Dick Morris: "Hillary Is Ruining Her Own Chances"

NewsMax.com ^ | 21 Feb 08 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

[blam]

" That’s not what’s driving Obamamania."

What do you think it is?

[Cyropaedia]

2012....? Get real. The woman will be 64 by then. They'll have to inject so much Botox into her face that she won't be able to speak.

This is her last shot and she knows it.

[KC_Conspirator]

Do they think the voters aren't listening to these authoritarian pronouncements, reminiscent of the days before the McGovern Commission reforms brought democracy to the Democratic Party?

So let me get this straight....it used to be worse. There is nothing democratic about the democrat party. Superdelegates were created to thwart the will of the people so that the party insider, the one to be coronated, would always win. I shudder to think what that party was like before the (ahem) "reforms".

[HIDEK6]

She’s young enough that she will run again.

Maybe, but the rats won't make the Adlai Stevenson mistake again.

[colorado tanker]

What is driving Obamamania?

First, this is a change election. People are unhappy about the economy and high gas prices. There is a lingering feeling Iraq went wrong.

Hillary is not a change candidate, she's an establishment candidate. She represents the Bush/Clinton dynasty we've had since 1988. And people don't look back on Bill Clinton's years as as a golden age, but as a time of as much division and infighting as at present.

Obama, on the other hand, is a tabula rasa because he's so new and so green. With his gifted oratory and platitudes with few specifics, people can picture their ideal change candidate, or at least liberal Democrats can.

My prediction is that Obamamania will begin to ebb when the Republicans begin to define him as the far left, and in some cases kooky, candidate he is.

[varon]

Don’t count them out even if she loses.

Even when she loses, she declares a victory!

[blam]

"My prediction is that Obamamania will begin to ebb when the Republicans begin to define him as the far left, and in some cases kooky, candidate he is."

Do you believe McCain can/will weather all the attacks and become the next US president.

[pnh102]

I think even if Obama wins the nomination and Mrs. Bill Clinton concedes, she will still try some dirty tricks to regain power.

I won't believe that she is not our next president until 01-20-2009 at which point someone other than Mrs. Bill Clinton is sworn into office. Unless it is Obama, and he is dumb enough to make her his VP...

[The Great RJ]

I expect Hillary will continue fighting for the nomination even if she loses the Texas primary. She is already cooking up some dirty trick to steal the nomination from Obama.

[colorado tanker]

Do you believe McCain can/will weather all the attacks and become the next US president.

I think this is going to be a tough, tough year for Republicans up and down the ticket, so I'd give any candidate a less than 50% shot.

Plus, the base is not excited about John-boy, so it'll be tough for him to duplicate the volunteer army Rove put together in 2004 to GOTV.

That said, I think it's do-able, if McCain brings in the right, tough-minded people, who can define Obama for what he is, a green, inexperienced, far-leftie, with some downright nutty associations like that church of his.

Plus, I'm not convinced the country is really ready for a black President, although that'll never show in the polls. Look what happened to Bobby Jindal in Louisiana the first time he ran. The polls overstated his support.

[colorado tanker]

Oops, two more points for McCain.

One, the Democrat Congress is very unpopular, although I see no chance for the pubbies to take it back this cycle. People may feel better about having a Republican in the White House to create a divided government to keep the crazies in check.

Two, if anyone in the Republican Party can duplicate what Sarko did in France, become a change candidate out of the incumbent party, it's McCain because he's clashed with Bush and the base so much.

[quadrant]

Amusement is the only emotion one can summon when reading of Democrats’ anger at Hillary Clinton’s tactics. For years people spoke and wrote about the Clinton’s propensity to smear their opponents and use any tactic to gain an advantage. However, as long as the targets of the abuse were Republicans these now indignant Democrats were willing to condone the abuse or at least keep silent. Now that another Democrat is the target, Democrats are outraged. If that’s not a double standard, I don’t know what is.

[Dog Gone]

Ideally, both candidates stay in with neither one having a majority of elected delegates by the start of the convention.

I want a floor fight, just like the one in 1968 when Dan Rather got slugged in the stomach on national television.

[fso301]

[yorkie]

"they will cheat, cry, scream, change the rules impose martial law (if they could) to get the witch nominated...."

Don't forget rig the voting results. (You know - get a computer geek in all the major cities to hack into the computers and change the tallies.......)

I wouldn't put it past them at all.

Then, of course there is such a rumor as "Arkancide".

[Churchillspirit]

He (AL Gore) is, presumably, getting ready to administer the"Coup-de-Gore" and finishing off Hillary's political ambitions.

What do you think Morris means by that - does Al have some dirt on the 'Toons that he is prepared to use?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The trouble with all of this is that while its fun to watch Hillary dither away her chances, Obama looks like a nightmare. Links to 70,000 murders by a Kenyan dictator a Christian Church front for communism, socialism, Islam and whatever else, etc.

Then no matter how that comes out, our choice is between the winner of the Democrat dustup and McCain.

Sounds like a Chinese curse. "May you live in interesting times."

[libs_kma]

"In either case watch for the witch to show again in 2012....."

She'll have the stink of primary loser all over her, so she wouldn't have the adulation that Gore got when he won the popular vote and lost the EC.

IMO if she loses the primary, put a fork in her, she's done.

She'll have as much support for a 2012 run as Jena Francois Kerry did for this campaign.

Plus, what hurt Kerry this time is that he would have had to resign his Senate seat to run in 2008, just as the Beast would have to do in 2012. They can't actively campaign for POTUS and Senate at the same time.

Kerry got an exploratory team together, didn't feel the love, and decided to slink back to the Senate, where he'll do nothing for another 20 years then retire.

[ops33]

I agree with you, besides, what does she have to lose if they go nuclear and destroy the Democratic Party. As another Freeper posted on an earlier forum, “I will believe she is finally dead when I see her stocking feet curl up and the Ruby slippers pop off her feet.”

[Dilbert San Diego]

The Clintons can’t believe this is happening to them.

Well, Hillary’s campaign may go down in election history the way the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. And if it does end that way, I think entire books will be written about how a front-runner with many advantages was defeated.