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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Yes, I agree, but so is Osama Obama. Just look at his Senate record.
I think Rush is banking on the reports that say that Hildabeast is going in HATED by 50% of the voters.
Obama is a guy that nobody knows but has a way of mesmerizing
the US electorate which has been dumbed down to the basement by pop culture, public education, and the leftist MSM.
In my opinion, it is six one way, half dozen the other.
But no mater which of the three get elected, the US will be in for some years of living Hell.
I feel quite lucky that I no longer have any property or money left in the US and will not have to live through it.
As for Hillary, it's a strategy. At least Rush has one that involves Conservatives, unlike McCain.
I think you're absolutely right. As I picture either Hillary OR Obama standing at a podium debating McCain, I just shudder. Those who dislike Hillary will just stay home, in my opinion, not come out in droves, as Rush says, to beat her.
The thing is we now have to deal with both of ‘em. A Hillary/Obama ticket is a foregone conclusion now I’m afraid.
“So are Obama, and IMHO, McCain.”
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That’s just silly.
Obama yes. McCain’s not dangerous. He may not pass some ideological purity tests, but there’s a HUGH difference which sets him above and apart from Obama and Hillary in particular.
Hillary is a Marxist pretending to be a liberal.
McCain is (at worst) a liberal, pretending to be a conservative.
McCain fought, on the battlefield *against* Marxists.
One other quality McCain could bring to the Whitehouse, which (nobody) mentions anywhere, is his experiences as “guest” of the North Vietnamese, might just make him the single American politician who actually understands the potential threat, which Asian power poses to America.
Most Americans’ understanding of Asians, is limited to Chinese restaurants.
McCain gets it. Big time.
He might just be a very good president.
I don’t frankly think, he deserves the sort of vitriol which he’s subjected to on this board.
With good reason - a net change of five votes in each Ohio district in 1992 would have swung the state to George H.W. Bush - it was that close. Instead, Perot voters threw the state, and the election, to Bill Clinton.
Rush was right then, and he's right now. The Democratic chaos continues, and McCain gets to raise money and focus on November.
“Hillary will choose Obama for her veep and be the great uniter after her miraculous comeback.”
How exactly does this benefit Obama? All he has to do is look at Al Gore, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards to see how it benefits. Do you really believe that a Hillary presidency would give Obama any kind of real power? He truly would be a token at that point.
It would be in his best interests to not get on that ticket and hope she loses so he can run in 12. Even if she won the Presidency, as I mentioned before he would have no power in her presidency and you know that. He would be better off at trying to obtain power in the Senate such as becoming Senate majority leader and wield power from there while waiting for his opportunity to run again.
The Super Delegates are not going to overturn what the democrats in the Primaries have decreed. Obama will win this election now. Its just a question of how bloodied he will be in this fight. That can only happen if Hillary stays in the race.
If he wrapped the race up last night and she bowed out the next week, he could put all of his energies and money to taking apart McCain. Meanwhile McCain is basically broke and could not respond. What would you rather have, him spending money on beating up Hillary or spending money beating up McCain?
Think about the big picture, this scenario is playing out well for the Republicans.
Well that's where your and Rush's brilliant plan will fail. The MSM will guarantee that Republicans stay home, bank on it.
Don’t blame us, we’re just “Mavericks”!
You are missing the big picture, not me. If you have ever seen the movie skeleton key, you are the chick in the middle of the fire she has lit around herself and Hillary and Obama are outside the circle laughing at you.
Isn’t that a chinese proverb?
My role as a resident of North Carolina is to get out to vote in the Republican Primary on May 6th and vote for the most conservative candidates in every race on my ballot from Dog Catcher to President of the United States. I will not lower myself to toying with the Democratic Party in anyway until it's time to vote against everyone of them in November. Unless the Republican Party puts up a bigger fool against the Democrat's opponent in any of the races, I will vote for the Republican in every race. Hillary and Obama are without a doubt, the bigger fools. I will not vote for a Linden LaRouche, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader or Ron Paul. My vote against the Democrats will not be wasted.
Hillary and Obama aren't the only idiot liberals out there!
McCain-Kennedy and McCain Feingold indicate that McCain will not be a good president. He sacrificed both sovereignty and free speech with these bills-he co-authored. You can not have a president who thumbs his nose at the constitution.
The Carter folks wished for Ronald the Magnificent and look what they got.
Agreed, but who will be first on the ticket? Why should Obama take the VP spot if he has more delegates than Clinton, which is likely. OTOH, why would Clinton, with her ego and obsession for control, want to be Obama's VP? And besides, Obama's isn't an idiot: if Hillary were a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, Obama would need a food taster at the very least, and could certainly foresee spending a lot of his time trying to trying to control her, since Hillary Clinton would probably consider herself a co-president as part of the deal.
I agree. People who want Hillary to lose now seem to be letting emotion get in the way of rationality here. They hate Hillary so much they can't see the bigger picture.
Rush made a humungous mistake here.
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.
**Rush will realized he screwed the pooch:
Watch for this:
1)Declare victory
2)When Clinton wins, he will swear that his strategy wasn’t just to weaken Obama, but now Clinton will “magically” be the easier to beat.
Limbaugh,Ingraham, Hannity...morons who deserve the 8 years of Clintonian bliss...I hope they send the IRS on all of them.
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