Posted on 08/11/2008 9:52:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
HILLARY Clinton would be the Democrats' White House nominee today if former presidential hopeful John Edwards had come clean earlier about an extra-marital affair, a top aide to Senator Clinton believes.
"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," Howard Wolfson, who was the combative communications director for Senator Clinton's doomed campaign, said on ABCNews.com today.
Mr Wolfson also said Senator Clinton's campaign knew about the affair but kept quiet.
"Any of the campaigns that would have tried to push that would have been burned by it," he said. Former senator Mr Edwards, whose wife Elizabeth has terminal breast cancer, confessed at the weekend to having had an affair in 2006 with filmmaker Rielle Hunter.
But Mr Edwards, who was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2004 and bowed out of this year's White House race in late January, denied fathering the six-month-old baby of Ms Hunter.
Mr Wolfson said Edwards voters in Iowa, whose presidential caucuses kicked off the 2008 race in early January, would have been behind Senator Clinton rather than Barack Obama.
"Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," he said, citing internal polling by the Clinton campaign.
"They were older, pro-union. Not all, but maybe two-thirds of them would have been for us and we would have barely beaten Obama."
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That’s first rate. :D
Poetic Justice!
There is a God!
Well, that’s life in the fast lane I guess.
I think it would have been a totally different race if Hill would’ve said she’d made a mistake on voting for the Iraq war. She was the only dem candidate who did not do so. Problem is, she knew she would lose the General Election had she done so.
I keep going back to the first SOTU after 9/11 and the look on her face when the cameras showed her. I think she saw her plans for the presidency going out the window.
And, furthermore, if Hitler had B-52s...
I think the rat convention is going to be a bar room brawl.”
It could be fun, and I fervently hope so.
I do worry about the Repub one, though, with Ron Paul acolytes gathering momentum for their (now) 3 day “jamboree” sane place, same day.
They always make those kind of statements because they lie.
I heard Mark Levin say that the reason they sat on the Edwards story for almost a year is because they were protecting OBAMA.
They were keeping it quiet just long enough to split the vote and push Obama into first place.
This makes perfect sense to me, especially looking back about a year ago, when Obama seemed to appear out of nowhere and it became obvious that he was purely a media creation.
It seems MSM was in the tank for him long before some of us ever heard of him.
So did Obama’s lies.
This will cause more fecal material to hit the proverbial fan at the Convention.
You should have campaigned on it then dumba**.
“”Any of the campaigns that would have tried to push that would have been burned by it,””
Nonsense. If Hellery was caught with her GF I bet Obama (himself fond of the dude/dude thing) would have pounced on it.
and because of this Hillary will have to be nominated to give her “could have been” voters a chance at a re-vote. You gotta love it.
Dear God, Hillary is the Nora Desmond of politics. Will she ever leave the stage?
Hillaryous! Run Hillary Run!
Could the beast have been a part in collusion with Reille to creat a pretext to contest this nomination? I am just spitballing here.
Rank Opportunism or Design?
The opera isn’t over until the fat lady sings - and she’s just hired a new songwriter....
By another other woman.
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