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Democrats won’t fracture
Picayune Item ^ | Mar 24, 2008 | Morton Kondracke

Posted on 03/24/2008 8:35:57 AM PDT by fightinJAG

The rough treatment Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving Sen. Barack Obama may be good, real-world training if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee and gets elected, but in the meantime she’s helping Republican Sen. John McCain.

She may well have cut an actual campaign ad for McCain when she said at a national security event last week, "Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience. I have a lifetime of experience. And Sen. Obama made one speech in 2002."

McCain also could reprise Clinton’s "red phone" ad in a campaign against Obama — but then, he could also use the Obama campaign’s lengthy knockdown of Clinton’s claims of extensive foreign-policy experience if she somehow wrests the nomination from him.

Meanwhile, former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro’s, D-N.Y., jibe that Obama would not be a presidential contender if he weren’t a black male — while arguably true — was designed to amplify racial polarization in the Democratic Party and could do so in the general election, as well.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; hillary; kondracke; obama
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To: MrB
"Stir it up, 'Hillary stole the nomination' [from the young, hopeful, black guy]"

Obama and his mentor will do that. With the riots Obama was "warning" about.

21 posted on 03/24/2008 9:32:57 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: DarthVader
"They will explode in a spectacular fireball."

...or melt down into a steaming pile of radioactive sludge.

22 posted on 03/24/2008 9:34:42 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb

Yeah, we probably won’t have to incite anything, it will already be in process.


23 posted on 03/24/2008 9:43:48 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Cicero

Do Democrats see Gore as a loser, or do they still claim that he won in 2000?


24 posted on 03/24/2008 9:45:59 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

It depends if they are talking among themselves or speaking out in public.

Many of the liberals I know who considered Al Gore to be the Hero of Globull Warming a year ago now have started to admit that he’s nothing but a profiteer selling carbon credits and burning huge amounts of fuel in his monster house and planes.

The “stolen election” was always more of a talking point for Bush haters than Gore lovers, anyway.


25 posted on 03/24/2008 9:56:42 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
If the RATS draft anyone it is more likely to be Edwards before Gore.

That may happen after they show Barak “Berry” Hussein Osama Obama the internals that explain why he has no possible hope of winning in Nov.

Obama will have to drop out before the convention or the RATS are doomed.

26 posted on 03/24/2008 10:05:07 AM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: MizSterious
"Sometimes I wonder how someone as clueless as he is can get—and keep—a job on a cable news show as a commentator."

You could say that about a lot more of them than just Kondracke. I figure either Ailes owes them all, or they have the goods on him.

27 posted on 03/24/2008 10:14:29 AM PDT by penowa
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To: Beagle8U

Edwards has even less experience than Hillary. He’s a non-starter, with the exception that he might endorse Gore at the DNC convention in Denver.

Gore’s problems are old.

Experience, however, isn’t one of those problems. He’s got 8 years in the White House, multiple years in the House, two terms in the Senate, a Nobel Prize, an Academy Award, a best-selling book, and he won more votes than Bush once.


28 posted on 03/24/2008 10:15:06 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Edwards was running and still wants the job. Owl Gore is busy selling his climate change scam and isn’t interested in the chance to get his butt kicked again.


29 posted on 03/24/2008 10:23:43 AM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

They won’t? Oh, I see — they already *have*.

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30 posted on 03/24/2008 10:59:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: fightinJAG
You can't "fracture" slime.
31 posted on 03/24/2008 11:26:06 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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