Posted on 03/05/2008 6:46:48 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton: ‘Be careful what you wish for, Rush’ By Klaus Marre Posted: 03/05/08 09:30 AM [ET]
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), buoyed by important victories in the Democratic primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, on Wednesday offered some words of warning to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who had urged Republicans to vote for her as the presumptively easier Democrat to beat.
“Be careful what you wish for, Rush,” Clinton said on Fox News.
For the second time during this campaign season, the former first lady survived what many viewed as a potential knockout punch from frontrunning Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). While Obama maintains a significant delegate lead, he was unable to seal the nominations Tuesday night, having to concede another two populous states to Clinton.
“By getting the most delegates, by having won twice as many states, by having a lead in the popular vote we feel as if we are on pace to get the nomination,” Obama said Wednesday morning in an appearance on the same network. “And it will take a little longer than would be true if we weren’t running against a Clinton, but we’re still going to end up getting it.”
However, instead of being able to focus on Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the newly crowned Republican nominee, Obama must now continue to expend his considerable resources on the Democratic primary.
The Clinton campaign is seeking to use the breathing room the former first lady was given in polling places in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island to map out its “path to the presidency,” as a memo from strategists Harold Ickes and Mark Penn was labeled.
In the document, the Clinton team says it is “time for a second look” on the race and the candidates and argued that the “momentum has swung
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>Hillary will see to Michigan and Florida being seated and steal the nomination.<
If she does that, how many black voters will sit on their hands come election day to spite her?
Plus they will be thinking that they are making history with the black/female combo and this will be the end of the Bush regime and old McCain as the last of its representatives.
The McCain vs. Obama election would have been more like Nixon vs. McGovern rather then Nixon vs. Kennedy.
Rush needs to untie his brain.
With just 2 pieces of legislation McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy, MccAin has caused more damage to the U.S. , to freedom, to human rights, to our U.S. sovereignty, to the constitution , to freedom of speech than ANYONE. A future president can even use McCain-feingold to crack down on blogging : http://www.news.com/The-coming-crackdown-on-blogging/2008-1028_3-5597079.html
"The coming crackdown on blogging...Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political bogging and online punditry are over.....CNET News.com spoke with Smith about the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as the McCain-Feingold law, and its forthcoming extrusion onto the Internet."
Rush outsmarted himself. He just gave us a Hillary/Obama ticket. The women will come out for Hillary. The young people for Obama. Women are the majority and many women will register for the first time to vote for Hillary. So we get 8 years of Hillary followed by 8 years of Obama. This is what you do when you give evil a chance. We had a chance to kill evil (Hillary) stick a stake through her heart. Thanks Rush for 8 years of Hillary followed by 8 years of Obama.
No-they can’t because they would lose the black vote...no Democrat could win without it. Don’t listen to the news guys. There are party people (some are super delegates) who want this over. Hillary can not win without overturning vote. It’s not going to happen. It’s a matter of when someone gets her out not if. Any other candidate would be out already.
Clinton will now get Fl/Mich to revote because she now has leverage...it will happen, and the SuperDelegates will give her the nomination. Rush you’ve been played.
Agreed.
Plus now Hildy can argue with some plausability that she is the only candidate who can win the big states.
That tremendously increases her power from the day before Super Tuesday II--with superdelegates, with donors, across the board.
Thanks, Rush. NOT.
Yeah-true. Nixon was a liberal who gave this country price controls, wage controls and was the president who actually ended the Vietnam war. It would be exactly the same.
I don't think it's going to be easy to beat either of them. It doesn't sound like McCain is willing to expose the shortcomings of Obama, and God only knows what Hillary Clinton will do to McCain! She is one unscrupulous woman who will do just about anything to win. She's been planning to be the First Woman President, and she won't stop until she is stopped. The media failed to stop her and Bill in 1992 when they could have exposed them for the crooks and liars they both are. NBC sat on the Juanita Broaddrick rape story for months, and the media knew as well as Hillary what kind of pervert Bill Clinton is.
