Here is the "plantation" strategy that no one seems ot have grasped"
1. Hillary wants to be elected President in 2008.
2. Her perceived (by some) toughest opponent would be Condi Rice.
3. Republicans often make the case that black voters are "on the
plantation" of Democrats, because they are taken for granted, given their bloc-like voting.
4. A Condi campaign would threaten the Dem lock on black voters.
5. Commentators, if not the Condi campaign, would make a major issue of black voters considering Republican for the first time, and "plantation" would be the key word/label for this issue.
6. Hillary wants to poison this well, by memorably (mis)using the word to cloud its meaning, deceptively suggesting that it is simply a synonym for "partisan." Hillary needs to defuse this bomb before it blows up her chances.
Good point. Newt has been using the "plantation" language for a long time, and now it's off limits.