This Clinton machine is a tighter ship

LA Times ^ | 12-31-06 | Stephen Braun

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[Always Independent]

I'm not so sure about her ability to win. For one, if the clintons' were so confident of her candidacy, why didn't she she drop out of the race for senator and barnstorm towards the next election? I think they have strong doubts about her chances of winning the nomination and furthermore thepresidency in 08. Without at least having a senators seat, the clintons would most likely slip into being irrelevant. She is the most polarizing figure in recent history. Even more so than her husband. The time has come for this country to have a true uniter that can truly get votes across party lines.

Yes I do suspect that they have strong doubt

[kempo]

You think Bill was a love fest by the MSM? Just wait until Hillary runs. It's going to be the most sickening thing you ever lived through.

God have mercy on us.

[advance_copy]

Yep, it will be sickening. But remember, Bill Clinton never got 50% of the vote. It takes a third party candidate for a Clinton to be elected President. And the conservative part of America, which is the majority, is never going to fall for that again.

[doug from upland]

Well, we are just going to have to disrupt that schedule with depositions.

[Carl LaFong]

Regrettably,the "taking things away from you for the common good" theme would appeal to a lot of voters so long conditioned to the entitlement mentality.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Ping to this post, it has more about what I was trying to remember about Hillary's behavior on Nixon's impeachment investigation.

Thanks, CyberAnt. Great timing! :-)

[bannie]

In a live interview on CNN's "Late Edition," Gore defended the White House's handling of the files and said a policy will soon be in place to prevent anyone there from having access to FBI materials.

"We are going to make sure new guidelines are further adhered to so something like this never happens again," Gore said from his farm in Carthage, Tennessee.

Well, if this isn't an admission!

Also, "Well, WE got the records, but don't you worry: We'll make sure no one else will get their grimey little hands on them."

[pinz-n-needlez]

And your first point shows up the media inaccuracy with this...

Hillary certainly did not run a tight ship or do a good job on her Health Care plan. Given all of the time spent on the lead up to it, and the amount of time, $$$, resources devoted to it, any high school government student would have seen that it was a crap plan.

Hillary also spends $$$ like a drunken sailor on leave. (Notice how I stayed with the metaphor? LOL) She is a lousy manager if she can set a budget and stick to it, or find people with those skills to run her operation. How much $$$ did her Senate campaign spend on flowers, for goodness sake?

The smartest lawyer in America flunked the DC Bar Exam. Her intellectual skills go downhill from there. About the only thing she does well is being an arrogant ego-maniac and rhyming with witch.

[Irene Adler]

"You think Bill was a love fest by the MSM? Just wait until Hillary runs. It's going to be the most sickening thing you ever lived through."

Look how hard they twisted themselves in knots trying to make algore and then lurch look normal (but with oh-so-superior intelligence and accomplishment, of course).

Is anyone old enough to remember Life Magazine's drooling love affair with Jack/Jackie and even Bobbie/Ethel and Teddy/Joan. Hllary will never have to answer a single serious question. The superior intelligence thing has already been done on her for years, and all that remains is the humanizing. Voters whose memories extend backward about all of two weeks will go for it, and, with the assistance of however much vote fraud it takes in urban areas, the electoral votes of the biggest-population states will be secured, and presto! Hillary wins! There are plenty of powerful people (and all of their toadies) ready and willing to do whatever it takes to elect her. Obama is not a danger to her at all; he will be a very useful and valuable running mate.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Got a source for that prediction?

[Irene Adler]

"....why didn't she she drop out of the race for senator and barnstorm towards the next election?

Why does anyone ever expect a sitting Senator (or other significant office holder for that matter) to drop out of his/her present office to run for President? Name a single successful campaign where that has been done. You lose face and clout when you are no longer in office (Guiliani is a partial exception to this, but even he has grown somewhat stale while out of office for so long). Resigning a current office does not help you win anything. (Remember what a big boost it gave to the Dole campaign. Not.)

[CyberAnt]

You're very welcome. Another tid-bit .. when Hillary was trying to impeach Nixon, she submitted it was not legal for Nixon to have outside counsel. However, when it was her husband, she DEMANDED he have outside counsel.

Always and ever .. the rules only apply to her when they favor her .. and this is typically how the left operates.

