefully. It would be in his best interest not to ride in private planes or travel to the Iraq war zone.

[cake_crumb]

"No one knows anything about him, and no one wants to look behind the curtain for fear of being called a racist."

That's what worries me about him. But don't forget, it's VERY early yet.

[Suzy Quzy]

he's not electable....shhhhhhh

[Gritty]

[new cruelty]

What's wrong with hillary's Campaign Team is that they are campaigning for hillary. ;)

[rob777]

"They thought that she would charm the voters once they got to know her."




If so, they are more deluded than anyone imagined.

[Liberty Valance]

I think Hillary is running head-on...



...into the political concensus of no more Clintons,
no more Bushes in the next administration.

[WesternPacific]

You can only throw so many ashtrays and lamps at campaign workers. I guess campaign workers aren't as understanding as billy boy.

[Graymatter]

We need to have a special medal struck for these people who advise Dem candidates right into the very bass-o-matic of defeat. They may be doing it inadvertently but they are doing America a service worth celebrating!

[mewzilla]

What's wrong with her campaign team?

No-one dares tell the empress she's wearing no clothes...

[Scott from the Left Coast]

What's Wrong With Hillary's Campaign Team

Um...they got a crappy candidate?

[Graymatter]

*snort*
And Nixon had better ankles!

[tioga]

now THAT mental image is disgusting - bad enough we see those cankles every once in awhile when she sends the black pant suit to the cleaners........

[mewzilla]

LOL. Sorry. Seriously though, the fear factor explains a lot, I think. Lady MacBeth is her own worst enemy.

[hissingdemonrats=beware]

Who wants a woman for president? Especially ,Hidebeast!

[tioga]

-now think about this.....bill has seen her nakeeed and he runs FROM the hill whenever he gets the chance.......we should BEWARE!

-and seriously she is her own worst enemy....she needn't blame it on anyone else.

[JoanneSD]

Any one even notice how Mandy grunwald, and Helen Thomas look alike? I wonder if they are related...double ugly..

[ontap]

No-one dares tell the empress she's wearing no clothes.


A mental image I could have done without!

[mewzilla]

A mental image I could have done without!

In that case, you definitely don't want to click here

Heh heh heh....

[Lurking in Kansas]

All the sleaze without the slick.

Yupe. You nailed it in one sentence.

[Dilbert56]

Car-vile and Begaga may be out of their league now. The rise of talk radio, Fox News and blogs has made it harder for candidates to take different positions based on the audience. Bill Clinton was a smooth charmer who, when caught lying, could spin his way out of it. Shrillary, when caught, gives the "deer in the headlights" look and then tries to crack a joke that falls flat. She's not talented enough to pander to all the aggreived factions that comprise the Democrat party.

[darth]

She's still got $200M+ and all of the big state primaries are getting stacked into a short period of time. I see her fingerprints all over the accelerated primary schedule. I forecast the mother of all media barrages during those primaries. And don't forget that dims can BUY a win in the primaries. Vote fraud is perpetrated by PROFESSIONALS FOR CASH. One of the top vote fraud investigators in the CA Attorney General's office told me, "For a half million dollars ANYONE can win the primary and the general election in most of our districts".