Fox's Whitney: Hillary Clinton is "doomed" in '08 after "plantation" comment

January 23, 2006

[John Lenin]

Transcript of Fox News' Cavuto on Business show with Meredith Whitney and Herman Cain, January 21, 2006

NEIL CAVUTO (host): All right, we're back to go "On the Spot." Meredith, my friend, what have you got?

WHITNEY: It will take more than a village to get Hillary Clinton elected in '08 after her comments on the plantation. She's doomed.

CAVUTO: So the charge that Republicans ran Congress like a plantation, you think, hurts her?

WHITNEY: Yeah. Offended just about everyone.

CAVUTO: Maybe she's galvanizing, do you think she could be galvanizing her base?

WHITNEY: Well, she galvanized blacks, she galvanized me, a lady, and she, I mean, it's -- it's going to be tough sledding for her.

CAVUTO: All right. Herman Cain?

CAIN: Martin Luther King Jr. day, birthday celebration, is supposed to be about unity. She took a play right out of the Democratic playbook, which was when you want to pander to the African Americans, you race-bait. And I happen to think that in 2006 as well as 2008, she's going to discover, along with a lot of other Democrats, that a lot of us have already left the Democratic plantation. And you know what I mean.

[ashtanga]

As long as a segment of the American public sees the government as a means of legally stealing the goods of the productive to give over to the congenitally idiotic, Hillary will remain in power.

[LS]

Check out Shelby Steele's op ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday on this same issue. He DESTROYS her, and says much the same thing.

[John Lenin]

I love to say it, the Barrett report is worse than the 900 FBI files the beast holds in her secret vault. If you what I mean ...

[charrisGOP]

"BEFORE she grabbed at yet another opportunity to demonstrate her existential bigotry to the world and her organic appeal to the Bell Curve lumpen."

"And YOU know what I am talking about!"

The greatest single advantage the Republican Party has in the foreseeable future is that people like this are the competition.

[Brian Allen]

<< I thought it was just outright offensive ... >>

But missed its real importance.

Which was that it demonstrated just how f*****g [Freaking?] dumb she is.

The moment she gets a 32nd of an inch from the script every sound from her mouth is moronic, assinine, infantile, catty, ridiculous, mean-spirited, condescending, supercilious, pontificating, vapid, just plain downright stupid, is demonstrative of her self-loathing and insecurity -- and/or is a combination of all of the above.

[LS]

Shelby Steele said in the WSJ that it was neither the specific comment nor what came next, but her utter falseness that absolutely DID NOT CLICK with the black audience. I guess there was barely any applause, more like nervous silence! He said (WSJ, 1/23) that unlike Bill, who could present himself as actually empathizing with the "oppressed," Hillary came across as rubbing their noses in their weakness, and they did NOT like it.

[ashtanga]

I wish Hillary no ill, but I'd like her to receive her just reward: becoming a real estate agent in Arkansas, or perhaps running a used car dealership in Alabama.

[flair2000]

She married WWE Smackdown's John Bradshaw Leyfield (who is also a financial analyst) early last year.

[Brian Allen]

<< As long as a segment of the American public sees the government as a means of legally stealing the goods of the productive to give over to the congenitally idiotic ... >>

Such of the congenitally-idiotic, that is, as California cotton growers, Wisconsin milk farmers, Iowa corngrowers, ADM, Ford, General Motors, United, American and US Airlines, the railroad and every other gummint-guaranteed pensioners, student loan debtors, the entire feral bureacracy and its every lying, looting, thieving, cheating "contractor" - and every other damned dole and handout recipient and member of the US feral gummint's new welfare rich!

[reasonmclucus]

Political reporters who have no real journalistic skills need a presidential candidate to talk about between elections. They've chosen Hillary as the Gary "Monkey Shines" Hart of 2008. You remember how he self destructed leaving the Democrats with Michael Dukakis. Hillary is an old Goldwater supporter who with a tendency shoot herself in the foot like Goldwater did on occasion.

If Democrats weren't such donkeys they would encourage her to go home and bake cookies. Democrats still haven't figured out that the Clintons were the biggest disaster to afflict the Democratic party since the Civil War. when the Clintons moved into the White HOuse Democrats had controlled Congress with only very limited interruptions for 60 years. They promptly lost control to the Republicans two years later with Hillary's health care proposal being part of the cause.

Hillary Clinton is the best thing the Republicans have going for them in 2008 and should encourage her candidacy.

[jonrick46]

I doubt if the typical voter who is apt to vote DemonRAT is even paying attention to the blunders of Hitlary. For many of them the only thing that would raise their ire would be for their favorite night club to raise their cover charge.

And too many voters use the voting process as a means to atone for their lack of citizenship. By voting DemonRAT, one makes a vote they think will keep government in the business of the nanny state.

And who would make the perfect figurehead for that government arch-nanny than Hitlary?

[John Lenin]

The GOP can buy votes too, it's called tax cuts.

[jecIIny]

Sadly this is wishful thinking.

[Brian Allen]

<< The greatest single advantage the Republican Party has in the foreseeable future is that people like this are the competition. >>

To such awful career seat-warmers, morons, idiots, RINOs and bums as John McCain, Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, Trent Lott, Lincoln Chaffee, David Drier and Duke Cunningham?

We should celebrate that hundreds like them and their feral and state ilk are on "our side?"

Bah! Humbug!

I'll keep praying and working for term limits. Our republic's only chance of surviving liberalism's obsessive-compulsive, unrelenting and destructive attack.

[John Lenin]

I hope the RATS are stupid enough to nominate her in 08.The Swift Boat campaign will look like childs play.

[jecIIny]

I am originally from New York. All I can tell you is that 6 yrs ago I said "I pray every day that they nominate Hillary to run for the Senate. Not even the people of New York are dumb enough to elect her." Words of wisdom my friend... be careful what you ask for because you might get it. I am not saying she will win if she runs in 08. But I AM saying the political graveyard is overflowing with people who underestimated this woman.

[John Lenin]

political graveyard is overflowing with people who underestimated this woman.

You are talking about her husband. She doesn't have half the political savy as Bill and is a real divider.

[samtheman]

This is too small to "doom" her. The MSM will cover this up with all deliberate speed. It does prove, however, that she is politically tone-deaf and that much bigger mistakes are in her future. Inevitable. She's going to make such and ass of herself that no amount of MSM machinations and coverups will allow her to look good. She won't be looking good at the end of a national campaign. I am confident of that.

[jonrick46]

Some voters consider tax cuts as being allowed to have more of their own money. Other voters consider tax cuts as being allowed to have more of the government's money. It's the latter we should be concerned about.

[Light Speed]

Shelby Steele said in the WSJ that it was neither the specific comment nor what came next, but her utter falseness that absolutely DID NOT CLICK with the black audience. I guess there was barely any applause, more like nervous silence! He said (WSJ, 1/23) that unlike Bill, who could present himself as actually empathizing with the "oppressed," Hillary came across as rubbing their noses in their weakness, and they did NOT like it.

It seems Hillary is a controlled smile and eye contact with the crowd for like 20 secs......then the Angry Biatch kicks in until closing.
I think she scares Dems ......they'll be prostrating and supplicating at Al Gore's feet for run in 2008
That is......if they can get him out of the Bhuddist Temple : )