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Hillary's Biggest Mistake
TheHill.com ^ | April 2, 2008 | Dick Morris

Posted on 04/02/2008 9:04:32 PM PDT by Old Lady

What worked for P.T. Barnum didn’t do as well for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). When the great showman said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” he unknowingly anticipated the fundamental assumption that underlay the campaign of the first woman seriously to contend for the presidency. But however correct Barnum’s observations may have been about the circus audiences of years ago, it has proven a flawed premise for a 21st century presidential campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dickmorris; hillary; hillaryclinton; toesucker
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1 posted on 04/02/2008 9:04:32 PM PDT by Old Lady
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To: Old Lady
Dick Morris

TOE-SUCKER SPEAKS!!

2 posted on 04/02/2008 9:05:31 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Old Lady

Tonight on Fox? Cnn? MSNBC? (I heard him but didn’t look at the TV) Dick Morris said (paraphrased) one reason Hillary will wait as long as possible to leave the campaign is MONEY... her campaign is in deep debt. If she leaves now, she will be personally responsible for the debt. As long as she is still in the campaign, she can continue to raise money to pay the debt off.


3 posted on 04/02/2008 9:06:48 PM PDT by Old Lady
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To: Old Lady
Hillary's Biggest Mistake

...stands about six feet tall, has blue eyes and bushy grey hair.

4 posted on 04/02/2008 9:07:36 PM PDT by RichInOC (Bill Clinton doesn't need a partner to have sex with somebody he loves...but it helps.)
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To: Old Lady

5 posted on 04/02/2008 9:12:33 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Old Lady
From the article:
The Clintons’ entire approach to this campaign season was based on learning the wrong lessons from their political history. They survived the Lewinsky imbroglio, the pardons scandal, and the theft of White House gifts and assumed they were bulletproof. They confused our forgiveness with gullibility and came to feel that they could get away with anything. When Hillary won her Senate seat in New York, after Giuliani dropped out and Lazio could offer only nominal opposition, she believed she could sell voters any kind of chimera and they would fall for it.

But she assumed wrong. We saw through her claims of experience and followed her twists and turns on Iraq. We realized that she was being propped up by lobbyists and special interests as a phony brand of change. And when we saw the real kind of change offered by Obama, we backed his candidacy.

Maybe we were never quite as dumb as she thought we were.

Leaving aside the last sentence, I disagress with Morris.

IMHO, all along "we" knew the Clinton's were grifting, sociopathic scumbags. But the LSM wouldn't play along. Now they are and what a difference it's making. Hillary is, for all intents and purposes, smoked.

6 posted on 04/02/2008 9:18:04 PM PDT by upchuck (Who wins doesn't matter. They're all liberals. Spend your time and money to take back Congress.)
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To: Old Sarge

I think I hate Morris more than the Clintons. Thats like preferring the clap to genital warts.


7 posted on 04/02/2008 9:30:34 PM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: Liberty Valance

lol


8 posted on 04/02/2008 9:36:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Soliton

so we can get rid of Morris with antibiotics, but we’re stuck with the Clintons forever?


9 posted on 04/02/2008 9:49:05 PM PDT by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (If a liberal tells a lie and a conservative didn't witness the original event is it still a lie?)
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To: Old Lady

Being born.


10 posted on 04/02/2008 10:05:31 PM PDT by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: Old Lady
Not to be nit-picky or anything, but the quote, Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people was not made by P.T. Barnum, the great showman, but by Henry Louis Mencken, the American journalist and editor.

Mencken Society Home Page
11 posted on 04/02/2008 10:11:45 PM PDT by Sundog (Barak Hussein Amoeba; Simple change for simple people)
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To: Old Lady

It may not work for HIllary, but it’s still working for Obama.


12 posted on 04/02/2008 10:13:18 PM PDT by hsalaw
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"It may not work for HIllary, but it’s still working for Obama."

The only reason it's working for Barak Hussein Obama is because of the complicity of the media.

13 posted on 04/02/2008 11:30:36 PM PDT by libs_kma (The land of the free, because of the brave)
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To: Old Lady

Hard for losers to raise money though.


14 posted on 04/02/2008 11:32:34 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Soliton

Lets tie the three of them in seperate gunny sacks and see if we can tell the difference with the use of a carpet beater.


15 posted on 04/02/2008 11:42:45 PM PDT by OeOeO
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To: Old Sarge

Get over it already. Morris provides worthwhile commentary.


16 posted on 04/02/2008 11:44:21 PM PDT by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan

No. He’s a Clintonista.


17 posted on 04/02/2008 11:47:59 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: upchuck
Maybe we were never quite as dumb as she thought we were.

I'd say about half of us were, and still are.

18 posted on 04/02/2008 11:49:19 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Sundog

Barnum is usually (mis)quoted as saying there’s a sucker born every minute, but I guess Dick Morris didn’t want to use that quote.


19 posted on 04/03/2008 1:35:51 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (And how 'bout that mortgage bailout? Are you getting off the hook? Or on?)
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To: Old Lady

“...And when we saw the real kind of change offered by Obama, we backed his candidacy.
Maybe we were never quite as dumb as she thought we were.”

DUMBER


20 posted on 04/03/2008 2:56:21 AM PDT by mowowie
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