Posted on 01/07/2008 7:26:42 AM PST by Personal Responsibility
TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ET
Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!
"She can't take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada," laments one top campaign insider. "If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn't want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats."
Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary "could soon be out."
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Key players in Clinton's inner circle are said to be split. James Carville is urging her to fight it out through at least February and Super Tuesday, where she has a shot at thwarting Barack Obama in a big state. But others close to the former first lady now see no possible road to victory, sources claim.
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Friendly note to Obama. Do NOT accept hilldog as your VP.
—no, they won’t-—
You go girl!
Another ploy, they believe the world can not survive without them.
Congressman Billybob
Drudge, but Admin Moderator had to do the work
To quote George Jetson with his twisted up fingers...
“These four hour days are killing me!”
I just don’t see a Clinton giving up that easily. I think Drudge jumped the gun on this one.
Just as a note, this is the 3rd thread dupe for this.
Not in the least. At the risk of sounding racist, which I am most definitely not, I do not believe the American public is ripe for a black president yet. But I’m not discounting the possibility given some of the populist candidates that the GOP is pushing.
What is that saying about HELL and a woman scorned?
Another buzz word she kept using during the debate was Bush. None of the other candidates used Bush on the scale she did. Her anti-Bush strategy is so old and very obvious. Even the rats are tired.
NEVER trust anything coming from ANY source associated with the Clintoons.
This has to be coming from the Clinton Camp. She is getting trounced by Obama and cannot take another second place.
What they are doing is changing the expectations again. If everyone thinks she is going to withdraw from the campaign, there are then no expectations. When she comes in second or third they can then say she exceeded expectations and is now the comeback kid. No way she will go away quietly before the February Super Primary.
“She doesn’t want the Clinton brand” What the heck is the Clinton Brand?
Is it something like when I think of soda, I think coke.
You could be right. Can't restrain my glee over Hillary's decline, but at the same time, I've had this nagging little "Be careful what you wish for" thought going on.
OTOH, I can't see Obama's sustaining the kind of giddy cult-of-personality worship he's enjoying now, through all the months up until November. A lot of Dims are permanently deluded, but most independents, I think, will sober up.
And lo, I just heard Pat Buchanan say exactly the same thing (on the John Gambling radio show). Pat's a shrewd analyst so I have hope he (and I) am right about Obama.
She doesn’t want to damage the Clinton brand?
hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!1GAG
Now, just go away.
the Clinton “brand” damaged?
what a yuk
Does she think she’s gonna try again in 4 years?
not likely
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