[Txsleuth]

Thanks ...and I agree with your assessment about her LACK of skills..

I think WE have to quit thinking of her as she is portrayed by the MSM...

She has NO skills that I have ever seen...at anything.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Oh, I fear the Clintons alright. Hillary as President would be just about the worst thing that could happen to this country. I'd be tempted to take another 9/11 attack rather than have Hillary.

But I still think the public has seen enough of the Clintons in action to know better. {diety} I hope so. Their administration was rocked with more indictments, more obviously illegal activities, more underhanded, back-room deals, and frankly IMO, more stupidity than any other administration since Nixon. In fact, in a lot of ways they were worse than Watergate.

If I were a campaign manager up against Hillary, I'd keep it simple. I'd simply keep reminding the public about all the illegal activities of the last Clinton administration, the higher taxes, the military cuts resulting in our current strained situation, the utter failure of any kind of cohesive foreign policy, the "follow the polls" mentality and complete lack of leadership.

In short, I'd go "negative" right from the start and in a big, big way. I'd make her sound so unfit and personally repulsive that no-one would consider her. I'd make it the ugliest Presidential campaign anyone had ever seen. Then, even if by some miracle she did win, her administration would be so tainted by the campaign that she'd never get anything done from her "agenda."

Mean? Certainly. Ugly? No-doubt. Effective? Maybe. For me, it's not just that she's a dem. It's her socialist, big government leanings and all the other ideas and ideals she professes. I think they are exactly and completely wrong for this Country. I also question her personal character, morals, and integrity - I'm not convinced she has any.

[pinz-n-needlez]

It would be interesting to watch someone research and pummel her with her 'true' work experience... not as Mrs. Bill, but as a Hill staffer, and chairman of the Legal Services Committee (not sure the exact title) during Carter's administration.

She led a staff on a lot of activist issues. When Reagan came into office, she spent down every penny in the budget, and there was some sort of kerfluffle over turning over the files.

Dang, I'm going to have go find my Hillary books again, aren't I? :-(

[pinz-n-needlez]

We're going to have to research, document and publicize that, point by point!

[kcvl]

As a lobbyist for the United Automobile Workers, Howard G. Paster had played a leading role in negotiating the loan bailout for the Chrysler Corporation. He kept Eastern Airlines flying a few more years by negotiating tax breaks for the carrier. And representing the oil industry, he helped soften environmental provisions in the 1991 Clean Air Act.

[Jimmy Valentine]

You left one of the most sinister, personages off the list; Harold Ickes lawyer, veteran fixer, money raiser who has some very very shady connections in the union movement.

Also Sidney Blumenthal will be working the smear machine for Hillary.Probably should throw in Ira Magaziner, her organizational guru (remember Hillary care?) who will probably dust off her health care plan to shove up our,......well you know if she is elected.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I believe you and many here continue to underestimate the criminality of Bill & Hillary. Hillary is only going to run if Bill and others can guarantee her a win.

[kcvl]

Just what this country needs, ANOTHER CLINTON CRIME GANG running the country!!! Eight years of CROOKS & LIARS wasn't enough?!!!

NEERA TANDEN

Legislative Director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). Before that Neera was the senior vice president for Domestic Policy for the Center for American Progress. Neera was the issues director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She has also served as the senior policy advisor to the Chancellor of the New York City Schools, Harold Levy. Prior to that she was the deputy campaign manager and policy director for the senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Neera also served in the White House under President Clinton as the senior policy advisor to the First Lady and associate director in the Domestic Policy Council. She graduated from UCLA and received her law degree from Yale Law School.

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Tanden began her political ascent by volunteering for then Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis’ presidential campaign in 1988. At age 18, she was a precinct leader and she encouraged all of the young people in the audience to get similarly involved no matter how young they were. Tanden went on to be a press aide for the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1992 and this enabled her to work for the Clinton administration. Before joining the DCCC she was deputy campaign manager for the Hillary Clinton for Senate race, where she also helped coordinate policy for the then-candidate.

Tanden addressed many questions, including queries on balancing family and political life as a South Asian-American woman. “Well the White House is just a pressure-filled environment for anyone. There is so much scrutiny. Hillary’s office, where I worked, was very supportive of women in this balancing act. She was a mother too and that made her very compassionate about such issues... very few people left Hillary’s staff.”