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HRC staff ordered to lower expectations
Politico.com ^ | 12/21/2007 | Roger Simon

Posted on 12/21/2007 3:23:28 PM PST by Phlap

DES MOINES — You can accuse the Hillary Clinton campaign of a lot of things, but overconfidence is not one of them. Not in Iowa. Not anymore.

Orders have come from the top of the campaign here that nobody is to predict that Hillary Clinton will win Iowa.

That may be part of the “expectations” game that all campaigns play.

Or it may be because the campaign no longer is really sure that Clinton will win.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bernardschwartz; chinagate; chung; hillary; hollywoodgala; huang; ia2008; lippobank; lippogroup; lippopacific; loral; normanhsu; peterpaul; redarmymoney; stanlee; trie
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1 posted on 12/21/2007 3:23:29 PM PST by Phlap
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To: Phlap

“Ordered”

Hillary thinks that everything can be accomplished by an order from Der Fuhrer.


2 posted on 12/21/2007 3:25:12 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Phlap
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LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
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3 posted on 12/21/2007 3:28:40 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Phlap

Fat-legged bitch.


4 posted on 12/21/2007 3:37:19 PM PST by Waco
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To: Brilliant
Ordered?

Exactly my thoughts! Unless there are consequences, how do you order someone not to be enthused?

5 posted on 12/21/2007 3:38:15 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Waco

You don’t mince words, do you newbie


6 posted on 12/21/2007 3:40:10 PM PST by digger48
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To: Phlap
Obama is quietly becoming the force WE don’t want to run against! I’m pulling for a Hitlery win in the RAT primaries! Obama the Muslim has a VERY good chance of winning the presidency. A darn good chance! Be afraid be very afraid!
7 posted on 12/21/2007 3:40:21 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Brilliant

Shouldn’t that be “Der Fuhrerette”?


8 posted on 12/21/2007 3:41:07 PM PST by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who do not)
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To: Phlap

Hillary can’t help herself along with her minions. In an attempt to appear more personal; she still appears like Evita.


9 posted on 12/21/2007 3:41:19 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Chode

OMG, that last graphic scared me . . . I thought it signaled the return of MiaT’s interminable bandwidth-sucking posts!


10 posted on 12/21/2007 3:44:11 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Phlap

“It keeps track of a “flake rate” — those people who say they are going to show up and vote for Clinton, but probably are not...”

So, to the Clinton campaign the voters are flakes!

What a bunch of arrogant turds.

Semper Fi,


11 posted on 12/21/2007 3:45:55 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Walrus
Shouldn’t that be “Der Fuhrerette”?

Die Fuhrerette.

Der is masculine.
Das is neutral.
Die is feminine.

12 posted on 12/21/2007 3:49:00 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Phlap

13 posted on 12/21/2007 3:53:35 PM PST by Gritty (Hillary's entire campaign is a Potemkin village, a haughty facade hollow at the core-Peggy Noonan)
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To: RoseofTexas

Don’t kid yourself. Even the Republicans could take Obama Hussein to the cleaners next year. No chance of Hillary being elected is no chance of her being elected.


14 posted on 12/21/2007 3:54:09 PM PST by jwh_Denver (Free Republic: All Huck, All The Time.)
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To: Xenalyte
Image hosted by Photobucket.com lol... i heard that!!!
15 posted on 12/21/2007 3:57:32 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Phlap

It means she has given up on the “Inevitable” gambit, anyway.


16 posted on 12/21/2007 3:59:43 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Phlap; All
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17 posted on 12/21/2007 4:09:00 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Waco

Hey, I missed your 10-year FR birthday. Happy happy!!


18 posted on 12/21/2007 4:11:56 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: RoseofTexas
Obama is quietly becoming the force WE don’t want to run against! I’m pulling for a Hitlery win in the RAT primaries! Obama the Muslim has a VERY good chance of winning the presidency. A darn good chance! Be afraid be very afraid!

Yes Hillary. How is that election going these days?

