Is It Really the End for Hillary?
Posted on 12/15/2007 10:29:15 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
JOHNSTON, Iowa - Hillary Clinton, who spent the past year as the Democratic presidential front-runner fostering an aura of inevitability, found herself Friday in the humbling position of declaring she won't be knocked out early.
With polls showing Clinton locked in a tough battle in Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses and her once dominant lead in New Hampshire now gone, the former First Lady said she is in the race to stay through Super Duper Tuesday, when more than 20 states including New York and California hold primaries.
"I have always intended to go all the way through this process, all the way through the Feb. 5 states," said Clinton when asked during an interview on Iowa Public Television whether her campaign could withstand a loss in Iowa. "Every single place that there's going to be a caucus or an election between now and Feb. 5, I'm going to contend in."
"I always thought this would get close," said Clinton, now facing a tougher challenge by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "This is what happens in a contested election."
For the first time Friday, Clinton also responded to questions about the resignation of her national co-chairman Bill Shaheen, who stepped down after he suggested Obama may have sold drugs as a teenager.
"I not only disapproved but it did not reflect the campaign that I'm running," Clinton said.
Obama said Friday he's become a target for political attacks because the momentum has turned in his favor.
"The fact that we're up in Iowa and we've now closed the gap in New Hampshire and South Carolina, that means we've got momentum and that means you're a target," Obama said. "What it also means is folks are excited; they're energized. I think people are realizing we've got a chance."
Clinton picked up the endorsement Friday of Rep. Leonard Boswell, a prominent Iowan who has considerable credibility in the farming community, and the backing of New York's 1199 SEIU and 32BJ, the health care and building workers unions.
But the union endorsements can't help Clinton where she needs it most right now - in the earliest voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Out-of-state locals can't compete against the candidate chosen by the unions' chapters in those states - in this case, John Edwards.
She sounds like she’s thinking of dropping out after Super Tues. This does not sound like confidence.
I don't miss having to scroll through her posts.
I would not count her out until after the convention.
Good observation about her Stalin like ways, take her Health Care plan where she decides who is worthy of saving.
I certainly hope people get over her.
Praying for the “You won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore” screech!! PRAYING.
There may be some hope here. Maybe she’s being just as honest about this vow as she is about everything else....
This may all be drama on her part.
I also can’t imagine the dims here in NH voting for anyone but Hillary. She is God-like to them as is shaheen.
Florida and Michigan will be admitted as last second delegations chosen independently of the non sanctioned illegal primaries. Hand picked delegates will choose Clinton.
How’s that for a conspiracy?
Mean while outside the hall, there will be riots of disapproval and future Bill Clintons/Eleanor Clifts will couple on rough concrete, reminiscent of the ‘68 debacle in Chicago.
This gives me a warm fuzzy feeling... :)
That’s OK. Quite tolerable, Gritch Shrillery.
We prefer to QUIT YOU after you’re nominated, anyway.
Be sure your sins will find you out, Shrillery.
There is a God in His Heaven . . . He can out you worse than you ever imagined . . . and on prime time.
LOL
Good link...I’m still saddened that Mia T got the can tied to her here on Free Republic.
You can find Mia & her creations on YouTube.
Let’s hope she doesn’t drop out too soon. In fact, I hope both the camps spend the next couple of months in mortal combat. The more they tear at each other, the weaker the eventual nominee will be. Imagine how easy it wll be for the RNC to recycle the ads that BO and the bitch will run against each other.
Hmmm... Is that the “fat lady” I hear clearing her throat and warming up? ... Oh, my mistake, just Al Gore choking on his own words as the GW / global-tax movement crumbles around him.
If Hillary is chosen in a "smoke-filled" room, despite Obama winning a majority of the delegates, the Democratic Party would devolve into civil war. It would be the '68 Chicago Convention all over again. It would be fun to watch.
PIAPS quit? Not hardly. Nobody around them has even died yet (so far anyway). She’s just getting started.
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