Posted on 01/25/2008 11:47:32 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
Despite Hillary Clinton’s surprising win in the New Hampshire primary, discontent remains the order of the day in “Hillaryland,” according to an article in the liberal New Republic.
“For all of Team Hillary’s gifts, it is not known as a happy group,” Michelle Cottle writes in the magazine.
“‘I’ve never seen a campaign where everyone feels so bad about themselves,’ says one campaign staffer, echoing others.”
That feeling was palpable the morning after Clinton’s defeat in the Iowa caucuses, when a “sad and sorry Team Hillary” gathered for a conference call with the candidate, Cottle relates.
After Hillary came on the line, message guru Mandy Grunwald tried to spur conversation by asking staffers if they had any thoughts. No one spoke. After a pregnant pause, Hillary began talking for a few minutes about the campaign. Again, silence.
An angry Hillary finally snarled: “This has been very helpful talking to myself” — and hung up.
Following Iowa, rumors began circulating that there would be a major shakeup in the Clinton campaign staff. Then came the New Hampshire win. But discord remains in Hillaryland, the New Republic article disclosed.
The unease has been spurred in large part by the “fear-inducing, high-handed” leadership of the advisors known as “the Five” – Grunwald, campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, top strategist Mark Penn, policy chief Neera Tanden, and communications director Howard Wolfson.
The five, called by Cottle the “devout members of Hillaryland,” have kept “an iron grip on everything from ideas to access.”
The staffer deemed most likely to be replaced after Iowa was Penn, according to Cottle.
“The reasons are legion: his high profile; his right-of-center politics; his myopic focus on issues; his dismissal of the need for Hillary to get personal and address her likability problem; his unusual dual role as top strategist and pollster; and, of course, his famously rough manner.”
New Hampshire brought Penn a reprieve — and not everyone in the Clinton campaign was happy about that.
“So strong was the desire for change,” Cottle writes, “that the Granite State miracle, while obviously a godsend, left some staffers deflated as it became clear that the planned overhaul had been derailed.”
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Is this a foreshadowing of what America's gonna feel like under her?
I think so!
Amen to that! Before her first 4 years are up most Americans will be getting a first hand experience of the worker’s paradise that the 50’s Soviet Union was.
But if the American people elect her we deserve everything she does to us.
“I’ve never seen a campaign where everyone feels so bad about themselves,”
Indicia of having a conscience? Never been a problem for Hill or Bill. The irony is that liberals do things that have evil consequences, then they go to therapy and learn how to blame their parents for it. Remember how Bill’s philandering was blamed on his mother and grandmother? If liberals didn’t learn how to suppress the occasional pang of decency, they’d all slash their throats.
Uh...different candidate?
Just a thought.
The broad with the glasses in the front row right side is
Barney Frank’s sister. She’s normal, NOT.
Like Lavrenti Beria in the Lubyanka.
One upshot of a Hildabeast presidency ... since she *loathes* men in uniform, it'll probably be a while until she gets a proper NKVD together to start rounding up the enemies of the people. Let's hope that Gen. Pace or Gen. Petraeus has a folder in his office marked 'Coup d'Etat' if things get too out of hand ...
“so when is the mass resignation?”
There’s a line forming .... at Ft. Marcy Park.
(I added Hillary)
LOL - thanks. And I’ll bet “I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs” is just about what Hillary was shrieking this morning.
Acting surprised to see unhappy liberals is like expressing shock when snakes bite their handlers. It’s in the DNA, baby...get over it.
Ha-Ha! Wonder who the boys on South Park are going to support?
Blast from the past bump!
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bumpity uppity!
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