During this campaign, did you see or hear any stories by the media reminding the people about the furniture and furnishings the Clintons' stole from the WH and had to return? Did you see any mention of how their staff demolished the offices before they vacated? Did you see any mention of the FBI files Hillary had confiscated for her by David Livingstone? Did you see any mention of the 'lost files' suddenly appearing in their living quarters of the WH, with her fingerprints on them? Their power grabbing and trashy acts have not been made an issue. I'm disgusted with Bush for always giving them a pass and never acknowledging their tawdry acts publicly, and what did it get him? They stabbed him in the back at every opportunity!
She will go after McCain and destroy him if he keeps up this 'mamby pamby' act of his. That's why I think McCain had a better chance of exposing Obama as being unprepared to be President. I don't think he has the "killer" mentality of the Clintons'. I'll hold my nose and vote for McCain because, IMO, he is the lesser of three evils, but I don't think Rush did the Conservatives any favors with his "Vote for Hillary rhetoric".
Plenty to talk about...
Republicans in Texas were going to vote in at least a 2 to 1 margin for Obama bfore Rush’s , Levin’s , Ingraham’s and Hannity’s stunts and interference for Hillary. That would have made a difference.
If you think all these talk show hosts bashing Obama and telling people to vote for Hillary didn’t have an effect then you need to check your premises. This was too close in Texas to gamble with . They played with fire and got burned. The result is we’ll get a Hillary/Obama ticket, 8 years of Hillary followed by 8 years of Obama. Thank Rush and Levin for nothing.
Not the same thing, voters were told these vote didn’t count in the Democratic primary-many voters didn’t bother. Also, Obama’s name was not even on the ballot in Michigan. You can’t count these votes. It has to be a do over.
Hillary has had to handle Obama gently , as she will need his voters if she wins the nomination . She truly is hamstrung in trying to win this without alienating his worshippers .
She might have to put him on the ticket , which is the last thing she wanted to do . She wants a Redstate Dim to help her try and win a weak Redstate . Ohio comes to mind .
McCain will be free to go after him on a whole host of issues and McCain will keep it above the gutter . There is also the factor of McCain crossover Dims , as well Dims that flatout won’t vote for Obama because of race .
Obama hasn’t really had to face a tough debate as of yet , McCain will shred him .
Hillary will be much harder to beat because of the female vote which she will overwhelmingly carry .
What's so hard about that?
The idea that this is “continued chaos” that will diminish the Rat nominee’s chances in the general election-—Rush’s apparent rationale for this stunt which was too cute by half-—is totally bogus.
Bill Clinton didn’t clinch the nomination until late July, IIRC. The “chaos” didn’t stop him one whit.
OTOH, Bill only won because of those who voted for Ross Perot.
It’s not a matter of what I would or would not have. If the decision were in my hands, we would not be in the position we are in! If I were choosing the party tickets, this would be a race between Mark Sanford and Zell Miller.
I was just remarking that the combination Obama/Clinton is not a realistic one to consider, due to Clinton’s history of having inconvenient people turn up dead. If Obama is not already aware of this history, surely someone will make him aware of it in the process of choosing a running mate.
What is it that you're blaming Rush for?
Obama won more Republican votes in Texas than Hillary, winning 52% to 47%. Republican voters were 9% of the Democratic primary voters, meaning votes for Hillary by Republicans were approximately 4% of the votes she received. Obama will emerge from the Texas primary with more delegates than Hillary.
What part of the results are Rush's fault again? Did you even look at the actual voting results?
.....BUT!! It Is Rush Limbaugh who has given us President HILLARY!!!!!
You have posted the only positive rationale for Rush’s stunt that I agree with.
I still do not agree that it was worth the risk, which is major.
If McCain needs money and is getting beat up by the nominee (assuming the nominee also doesn’t want to regroup financially for a while), then his supporters and those opposed to the Rats need to send him money.
You don’t start “monologuing” with the Hildabeast instead of finishing her off because the other guy needs money.
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