Posted on 02/15/2008 2:16:31 PM PST by xtinct
"This is death by a thousand cuts." That's what they keep saying about Hillary Clinton.
Think of what this week was for her. She awoke each day having to absorb new sentences in a paragraph of woe:
Three more primary losses, not even close. Now it's eight in a row. A slide in the national polls. Staff shakeup: soap-opera-watching campaign manager out, deputy out. Bill's former campaign manager, David Wilhelm, jumps for Barack Obama. Josh Green, in a stunning piece that might be called a meticulously reported notebook dump, says, in The Atlantic, that Mrs. Clinton made personnel decisions based only on loyalty, not talent and skill. (There's a lot of that in the Bush White House. The loyalty obsession is never a sign of health.) The Wall Street Journal reports "internal frictions" flaring in the open, with Clinton campaign guru Mark Penn yelling, "Your ad doesn't work!" to ad maker Mandy Grunwald, who fires back, "Oh, it's always the ad, never the message." (This is a classic campaign argument. The problem is almost always the message. Getting the message right requires answering this question: Why are we here? This is the hardest question to answer in politics. Most staffs, and gurus, don't know or can't say.) On a conference call Tuesday morning, Mr. Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, told reporters Mrs. Clinton simply cannot catch up. It is "next to impossible" for her to get past him on pledged delegates, she'd need "a blowout victory" of 20 to 30 points in the coming states, the superdelegates will "ratify" what the voters do. (I wrote in my notes, "not gloating--asserting as fact.") Within the hour Mr. Plouffe's words were headlined on Politico, made Drudge, and became topic one on the evening news shows.
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“You mean they don’t really love me?” Do I have to give the Emmy back?
I would pay to see Hitlery in a Straight Jacket when this is all done with. Billy will be way out of sight with a bimbo at the time. Billy will “feel her pain”.
HEY Pegmeister! That was my line from weeks ago.."They HATE me....they REALLY HATE me"!!
Right on. Billy Boy will bimbo himself to death and Hitlery will be relegated to her broom.
Hillary's well-known arrogance and likely assumption that the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination was hers by right are now shown as the delusional hubris of a woman who thought she could simply demand political power - and get it. Now, reality sets in. I can't imagine what Hillary Clinton must be thinking these days; her carefully-laid plans to become the first Marxist woman president of the United States in tatters, blown to bits by a mulatto senator with a very thin resume but a charisma that Hillary must know she never had.
I don't really want Barack Hussein Obama to be elected president but watching Hillary knocked off her high horse is almost (but not quite) worth it.
Indeed. But, strangely, I find myself actually pulling for her at this point. Just to see the train wreck that would happen in a stalemate with Obama followed by a power grab by Hillary.
All the rats jumping off her ship must be damned nervous because if she wins, they will be in deep doo doo. However,if and when she looses, it will be Straight Jacket time for her. And I will enjoy, but not feel, her pain.
She’s gonna be one mean rattlesnake in the Senate. Can’t wait to see her.
We are witnessing the end of America's most destructive political families since the Rosenburgs.
Ironical isn’t it... she got where she is by hooking on to a con artist... and she’s going down because of another... just too delicious!
I’m thinking she probably won’t run for Senate again. She only did it the first time because she thought it was a stepping stone to the White House.
I think she has four years left, but she could very well resign in a huff. Leave all those poor New Yorkers in the lurch. LOL.
Two troubling thoughts...
The first is that she’ll never, never give up her quest for the presidency.
The second is that Obama will pick her for VP... thus ensuring her future candidacy.
Don't be too sure. I had hoped that McCain would not be back this time around. At 64 or 68 hillarious won't be too old the next two cycles. And she is a clinton.
That's just plain silly; he doesn't have a death wish.
The worst ones never go away and just live forever. I think when the Clinton’s lose their power and people cease to fear them, there may actually be some charges brought against them. I hope they both end up in jail with Edwin Edwards. It took a long time for him to go, but he finally did.
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