Party bosses may ask Hillary Clinton to quit

Financial Express ^ | April 19, 2008

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New York, April 19: Apparently tired of bickering between presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Democratic Party leaders are likely to pressurise the former US first lady to withdraw if she performs badly in the crucial Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, analysts say.

However, should she decide to continue to fight until the party convention on August 24 in Denver, the party can do little about it.

But with several party leaders asserting that the vicious campaign is doing damage to the ability of the Democratic party to take on Republican candidate John McCain, pressure is likely to mount on super delegates elected officials to declare their preference so that the candidate with lesser numbers could be persuaded to withdraw.

In the debate in Philadelphia earlier this week, both candidates had said that their fight would not affect the Democratic Party's ability to defeat McCain and that they would get united once the nominee is chosen.

But the party bosses do not think so. They say if the fight continues until August, the party would lose three crucial months of campaigning apart from the fact that the Republicans would give ammunition to damage whichever candidate is nominated.

Party Chairman Howard Dean, media reports say, has been urging the super delegates to make up their mind early as there is no chance of either candidate getting enough pledged delegates. The super delegates are not committed to anyone and decide on their own.

Meanwhile, Clinton slightly shifted the line of attack on Obama, challenging his ability to manage the country when he is complaining about tough questioning during the debate in which his performance, all analysts agree, was below par.

[Sal]

I think the Clintons ceased being the Party bosses when Soros bought the whole damn party. He just plain owns it now.

Unfortunately he has financially supported McCain in the past--CFR and some foundation support that doesn't carry his name straight out. Hopefully McCain will stiff Soros just like he stiffs conservatives, otherwise Soros will own the whole damn country.

[Past Your Eyes]

It’s a dying art.

[xtinct]

Oh noooo!!!

Looking forward to "Operation Smackdown" at the DemoDorks Convention in August.

Not ready to discontinue Operation Chaos!!!

[Southack]

Your article is publishing hogwash in order to set expectations and then have Hillary dash them when she wins big in Pennsylvania.

It’s Propaganda 101.

[dbacks]

I am beginning to think it will be a brokered convention and neither will be chosen. Instead it could go to ?Richardson, ?Gore, ?Dean, ?Edwards, ???

[theDentist]

I’d love to be in the room when they lay that on her.

[Night Hides Not]

What’s the over/under on F-bombs at that meeting?

We need to call Jim Phelps and the IMF team, so Barney can put a bug in that room.

[Churchillspirit]

The only scary one of those is SCOTUS and the dems. would have to win the White House before that could happen.

If it is "President Obama" I doubt she would have a chance.

Please, God.......

[Night Hides Not]

Hillary will need a shot and a beer to get through the resignation...

She'd recapture the youth vote if she publicly downed a jagerbomb.

[LibWhacker]

Anybody want to bet where their bodies will turn up if they do? HillBilly will not countenance insolence like that from party bosses they appointed.

[dvwjr]

Originally posted by Squantos:

"I believe there ARE states that lock you in per your primary participation for the general election later in the year.......may be in error."

Don't be ridiculous, you can't believe what you just wrote. A vote in an internal party election, primary or caucas has absolutely NO bearing on the casting of an individual's vote in a general election for Presidential Electors (if that method is used by a State Legislature) in November. Would the State send someone into the voting booth with you on November 4th to make sure that you only voted for the candidate of the party for which you requested a primary ballot during the spring?

I thought that I had heard it all on FreeRepublic, until now...

dvwjr

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Superdelegates, Doomsday Option: You need to step up to the plate. It has been obvious to me for the longest time that this Democrat primary is going to come down to what the superdelegates decide to do, and you superdelegates, it's time to get some cojones. You are superdelegates, by definition you can do whatever you want. You do not have to follow popular vote, electoral vote, you can vote for whoever you want. You can do it, and that's why you're there. You are there to save your party from a disaster like George McGovern created 1972, or that Jimmy Carter brought to your party in 1980. That's why you superdelegates are there. This is on you. This is on your shoulders. You have only one option if you want to win in 2008.

If you want to win the presidential race in 2008, you have one option: Step up to the plate and find a third candidate. Start talking amongst yourselves now and get this ball rolling. I don't care how much money has been spent on the primaries. I don't care who has the most pledged delegates. I don't care who's leading the popular vote. I don't care about any of that, and you shouldn't, either. You cannot win with these two incompetent, unqualified embarrassments that are seeking your nomination now. You have one hope. People are going to McCain, not because they like him, because they hate your two people. It's time for you superdelegates to get together and find a third candidate. Algore, I don't know, but somebody.

Operation Chaos Doomsday Option

[deuteronlmy232]

I sort of like the idea of a graphic showing the witch's sparkly red shoes sticking out from under a bus.

Do you know how you can tell the difference between the truck that ran over the snake and the one that ran over hillary?

The one that ran over the snake has brake marks leading up to the snake.

[bannie]

Oh...she'll pay herself “back” first.

That's what Herself, the Singular and Narcissistic, has always done.

[Fresh Wind]

If it’s close on the other hand, the pressure will be intense and she may fold.

No, she will demand the VP slot, and we all know what THAT means for Hussein.

[AlanGreenSpam]

-—” his first cousin (whom Obama campaigned for in 2006) is the Prime Minister of Kenya who just agreed to institute a rather brutal form of Shariah law, his entire family (including his strangely absent white mother) “

His white mother is DEAD. She died of Cervical Cancer in about 1992. Studies have shown that women who have a lot of different sex partners are highly prone to getting cervical cancer. (not joking here).

[uncbob]

These the same leaders who visited Clinton to get him to resign over Monica -—the ones he and Hillary gave the finger to

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Dunham, who died of ovarian cancer in 1995, is described as the “most dominant figure” in Obama’s life.

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From Drudge today.....

NYT SUNDAY: CLINTON CASH CRUNCH; DONORS MAXED OUT, TIRED... DEVELOPING...

[EEDUDE]

“The GOP MUST win this one.”

Then they had better find another candidate.

McCain is old, tired, and unbalanced. This will come across loud and clear when the Dem nominee is chosen and the debates
are on for real.

I predict he will blow a gasket on national television (unless he is heavily sedated) and it will be over.