Posted on 02/12/2008 11:11:45 PM PST by xtinct
For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival.
more stories like this. She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
Top Democrats, including some inside Hillary Clinton's campaign, say many party leaders -- the so-called super delegates -- won't hesitate to ditch the former New York senator for Barack Obama if her political problems persist. Their loyalty to the first couple is build on shaky ground.
"If (Barack) Obama continues to win .... the whole raison d'etre for her campaign falls apart and we'll see people running from her campaign likes rats on a ship," said Democratic strategist Jim Duffy, who is not aligned with either campaign.
The rats started looking for clear waters when Obama won Iowa, narrowly lost New Hampshire and trounced Clinton in South Carolina before holding his own in last week's Super Tuesday contests. He won Virginia's primary Tuesday and stood to claim Maryland and the District of Columbia to extend his consecutive win streak to eight.
Obama has won 21 of 33 contests, earning the majority of delegates awarded on the basis of election results. The remaining 796 delegates are elected officials and party leaders whose votes are not tied to state primaries or caucuses; thus, they are dubbed "superdelegates."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Payback is a female dog.
This proves without a doubt... Shakespeare was so damn wrong!
That Bill. All class.
She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or shes out, said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. The campaign is starting to come to terms with that. Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view...Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately go with the flow, in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.
He wasn’t wrong about revenge being best when served up cold!
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning, it smells like victory!
the so-called super delegates -- won't hesitate to ditch the former New York senator
Former? Did I miss something?
running from her campaign likes rats on a ship
Don't rats usually run OFF a ship? And I've never heard of rats "looking for clear waters"
Maybe it's just me...
Sounds like Hillary will be relying on non-democratic means to obtain the Presidency.
Nothing new here.
“revenge is a dish best served with cold cuts” Tony Soprano
Itâs so cool to have Hillary losing the black vote just like the Republican always do. It’s still sad that most of the blacks vote as a group instead as individuals, in the country that produced Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Clarence Thomas, ect.
So according to this article there are currently 396 “super-delegates” uncommitted...... and that’s a pretty dramatic sudden swing if a lot of them decide that Obama Hussein is the future nominee and many/most decide to come out for Obama..... if Shrillary and Bill could have locked down any of those 396 by now they would have done so, as the Democrat hack notes. It could be that Obama has a lot of dry powder ready when he wins a couple more primaries, or certainly after March 4 if he sweeps..... there may well be a stampede of those remaining “super-delegates” plus the MSM to try to end the thing quickly and annoint Obama as the nominee.
uUnless I’m mistaken about your image reference,
“A rose is a rose is a rose” was written by the lesbian Gertrude Stein.
If it’s a reference to “a faded rose”, I’ve read the poem, but cannot place the author. It’s STILL not apropos.
I MUST have missed something.
She reaped what she sowed. Think of these people watching their TV sets and watching her slow political death:
Linda Tripp, all of the Travelgate victims, all of the victims of Bill Clinton’s sexual attacks and trysts, Monica Lewinsky in particular; all of the attorneys that were dumped from the Attorney General’s office when Bill Clinton took office (mass dumping); all the victims of their shady dealings who ended up in jail (during WhitewaterGate) while they ended up in the White House.
All of the staff whom Hillary bullied while in the White House when she was displeased; all of the military personnel whom she used as her personal valets, carrying her luggage for her, and dealing with her other forms of belittlement; and a myriad of other people that were her victims who must think they have died and gone to hog heaven watching her demise coming incrementally and inevitably. I salute all of them. The victims get the last laugh on their tormenter(s), Billary. That is, all of them that are still alive. Cheering from their graves:
Jim McDougal
Vince Foster
Dead bodyguards in Arkansas
Dead witnesses
Dead fundraisers
Dead women
Dead investigators
I’m right there with you, ProfoundMan. I was scratching my head and scrunching my face as I read.
P.S., forgot one, cheering from his grave:
Ron Brown, Sec. of Commerce, who died under mysterious circumstances:
Ron Brown Former Chairman, DNC; Commerce Secretary Died May 3, 1996. Ron Brown died along with 39 other people when the T-43 (a converted 737 used by the Air Force) carrying the group on a trip to Bosnia crashed while approaching the Dubrovnik airport. On the verge of being indicted and having stated his willingness to make a deal with prosecutors, Ron Brown’s death brought to an end his ability to testify. Military investigators concealed from the public the fact that a perfectly cylindrical hole, the size of a .45-caliber round, was found in the top of his head. No autopsy was performed.
"The sinking ships are leaving the rat."
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