19 posted on 12/21/2007 4:24:48 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Brilliant
Hillary thinks that everything can be accomplished by an order from Der Fuhrer.

Well, why wouldn’t she? Thats been her MO since she was in Wesley.

Standard clintonese, and has served them pretty well in office.
Who was that liberal reporter that bill admonished not to long ago? - he didn’t follow orders.

20 posted on 12/21/2007 4:33:38 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: RoseofTexas

>Obama the Muslim has a VERY good chance of winning the presidency.

Stop drinking so much coffee.


21 posted on 12/21/2007 4:35:27 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: RoseofTexas
Obama the Muslim has a VERY good chance of winning the presidency.

Nope, he and Hitlery are going to divide up the delgates pretty evenly, maybe even more will go for Barry O by the time of the convention. With Edwards still hanging in there to be kingmaker (somebody's gonna have to offer him the Vice-Presidency again, always a bridesmaid, never a bride!) the Hildebeest will put out the FBI files and steal the nomination from Obama-Osama by grabbing the superdelegates, who are all elected Rat officials.

The really great part about this is that all the disgruntled black voters across America vote for Cynthia McKinney on the Green Party ticket, and Hill loses.

Unless the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate either Giuliani or Huckabee.

22 posted on 12/21/2007 4:46:20 PM PST by hunter112 (Hillary Clinton - America’s Ex-Wife®)
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To: okie01

Yes, that would make it Der Fuhrerette.


23 posted on 12/21/2007 4:49:45 PM PST by null and void (I've always liked Ron Paul, he is not a like a serial rapist. - rovenstinez)
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To: devolve

Hillary’s getting lower..... ping!


24 posted on 12/21/2007 4:54:14 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

At least you didn’t say Hillary’s going down...


25 posted on 12/21/2007 5:04:31 PM PST by null and void (I've always liked Ron Paul, he is not a like a serial rapist. - rovenstinez)
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To: potlatch

Shrillay campaign alert: Vuuuuooop Vuuuuooop. Red Alert! Red Alert!
Going down, going down!

That sound you hear is the the sound of inevitability being flushed.
If she finishes third, there is going to be, in the famous words of dearly departed Barbara Olsen, “Hell to pay.”

I just can’t wait. She really could land up third. Especially if the weather is bad. Old bittys are her number one voters.


26 posted on 12/21/2007 5:08:21 PM PST by romanesq
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To: hunter112

Merry to you, family, and friends.

Here’s a present:

Warning: Strong language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2F96rCnHg


27 posted on 12/21/2007 5:09:41 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: Phlap

She may wind up getting third place in Iowa.


28 posted on 12/21/2007 5:10:47 PM PST by mware (Americans in arm chairs doing the work of the media.)
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To: devolve; null and void

[At least you didn’t say Hillary’s going down...]

Lol, she WILL be if devolve posts that graphic I was thinking ov!!


29 posted on 12/21/2007 5:10:51 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: Phlap

So Hillary will now be the victim of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Oh, the humanity!


30 posted on 12/21/2007 5:11:24 PM PST by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: Phlap

I believe Hillary’s campaign wants this story out there. I’m a cynic ... especially when it comes to Hillary.

Hillary has said she is going to win ... no doubts at all. So, is she wrong, or what?


31 posted on 12/21/2007 5:11:46 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Waco

“Fat-legged bitch.” Well said, well said. I’ve got no problems with what you said.

I can’t understand the American people and why they don’t demand more out of her and the main stream media as far as her statements that she wants to be transparent and then doesn’t deliver, i.e.,
a. the Clinton’s off shore hiding of their bank accounts (a lesson learned from Ted Kennedy).
b. her making available her White House transcripts and documents that she and Bill have locked up in the “Clinton Library”.
c. she refuses to release her list of campaign donors many of which reside outside of this country.


32 posted on 12/21/2007 5:13:46 PM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: devolve; romanesq; dixiechick2000; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; FARS
Did I hear something about 'being flushed'?? Lol


33 posted on 12/21/2007 5:17:05 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: null and void

We have Doctors for people like you. But that will have to wait ‘til I clean up all the soda that spewed forth.

