Posted on 12/13/2007 7:56:28 PM PST by CellPhoneSurfer
Here's more Clinton campaign Kremlinology because, well, it's just so much fun. The following is total speculation, based not on any secret info I have but instead on simple pattern recognition from campaigns past.
Here is what is going on inside the campaign:
1.) Kill the Idiot Who Came Up With This Strategy. Clinton campaign chief Mark Penn is not a shy personality. He's ruffled mountains of feathers the wrong way. Now Hillary's poll numbers are bombing and the long knives are out. I'd be more sympathetic to Penn if Hillary's messaging and strategy had not been so bloody awful. And I'm not piling on late; I've cried loser on this campaign for a year.
2.) His and Her consultants. There has always been a fault line in Clinton world between the boys and girls. Hillary's crowd is running her race and the Bill crowd is sniping from the sidelines. That sniping has gone from the odd rifle shot to constant machine gunning. I smell a whiff of Cajun spices in the air ...
3.) Iowa Hates national. In every presidential primary campaign there is great tension between the national headquarters and local state operations. The nationals arrogantly try to micro manage the states and don't trust the rubes in the states to understand the Big Picture that you must live in the HQ city to understand. The state staffers fume at the national campaign's lack of understanding of local politics and think the national campaign staff are too busy bloviating behind the scenes to elite reporters to do anything actually useful for the campaign. Generally the states are right, but the national campaign has the candidate's ear and therefore the power.
In Hillaryland, I notice that national campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle has been sent out to Iowa to take hands-on control from famed Iowa organizer (though non-Iowa resident for the last few years) Theresa Vilmain. Which I decode as: Vilmain and Solis Doyle have been fighting like cats and, well, cats for a long time and the Iowa Clinton staff hates the national staff. Solis Doyle has won the fight and moved to Iowa to crush dissent and show the local hayseeds how it's done. No more of this losing to Barack crap. But since Solis Doyle showed up, things have gotten worse for Hillary in Iowa. Look for Team Vilmain to make a counter-grab at control in the critical last two weeks.
4.) Donors Going Ape. In every campaign, the big donors secretly think they should be running everything instead of just giving money. They assume that the great fortune-making insight they brought to the chopsticks industry obviously qualifies them to run a campaign. So at the first hint of trouble, the big money types grab the phone and raise Hell with the campaign staff. Hillary's large and forceful donor world is anything but shy, and I am certain the phone lines in and out of the Hillary campaign are on fire with hoots, howls, recrimination, and near panic. I'm sure there is at least one huge donor-driven coup being plotted to save the campaign per point Number Two above.
5.) Candidate losing confidence. Hillary is smart: She knows things are tipping. But what to do? No easy fix in sight and a staff massacre is hard cheese and no guarantee of an improvement. Difficult days. Hard choices. Not unlike being president. If she can weather this meltdown successfully, she'll be another big step along the way.
Run Hillaryous Run!
The Toe Sucker would love that. Almost every column he writes, he is angling to get back into power as somebody’s right-hand man, he doesn’t much care whose.
He doesn’t really want to be a columnist. He wants to be a power broker.
But Hillary is the one who fired him for sucking toes. Is she likely to ask him back? The clintons habitually use people up and throw them away. How many do they bring back again?
Bill was also politically quite smart, whereas Hillary is in way over her head - and it shows.
You can’t fool the people forever.
Ok, who threw a bucket of water on Hillary? She’s melting!
The primary obstacle her campaign faces is convincing Americans that she is not who she appears to be. A tall task since she is a lousy actor and can’t even spell sincerity, much less fake it competently.
Nonetheless, if she can get the nomination, most Dims will hold their noses and vote for her. Says little for her and even less for the Dim voters.
The son David Rodham Gergan never had.
“...When you have to pretend that you believe that the Constitution actually matters while in fact you believe its language to be an obstacle to “social progress,” your language is not going to be as confident.
They despise the language of the Consitution but they can’t openly say it, so they are forced to call their organizaiton “the American Constitution Society.” They must playact. They can never, ever say what they mean. That’s why they sound unsure of themselves.
The lie, for all its power, always trembles in the face of truth....”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862843/posts?page=8#8
I don’t think Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Jim McDougal or the travel office people are coming back either.
I thought Morris was the “right-hand man” for the Huckster ..??
Knowing Morris and Bill are still on good speaking terms .. this makes me a little nervous about supporting Huck.
Mrs. William J. Clinton, of whom you would know nothing had she not been married to an impeached President, was also in charge of suppressing Mr. Clinton's many victims. She was a rapist's enabler.
A vote for this woman, Mrs. William J. Clinton, is actually a vote to return her husband to the White House. Why would any sane voter want to enable that?
Bill O’Really had Barney Frank’s sister, Mary Anne Marsh, on his program tonight, Thursday. Barney Frank’s sister, Mary Anne Marsh, normally appears smug and very resolved. Tonight, Barney Frank’s sister, Mary Anne Marsh, seemed very anxious and nervous. There is definitely worry in the Hilarious world. Once they’re on the gallop, Hilarious may well let loose with a Howard Dean-ism.
The killer question: “Mrs. Clinton, are you against the XXII Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?”
I think Dick Morris STILL works for the Clintons....yes, Hillary also.
Mary Ann Marsh is NOT Barney Frank’s sister, the odious ANN LEWIS is and looks like Barney in half drag.
Mary ANN Marsh is LAWAYS nervous.
“My Mother never understood the irony of calling me a ‘son-of-a-bitch”
LOL! That reminds me way back in high school a hooligan used the word “uncouth” and a girl asked him where he learned that word. “Oh, that’s what my mother calls me.”
BillyJeff. The First Bitch. Coming soon to a theater near you!!
That's about all we'd have to laugh about while losing this country and our rights even faster than they're being eroded now.
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