Clinton pins '08 hopes on Texas rebound [Shrillary on the Ropes!!]

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 02/12/08 | BETH FOUHY and JIM KUHNHENN

[Enchante]

EL PASO, Texas - Trying to overcome a string of losses and a staff shake-up, Hillary Rodham Clinton sought new energy Tuesday night from a boisterous crowd of about 12,000 in a state she hopes will provide a rebound in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clinton, whose rallies had been overshadowed by rival Barack Obama's huge crowds, arrived at the packed University of Texas at El Paso basketball arena as voters were giving Obama victories in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

But her sights were set on the March 4 Texas and Ohio primaries and on President Bush.

"I'm tested, I'm ready, let's make it happen," she yelled to cheering supporters.

She slipped into a "you all" and criticized Bush, the former Texas governor.

"There's a great saying in Texas," she said, "all hat and no cattle. Well after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and lot more cattle."

[Enchante]

Shrillary is reeling from 8 straight losses to Obama Hussein - she races off to Texas to try to jump-start her dying campaign..... Her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager have resigned or been fired..... top Clintonista 'fixer' of FosterGate infamy has been brought in to try to save the Hildebeast. What a night!!

[Enchante]

I heard part of her rant in El Paso (on TV, fortunately I was 1,000 miles away from the Shrildebeast). It was truly pathetic, but she does rant like a true Shrillary.

[icwhatudo]

HIDE!

[Enchante]

Shrillary had to be in Texas as her mounting losses were announced because she is desperate to try to change the subject away from her collapsing campaign..... it is fun to watch the implosion of the once ‘inevitable’ nominee for the Demagogues, although I certainly do not look forward to the choices remaining to voters in ‘08.

[pangenesis]

not gonna happen. Barry will win Hawaii and Wisconsin, and shillary will have to live with for the next 4 weeks with “loser” painted on her forehead. By the time Texas gets here, it’ll be all over.

not sure I’ll be celebrating though, is obama really any better?

[pawdoggie]

Shrillary is reeling from 8 straight losses to Obama Hussein - she races off to Texas to try to jump-start her dying campaign..... Her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager have resigned or been fired..... top Clintonista 'fixer' of FosterGate infamy has been brought in to try to save the Hildebeast. What a night!!

Don't worry. The "superdelegates" will save her. The Democrats won't send the black guy to the back of the bus, they'll just throw him under it.

[pawdoggie]

Shrillary is reeling from 8 straight losses to Obama Hussein - she races off to Texas to try to jump-start her dying campaign..... Her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager have resigned or been fired..... top Clintonista 'fixer' of FosterGate infamy has been brought in to try to save the Hildebeast. What a night!!

Don't worry. The "superdelegates" will save her. The Democrats won't send the black guy to the back of the bus, they'll just throw him under it.

[doug from upland]

[Enchante]

No, Obama Hussein is definitely not better, but I do want to see the CLintonista machine booted into obscurity. Obama Hussein is if anything even more of a doctrinaire socialist, whereas Shrillary at least pretends to be more open to reason (but only when she wants to fool the voters). Obama Hussein has only gotten this far because he campaigns with vague platitudes and no one really demands any content. If/when the public knows what a diehard socialist he really is he should not be able to command anything close to a majority, except of course that the Rs are in such pathetic condition that who knows??? Ronald Reagan could win his biggest landslide ever against either Obama Hussein or Shrillary, but of course we do not have that option!!!

[Lexinom]

I was 1,000 miles away

Did you hear her shrill screeching?

[AmericanExceptionalist]

There is a part of me--the purely strategic part--that feels it would be better for Hillary to get the nomination, since she would probably be easier to defeat than the charismatic Obama, given her very high negatives. Moreover, I think Obama would be likely to govern from further to the left (especially on matters of foreign policy) than Hillary would.

And yet...

Somehow, I still cannot help but take pleasure in Hillary's travails. She obviously feels that she is entitled to the nomination--and even to the presidency itself. So despite my very deep reservations about Obama (to put it as kindly as possible), I am so happy to see Hillary getting her comeuppance!

[Lexinom]

And when it happens, that is going to be SOME SHOW. Grab the popcorn!

[CutePuppy]

When Democrats go for “change” they usually nominate someone [relatively] young and/or unknown - JFK, Carter, Bill Clinton, Obama...

When Republicans nominate, they usually go for the “old” - Ford, Bush, Dole, McCain...

“Sad and pathetic”...

[fhayek]

Don't worry. The "superdelegates" will save her. The Democrats won't send the black guy to the back of the bus, they'll just throw him under it.

The Democrats believe in the voice of the common man, unless of course, the common man contradicts the wishes of THE PARTY.

[Enchante]

Yes I do worry as well that Obama Hussein could prove a more formidable candidate because of Shrillary’s negatives — but I do so want the Clintonistas to be sent packing, and I do think that Obama could be defeated, if not in ‘08 then ‘12 — but I’m sure not looking forward to what such a leftist could do in the WH. Both Shrillary and Obama are hard-core socialists posing as more moderate for electoral purposes only. I’m not sure that Obama would be any more likely to be able to ram through a lot of policy than Shrillary though.

[pangenesis]

Ronald Reagan could win his biggest landslide ever against either Obama Hussein or Shrillary, but of course we do not have that option!!!

Maybe we need to get some of those embreyonic stem cells, and make a reagan clone. Heck, we could make a whole army! Neatly solve this difficult issue.

[Pebcak]

I heard second hand, but reliably, that the Chairman of the Hidalgo Democratic party was not invited unless he paid $1,000 to attend an appearance of her highness.

This was held at a local, let us just say, very, very rich guy’s house. Several times AF1 came to the Valley for receptions at his home.

Anyway, it didnt’t and isn't’t sitting very well with the Dem’s down here.

[P-Marlowe]

Looks like Upland.