Get help, soon - very soon.

;^}


34 posted on 12/21/2007 5:20:56 PM PST by pilipo
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To: Phlap

They really don’t call her HRC, do they?

If so, I can think of many things that will fit those letters.


35 posted on 12/21/2007 5:21:49 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: potlatch

36 posted on 12/21/2007 5:23:52 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: potlatch

.

A very sensitive and classy graphic potlatch!


37 posted on 12/21/2007 5:26:29 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: Phlap
Orders have come from the top of the campaign...

"Top of the campaign." Let's see, who might that be? Well, whoever it is, it's good their identity is shrouded in mystery. Because...

Simon=sycophant?

38 posted on 12/21/2007 5:26:58 PM PST by Rudder
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To: devolve; All

There you ARE!! I was waiting for this, lol. Excellent combination of gifs!


39 posted on 12/21/2007 5:38:37 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: devolve

[A very sensitive and classy graphic potlatch!]

HEY! Sometimes I’m naughty, and sometimes I’m nice. Maybe Santa will visit me twice!


40 posted on 12/21/2007 5:39:49 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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I try to maintain a high level of taste and decorum


41 posted on 12/21/2007 5:44:12 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

You guys are falling into her evil hands.

She’s setting herself up to be the Komeback Kid Redux.


42 posted on 12/21/2007 5:47:59 PM PST by JusPasenThru (Just another angry military veteran.)
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To: devolve

Snicker, I’ll start copy and pasting your ‘rants’ sometimes!!


43 posted on 12/21/2007 5:50:08 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: RoseofTexas

I just don’t see how Obama can win nationally. He will not win the south or west. If Hillary doesn’t get the nomination, I think we are rid of her for good as far as presidential aspitations go and that is good. On the other hand, if she gets the nomination and is creamed in the race in 08, she and Bill will be gone and that is better.


44 posted on 12/21/2007 5:59:26 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: JusPasenThru; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Alamo-Girl; FARS; Interesting Times; ...

.

Yeah -

We heard the Kerry graphics in 2004 would backfire too

I suppose a ton cut & pasted text and a gentle hand is the way to show up the immune Klintoons

“We need to win in a civil debate on the issues.... - We must ‘be above’ what the libs do...”

FR is loaded with sleepers and those with all kinds of expert political advice


45 posted on 12/21/2007 6:06:46 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: Phlap

interesting.


46 posted on 12/21/2007 6:12:38 PM PST by The Mayor ( A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.—Proverbs 16:9)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP

Bump for what you said devolve.

The comedic graphics keep her foibles fresh in people’s minds. They are sent out in emails and posted in blogs all over.

What? We should post a pretty picture of her when we know she’s a socialist witch?? How silly.


47 posted on 12/21/2007 6:13:50 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: devolve

“I try to maintain a high level of taste and decorum”

Me too. Actually, a vote for Monica would be better than Hillary because Monica has had more experience and time spent in the Oval Office taking care of presidential business than Hillary has! :)


48 posted on 12/21/2007 6:16:49 PM PST by seekthetruth
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To: potlatch

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Hillary drinks hemlock tea to sharpen her little mind

The pansy was never embroidered on a battle flag

Vince, Ron, and Jim were caught offguard and stupid

Honest parody graphics of actual known and often (finally) admitted acts with a touch of humor tossed in can be memorable

Thousands of books on political strategy have been written but a photo of a jerk in a tank could ruin his chances in a flash

But I could be wrong - Maybe Rush should play it in a more sensitive way - Be more bipartisan and tolerant of the sweet democrats who we know only want the best for all Americans - and Mexicans - and ChiComs - and the ever warming planet - and the doomed dying universe


49 posted on 12/21/2007 6:34:39 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

Me;
“The comedic graphics keep her foibles fresh in people’s minds”

YOU;
“Honest parody graphics of actual known and often (finally) admitted acts with a touch of humor tossed in can be memorable”

I think we think alike!


50 posted on 12/21/2007 6:43:30 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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