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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Over 300 million people in the US and the only three possible presidential candidates include an empty suit, a piap, and an antique. Unbelievable. I’m soooo depressed.
Not to mention the retired population who still believe BJClinton is The Man.
No I didn’t. It’s taking longer because she is a Clinton. She is still losing and will be out eventually-it’s just a question of when.
Haven’t any of rush’s callers called him on this?
“It may not be a “big deal” to you, but it deals a serious blow to suppression of free speech and sets a horrible precedent...or did that fact escape you?”
I didn’t say I liked it. However free speech is not surpressed if they have a huge audience on XM or Sirius sattelite. Free speech does not mean that it costs nothing (as in free) to listen to someone speak you know, but the freedom provided to express your ideas. They will still be able to do that.
Free speech was set back by the McCain/Feingold bill, not Rush moving to satellite radio.
I would bet she would not accept the VP position. She has a better chance in the Senate.
Role reversal, but just like when the bad guy should go ahead and finish off the good guy, but he starts “monologing” instead and the good guy escapes.
What makes you believe paid radio would be exempt from the fairness doctrine? It wouldn’t.
Perot took as many votes, if not more, away from the democrats as he did from the republicans.
I should know as I was one of them.
Hildy just said this morning she would consider asking Obama to be her VP. Of course she would.
She would have to.
Yep.
Lord McCain would not be the Republican nominee had not a whole lot of liberal independent voters skewed the election way back when. All Rush was doing was helping lord McCain out by encouraging a bit of skewing to keep the take no prisoners Hillary hard at work.
I hope Obama wins , but this isn’t over yet . Hillary still has a few options . I don’t think she will accept a VP slot, but anything is possible .
The Dim nominee truly wants a Redstate Dim for obvious electoral reasons . If they team up , it will only be to hold the Dim party together .
“And what’s he going to do otherwise? Get a job?”
He’s still a Senator and now will be a powerful Senator. With his popularity and the amount of Senators he has lined up, he could easily become the Senate majority leader in the next session of Congress. He gets all of the things you mention and much more as the Senate majority leader. A real power broker even with a Hillary Clinton as President. He gets to do rose garden visits as VP. You don’t really think that Hillary or Bill would give him any real power do you?? Neither does Barry.
Also, I don’t think they will force Obama to name her VP. They need either a southerner or a mid-westerner-a governor who can deliver a state. The governor of Ohio would be a good choice even if he did support Hillary because he is very popular. Ohio is an important state.
They should know what they’re doing, that’s the problem.
Many here lived through what the Ross Perot craze brought the nation. Yet they seemed doomed to repeat it.
Actually McCain is the candidate because ‘a whole lot of liberal voters skewed the election way back when’. It’s not working so well for us...obviously.
Among pledged delegates she needs to win 63% of the remaining delegates. Rove always add the Super Delegates to the total count when he does his calculations and hence the 53% number.
Wow! For once I agree completely with her.
I agree too. The Clintons are vengeful. Rush has turned into a fool. Ann Coulter too.
Hildy must pick Obama as her running mate, otherwise she loses a big chunk of his voters.
She has to console them with a consolation prize. And she will.
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