Posted on 04/02/2008 9:04:32 PM PDT by Old Lady
What worked for P.T. Barnum didn’t do as well for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). When the great showman said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” he unknowingly anticipated the fundamental assumption that underlay the campaign of the first woman seriously to contend for the presidency. But however correct Barnum’s observations may have been about the circus audiences of years ago, it has proven a flawed premise for a 21st century presidential campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
TOE-SUCKER SPEAKS!!
Tonight on Fox? Cnn? MSNBC? (I heard him but didn’t look at the TV) Dick Morris said (paraphrased) one reason Hillary will wait as long as possible to leave the campaign is MONEY... her campaign is in deep debt. If she leaves now, she will be personally responsible for the debt. As long as she is still in the campaign, she can continue to raise money to pay the debt off.
...stands about six feet tall, has blue eyes and bushy grey hair.
The Clintons’ entire approach to this campaign season was based on learning the wrong lessons from their political history. They survived the Lewinsky imbroglio, the pardons scandal, and the theft of White House gifts and assumed they were bulletproof. They confused our forgiveness with gullibility and came to feel that they could get away with anything. When Hillary won her Senate seat in New York, after Giuliani dropped out and Lazio could offer only nominal opposition, she believed she could sell voters any kind of chimera and they would fall for it.Leaving aside the last sentence, I disagress with Morris.But she assumed wrong. We saw through her claims of experience and followed her twists and turns on Iraq. We realized that she was being propped up by lobbyists and special interests as a phony brand of change. And when we saw the real kind of change offered by Obama, we backed his candidacy.
Maybe we were never quite as dumb as she thought we were.
IMHO, all along "we" knew the Clinton's were grifting, sociopathic scumbags. But the LSM wouldn't play along. Now they are and what a difference it's making. Hillary is, for all intents and purposes, smoked.
I think I hate Morris more than the Clintons. Thats like preferring the clap to genital warts.
lol
so we can get rid of Morris with antibiotics, but we’re stuck with the Clintons forever?
Being born.
It may not work for HIllary, but it’s still working for Obama.
The only reason it's working for Barak Hussein Obama is because of the complicity of the media.
Hard for losers to raise money though.
Lets tie the three of them in seperate gunny sacks and see if we can tell the difference with the use of a carpet beater.
Get over it already. Morris provides worthwhile commentary.
No. He’s a Clintonista.
I'd say about half of us were, and still are.
Barnum is usually (mis)quoted as saying there’s a sucker born every minute, but I guess Dick Morris didn’t want to use that quote.
“...And when we saw the real kind of change offered by Obama, we backed his candidacy.
Maybe we were never quite as dumb as she thought we were.”
DUMBER
What a bunch of BS,from the man who said Hillary was going to be the next President.
Nobody liked the Clontons they were the meal ticket at the time and that is why the press and everyone else made excuses for them . The press and the left wing America haters are doing and are going to continue to do the SAME thing for the Marxist Black Radical Obama . The ground is already being prepared to take his biggest weakness and make it verboten to talk about .
With these stories about the Clinton Campaign using Wright as ammunition to say Obama cant win, will in their eyes make the issue moot.They can then say it is old news and no one cares and that will be the Democrats Mantra duing the General campaign.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of all who believe Dick (the Toe) Morris. His smirky commentary is the fluff for TeeVee. I don’t believe the prick on anything!
That is correct. He didn’t say “the American people” either. He said “the plain people.” Barnum said there’s a sucker born every minute, something Obama has clearly taken to heart.
your suggestion would yield..... very little difference. Only that one of them would say, “hey, this gunny sack looks familiar.”
I saw that clip where Morris said that. I hadn’t even thought about it in those terms. That could be why Bill is so angry. They don’t want to reach into their pockets for several million dollars. Bill and Hill are all about money and power...... not the little guy. Thankfully, the American people are FINALLY seeing through their charade.
It's very simple....ANOTHER LIBERAL LIAR came along to jump over to, so the MSM abandoned the Grifter Clintons......but ONLY when ANOTHER LEFTY came on the scene to support and shove down our throats!
LOL!!!!
“Get over it already. Morris provides worthwhile commentary.”
I agree with you.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
P. T. Barnum has a few other quotes misattributed to him too.
What he did say was “No one went broke underestimating public taste”.
(see my tag line)
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