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To: CFC__VRWC
My first thoughts exactly- Susan Estrich wrote this!?!?!?!?
8 posted on 12/10/2003 7:13:30 PM PST by lawgirl (God to womankind: "Here's Cary Grant. Now don't say I never gave you anything.")
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To: lawgirl
Susan Estrich has been somewhat critical of her fellow Dems lately, especially the ones on the campaign trail.
11 posted on 12/10/2003 7:16:32 PM PST by Molly Pitcher
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To: lawgirl
Estrich is often misguided, but she seems to be intellectually honest. There is at least some hope for such people. It is working for Tammy Bruce.
14 posted on 12/10/2003 7:25:21 PM PST by speedy
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To: lawgirl
The rules were written for a candidate like Howard Dean. They were intended to ensure that an insurgent candidate would have a chance against a better financed, better organized front-runner.

I do have to take issue with her here, though. The rules were intended to be written for someone like Edwards or Wesley Clark, the golden child heir-apparent candidate hand-picked by the Clintons to lead the party forward and cement their stranglehold on it. These rules were tinkered with by the Clintons (pulling Terry McAwful's strings of course) for this year in order to expedite the process by severely front-loading the primary season.

It's the ultimate irony that this "streamlining" of the rules, designed to allow a Clinton-approved nominee to be quickly selected so he could immediately get to work raising enough money to beat President Bush (and to take a dive near convention time if Hillary decided she had a chance of winning the election), has actually allowed a candidate over whom the Clintons have no control (Dean) to all but lock up the nomination before the first vote has been cast in any primary! Bill, Hillary and Terry have just become the sorcerer's apprentices - they've started this thing up and now can't do anything to stop it. Talk about a major miscalculation - anyone could have seen this one coming from miles away, when you stack the deck so that the loudest and looniest in your party have even more say in the nomination process, since they were already the ones to vote first.

Says a lot about the "brilliant" Rhodes scholar ex-President and the "smartest woman in the world" that they couldn't see it.

24 posted on 12/10/2003 7:47:09 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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