Posted on 01/31/2008 6:18:20 AM PST by RogerFGay
The analysis is about the race. I don’t care one way or another how you feel about Hillary. I’m not trying to sell you anything. The point is about how many (more than some I think) feel about Hillary — in a way that will motivate more people right and center to vote to defeat her.
Bringing in Hitler’s name is dumb—if Hillary had a tenth of Hitler’s oratorical power, she’d be truly dangerous. If the Clintons manage to crush Obama, the MSM will have seven or eight months to convince the sheeple that a sow’s ear really is a silk purse, and whichever RINO gets the Republican nomination may see millions of usually-Republican-voting voters stay home, even when the consequence will be a Clinton restoration.
Well, you have a reasonable point. On the Hitler thing, I think you’re targeting the messanger just now. But that’s ok if you feel it’s wrong. But the other thing - I can imagine just what you’re saying. CNN etc. will get a lot more advertising revenue in a close race. They wouldn’t allow one candidate to fall hopelessly behind if they could possibly help it. But I still think that the more they push Hillary, the more it will motivate the right - to the point that I’m pretty sure that most of the people vowing not to vote for McCain would show up to vote against Clinton. The stats have been pretty clear - people voting against one candidate rather than for the person who actually gets their vote are a very powerful split voting bloc. I believe Hillary would make more people mad enough to vote against her than John McCain would anger people to vote against him.
The DUI story 5 days before the 2000 election caused millions of evangelicals to stay home, rather than vote for Bush, and that almost gave Gore the victory. There are so many people now who don't really like Romney but are voting for him to stop McCain, or who don't really like McCain but are voting for him to stop Romney, that whoever wins will have a hard time getting the enthusiastic backing of large parts of the Republican base.
The pubs know that Hillary pisses people off big time and they’re ready to cash in on it. They even made the movie linked in the article. If Hillary is the Dem. nominee, I am very confident that emotions will be very high and there will be a solid anti-Hillary turn-out (assuming ... well, you know politics ... assuming no big bananna peal slip, etc. ... like if there’s proof McCain works for the KGB or something).
“The “strong” Hillary Clinton would fail quickly as an anonymous user in an average internet discussion and would probably be banned from further participation as well.”
I wonder how many times she’s been zotted here?
That ancient lib reporter is what comes to mind, but I’m not posting her picture.
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