Posted on 03/22/2008 8:14:31 PM PDT by rface
It wasn't enough to bring forward the first woman to mount a serious run at the presidency; they also produced the first black candidate with a chance to win. This split two core Democratic constituencies, ensuring that at least one segment of their most reliable supporters would feel betrayed and abandoned yet again. They then cleverly arranged to exclude from the primary process two of the states most important to their success in the fall, in effect telling Michigan and Florida to get lost.
Not content, they adhered to a selection system that made it almost certain that any contest between two evenly matched opponents would be inconclusive. And to put a cherry on this banana-republic split, they put the final deciding power in hands of “super delegates”---a polite term for party hacks---taking us back to the days of the “smoke-filled room.”
As a result, Democrats are facing three months of guerrilla warfare between two estimable candidates, one of whom will leave the convention as the triumphant nominee---nose bent to one side, an ear hanging by a thread, missing three front teeth:
To be greeted by a tanned, rested John McCain who will then summon the justly famous Republican attack machine whose engineers will have spent the previous six months taking notes.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's approach is particularly problematic. Her main argument against Sen. Barack Obama is that she is more experienced and would make a stronger commander-in-chief “from day one.”
However specious those claims may be, she is taken seriously when she makes them. She will be laughed off the stage, however, if she makes them against John McCain, who has more experience and is a war hero besides.
Obama's message of change, hope and soaring rhetoric might be a bit ephemeral for some but it at least provides a contrast to McCain, whose speeches are Rotarian in style and who offers only more of President George W. Bush's magic elixir.
Now, it could be that the economy is such a horror show by November that a Republican victory is truly impossible. But should the economy go that far south, the Republicans are perfectly capable of convincing voters that the Democrats are at fault.
Remember, you don't have to fool all of the people all of the time; you have to fool half of them for a single day in November, once every four years.
this is an excerpt of a longer column.....click the link to read more.]
Is anyone else asking themselves, "Were the Clintons always like this?"
Just throwing out the garbage early?
I wouln’t put too much money on that jerk, McCain. The Republicans have done their best to lose the race, too.
The folks who can’t even run a primary without screwing it all up want us to believe THEY can run the country and our health care.
This must have been written before RevWright was on 24/7 shouting "G-damn America" and his other hatefilled and racist rants. I doubt anyone other than the real lib loons are going to be captivated by Obama's alleged "message of change, hope and soaring rhetoric." "Soaring rhetoric" is all he's got now, and it won't be enough.
Just asking.....yeah, baby.
Leni
Yes, by cleverly putting the early primary rule into effect, ensuring that Michigan and Florida would ignore it...
(/sarc)
That’s a fun thread in post #1!
I'm convenced the Republicans don't want the next 4 years. They're all playing hot potato so much that it brings pause as to what they know is evolving in the world that we citizens don't.
Well, the Democrats do control the Senate and the House. And what have they accomplished over the past 14 months? Investigating steroid use by baseball players, which is hardly an accomplishment.
Yup, that is one fun thread over in dummieland.
It’s all about Shamnesty and that they can’t control spending unless they start major cutbacks in entitlements. “You can pay now or pay later”. “Later” is now. A complete sell out of the voters by both parties.
Howard Dean has always been the GOP’s best friend.
So is the Bushmill’s that I am now sipping.
I love the Democratic Party. It screws its own candidates far more than the Republicans ever could.
The revolution devours its own.
“That’s a fun thread in post #1!”
Ha! They’re pissed off, scared, and confused all at the same time. It’s wonderful.
there’s plenty of entertainment over there these days
“I scoffed at the idea. I defended the “honor” of the Clintons! No way they would do such a dastardly thing...not help Kerry as much as they could, helping the country to stay Republican, when they would know what damage that would cause to the country. They would not DO such a thing!”
“But now, I think that is probably what happened. Others think so, too. The Clintons have had these plans to run for years. Their plans would not come to fruition if Kerry had won, probably.”
“Sometimes loyalty blinds us. I was blind to the Clintons.”
Both of my Senators voted against earmarks, everyone should check their own.
Oh, yeah they be throwing it, baby, what with the economy going into the low flow toilet tank, the never ending mission accomplished in Eyerack, fed deficit, mortgage market collapse, say ‘Hello’ to President Bob Dole 2008!
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