Posted on 01/06/2008 4:32:38 AM PST by billorites
Once again, Hillary Clinton is the victim of a vast conspiracy. This time, it’s a vast left-wing conspiracy.
How over the hill are Hillary and Bill when 70 percent of the caucus-goers in Iowa voted thumbs-down on her Thursday night? And now it appears she’ll get kicked to the curb again in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Ouch. As Bill would say, better put some ice on that, baby.
This is a great weekend for those of us who never liked the first generation of trailer-park trash from Hope. And now what goes around comes around. The Clintons always fancied themselves so much cooler than those crusty old World War II Republicans, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole. Now the Clintons are the dinosaurs. Did you see the people standing behind Hillary in Iowa on Thursday night during her concession speech?
Wesley Clark, Madeleine Albright, Terry McAuliffe - it looked like a new exhibit at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. The Clinton theme song has gone from “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” to “Yesterday.”
There is nothing more out than last season’s fad. Wait 20 years, everything comes back. Just don’t try to wear it to the cotillion this year. But that’s exactly what Hillary has been doing, and Friday night she was booed when she told the 3,000 Democrat hacks in Milford, N.H., that she would always be working for “change for you.”
Keep using that line, Hillary, and you will be working for change. Spare change.
If they only had more time, the Clintons could dig up dirt, some real mud, to throw at Obama. But this yearthey’re reduced to using ham-handed fools like Billy Shaheen and Bob Kerrey to peddle half-baked lies about Muslims and cocaine dealing. And now the clock works against them. It was the Clintons who wanted to front-load everything, to hold those early caucuses in Nevada and then get all the primaries over with. There’s an old saying: Be careful what you wish for.
You know a campaign is in trouble when the newspaper stories are full of phrases that are being used this weekend to describe Hillary’s campaign:
“Pointing fingers . . . second-guessing . . . sharpen the message . . . old hands . . . turmoil . . . question her strategy . . . infighting . . . top-heavy . . . shouting . . . missed opportunities . . . series of conference calls. . . .”
Now they’re stressing Hillary’s “experience.” Talk about running on empty.
Obama and Huckabee aren’t running campaigns, as someone noted Friday, they’re running movements.
Which is why a new word has suddenly entered this year’s political lexicon: “secular.” As in, “secular Republicans,” or, more generally, “secular voters.” Non-moonbats, in other words. For the GOP, it means voters for whom snakes are not part of their Sunday-morning religious services. For the Democrats, it means voters who don’t believe that 9/11 was a Bush-Cheney-Halliburton plot.
Another irony here: The Clintons were the first politicians to realize how dumbed-down the American electorate had become. It was Bill who figured out that even if Abe Lincoln was right, and you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, all you really need to fool is 49 percent, at least as long you can keep Ross Perot in the race.
Now, though, they’re angry because the voters are throwing them over for the new kid in town, the snake-oil salesman with an even smoother sales pitch.
As entertaining as this train-wreck is for Republicans, they should remember what the Germans did during World War I. They got the bright idea of sending Lenin back to Russia in a sealed railroad car, to sow revolution and bring down the Tsar. Short-term, a brilliant move by the Germans, long-term, not so hot.
Listen to what the Clinton people are saying about Barack and tell me it doesn’t sound like Tom Reilly’s minions talking about Deval Patrick in 2006:
“Everyone underestimated this conflagration,” one Clintonite told The Politico.
Now, in Massachusetts, we have a governor who believes in hope and opportunity. Just not snowplowing.
And Hillary is reduced to complaining about Iowa. She loves New Hampshire because “you’re not disenfranchised if you work at night.”
Poor Hillary. She’s forgotten that Clinton voters don’t work, period, let alone the second shift. Another sign of a dying dynasty, when you forget who your base is.
This is fun, pour another drink. We can all worry about the snow drifts in the morning.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How about everyone wait until we get past real primary states that don’t have open primaries?
- and that have more than 2 or so electoral votes.
Hillary will stand over the bodies of these pretenders come February 6th.
I didn't listen to the debates. They are worthless. But I had them on in the background and at one point I think I heard the word "change" about 30 times in 3 minutes. All I could think of was a pile of nickles, dimes and quarters.
“those of us who never liked the first generation of trailer-park trash from Hope. “
Great quote, pretty much sizes up the Clintons perfectly
Good job
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
this is funny!
Now that Chucklebee, that could be a different matter altogether. Glib tongued flimflam man from Arkansas. What is it about people from Arkansas anyway? A whopper a minute keeps them guessing.
that’s too much!
She’s selling, but nobody’s buying. Sounds like a marketing failure to me, but it could also have something to do with the product.
You’re right. I believe that these initial results mean little. The big states will bring forward a different type of political warfare; it should be interesting.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
She's like Slick Willie, without all the slickness.
It pissed her off, I thought Edwards would turn to stone after that cold glaring brief stare down.
This could been her Howard Dean moment.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
She’s like Slick Willie, without all the slickness.
excellent observation....much truth.
The problem is the Clintons are reading the '92 Playbook as prophesy, instead of history. That is the problem with writing your own biography before you are done doing useful work. You tend to look at everything that happened as inevitable, and forget that 99% of it was random chance, and you benefited when you happened to be the right person, in the right place, looking in the right direction, at the right time. Other folks who were not so lucky are flipping burgers, and nobody reads their biographies.
The hazard is that if you convince yourself it was inevitable in 1992, you begin to think it will be inevitable in 2008, as well. There is no reason this should be so. Bill Clinton in 1992 was lightning in a bottle. Hillary! is trying to capture that same lightning, but she is not young and agile and fresh as Bill was in 1992. She is burdened by 20 years of history, much of it unpleasant. She cannot try to run the same kind of campaign and win.
Obama can promise change because he looks like an agent of change. When Hillary! tries to promise change, she just winds up looking foolish. If she were really going to change something, it would have been changed long ago. Her natural postition is to be the stable and experienced voice of the status quo. If voters want change, they will not want her. There a 300 Million Americans who will not be elected President in 2008, and it looks like Hillary Clinton will be one of them.
or the willie.
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