Posted on 12/20/2007 11:46:09 AM PST by vietvet67
Just back from Iowa, and I've got a theory about why Hillary Clinton has been having a difficult time.
It's because she is the issue.
No politician wants to be the issue and have the debate swirl around them and their foibles. And Hillary is working overtime to make Barack Obama the issue with the whole change-requires-experience argument. But I don't see the pundits, bloggers, radio people and cable hosts sitting around debating Obama's qualifications. They're chattering about Hillary, as they have for 15 years. Even talking about her looks, thanks to Drudge.
Clinton's team, as I reported yesterday, believes the press is holding their woman to a much higher standard than Obama, and some journalists agree.
For most of the year, as HRC's election was depicted as pretty much a done deal, a number of conservative commentators seemed to be making their peace with the prospect. Hillary was more hawkish than her Democratic rivals, more experienced, and had run a surprisingly good campaign, they said. She was, in short, a grownup.
But now that she's hit a rough patch, some of the old anti-Hillary vehemence is surfacing. Take these two reports in National Review, starting with Jonah Goldberg:
"The most enjoyable aspect of watching the HMS Hillary take on water is the prospect that Bill -- and his cult of personality -- will go down with the ship, too. Bill Clinton has been stumping for his wife on the Iowa hustings, framing the election as a referendum on his tenure as president. Last month in Muscatine (during the same speech in which he falsely claimed to have opposed the Iraq war from the beginning), he told the assembled Democrats that HMS Hillary could transport America 'back to the future.' . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, DUH!
There is not one brain cell firing in her camp right now and I love it!
In another Clinton administration VP will be no more than a 2 year sinecure with no significant duties.
Wow — after cruising that link, I feel like I just left an Andrew Dice Clay performance.
electing Hillary (bitch NY) is the exact same as leaving a 2 year old in your back yard with your two pit bulls.
something horrible is gonna happen and it ain’t to the pit bulls
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Actually, that is not a good comparison! Pitbulls don’t ALWAYS attack, they often just act like pets. Hillary, on the other hand, always bites the hand that feeds her.
then I shoulda said .pit bulls discarded from Vicks place
I suggest you start your own thread will all of this but link or add her always debate comment..........”not til the fiscal house is in order”.........
socialism/marxism is her “fiscal responsibility”
In her holiday ad, Hillary shows herself (alone) with a bunch of presents with labels from her campaign slogans...the one that gets the most attention is "universal pre-K." Typical Hillary--it's "for the children" and it's in keeping with the Soviet model of taking the children from their parents as soon as possible to start indoctrinating them early.
So what would happen to Hillary’s VP after two years?
The invisible VP disappears for good. The press forgets who he even is.
It would be BILL AND HILL non-stop 24/7. Rubbing our noses in it.
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