Posted on 12/12/2006 1:03:56 PM PST by Quilla
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate.
DeLay met with conservative bloggers at a weekly lunch meeting hosted by HUMAN EVENTS and the Heritage Foundation. He is making the rounds in Washington to promote his new blog and activism website, TomDeLay.com.
DeLay said he was motivated to start the blog and create the Grassroots Action and Information Network after observing the success of liberal organizations such as MoveOn.org, the Media Fund and Americans Coming Together. He said he hopes to utilize some of the same tools to help Republicans win elections.
It’s this liberal coalition, working in concert with the news media, that will propel Clinton to the White House in 2008, DeLay said. “Hillary will be the next president of the United States because they have built a coalition,” he said.
DeLay also implored conservatives to start digging into Obama’s past. He said Obama’s record in the Illinois Senate was on par with a “Marxist leftist.” Citing defeated U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee, DeLay said Obama was attempting to disguise his liberal views. (Read Amanda Carpenter’s report on Obama and his conflicting rhetoric.)
DeLay named Clinton loyalists Harold Ickes, Sidney Blumenthal, James Carville, Paul Begala and Joe Lockhart as the masterminds behind the left-wing coalition. He said that these groups, more than anything else, contributed to the GOP’s fall this November. “I have never seen a more powerful coalition,” he said.
One such example of the coalition’s power played out precisely as planned in California’s 11th District. Republican Rep. Richard Pombo was toppled after facing an onslaught of attacks from the left.
DeLay said his goal in creating the new organization is to turn ideas into action. He said he will reach out to the diverse coalition of conservative groups and bring them together to rival the coalition built by liberals. Prior to the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, DeLay said he employed a similar strategy that the GOP has gradually abandoned.
One day after launching the new website, DeLay said he’s had 100 people pay the $52 per year to join the Grassroots Action and Information Network.
Is fairly conservative anything like compassionately conservative?
Yeah, Tom. And you know why it worked? Because the GOP had NOTHING that it stood for as a cohesive party. The main message in California was "Vote for the Republicans, so the Dems won't win."
Between that feckless strategy and the lead guy in CA running away from his party as far as he could, the only thing that saved CA from losing more Republican Congressional seats than Pombo's was the fact that we are gerrymandered out the wazoo.
If the GOP doesn't want to get pounded in two years, it would behoove them to put forth a national agenda message along the lines of the Contract with America, and show some indication they mean it, instead of gum flapping. Individual races, run one at a time with a bazillion individual agendas invites defeat in detail, which is how Pombo lost his seat, and we lost both houses: the Dem strategists picked off individuals with precise targeting.
In all honesty, I did not fully realize the impact or potential of the blogosphere until very recently
What hubris. And these are the guys we carried water for?
The media will be fawning all over her and Obama like nothing we have EVER seen before...
We've ALREADY had not one, but TWO television shows trying to tell us how great she would be as President...
And if you think Dems won't pull EVERY vote fraud trick to get her elected, tou're fooling yourself...
Notice you haven't heard ANYTHING in the media for weeks now about "Stolen Elections"???
They are only "Stolen" when Republicans win, no matter how many dead people and illegal aliens vote absentee...
Hey Tom, there's an insect with your name on it.
The traitor's "coalition" can't be matched but it should be tried (for sedition and aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war).
Here are the elements of that "coalition":
"Grassroots" (read "communist activists") internet efforts for logistics and finance.
BSM ("BS Media") for propaganda and coordination with our enemies, foreign and domestic in order to deliver a consistent anti-american message worldwide, followed by polling data to reinforce the message just delivered.
The entire educational system for stripping a generation of Americans of any knowledge of our history that might instill patriotic pride, while erasing moral and ethical underpinnings from which comes the ability to distinguish between good and evil.
A political class more interested in individual power than national survival.
Sorry Tom, don't think $52 a month is gonna offset this.
He also said that his indictment would be shown for the trumped-up case it was and would lead to nothing....
As President, can Hillary pardon Clinton from his impeachment charge?
No but they won't sell business down the river. As far as bedroom issues, the highest courts in the land are fairly conservative as well. Would make sense in light current events for the Presidency to go good cop for a while. Still execute the war in Iraq but be more likeable doing it. Whatever. It's going down so you might as well plan accordingly.
He's wrong.
I doubt either could get elected dog catcher.I'm sick of all the old worn out names coming up as our next Republican savior.
Sorry, I don't get the connection between Art Bell and the Philippines.
Did I miss something?
Tom Delay is a genius. He may even be smarter than me.
They're a shoo in. (gagging as I type that)
Yep that was the sign. They are officially trusted with the highest secrets of the land and that's all the office of President has become. A vetted CIA position. Sorry but again I must ...
And will Republican politicians wage counter attacks now? I suspect they'll just say "Thank you" and walk away so the liberals can read the "kick me" sign on their backs.
DeLay said he’s had 100 people pay the $52 per year to join the Grassroots Action and Information Network.
There's the real point of the comment, "Send me money"
It's worse than you think our illustrious leaders do not read the blogs they do read Mark Steyn or anything of the sort.
I don't know if it's hubris, it might be flat out stupidity.
I dread what is going to happen to our taxes===literally fear it!
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