Posted on 05/09/2008 12:25:39 AM PDT by neverdem
No doubt, but she wants the PRESIDENCY. The perks. The power. And the MONEY.
Think of all the money she could rake in during and after the Presidency as the first woman President et al. Think of all the money she and Bill have raked in after his Presidency. Think of the power she could accumulate.
Compared to all that, 11 million bucks is chicken feed.
It all boggles the mind--and to Hillary it's all irresistable!
She wants it. She'll fight for it. And the Clintons know how to get what they want.
This is not to say that they are invincible. But it is to say that they are determined!
"Bullcrap. They are "empowered" to sell their vote to the highest bidder."
Yes. NEVER attribute anything even remotely akin to high-minded principle or motivation to a Democrat politician.
She wants it VERY badly and right now.
Four years is a long time when she could be raking in the money and accumulating power. The sooner she can get started with the mega-bucks and mega-power, the better.
On the other hand, if it must be postponed, it must. Obama's ambitions must be torpedoed, and plenty of preparation can be done in four years.
It won't be too late in 2012. But she will have to make up for lost time, and that will intensify efforts in the meantime.
Maybe the Clintons could fake a video of Obama saying he opposes abortion and same-sex marriage.
Or that he intends to abolish the capital gains tax, the death tax, and corporate taxes and send the U.S. economy booming and soaring! Lifting everyone out of poverty! Abolishing the need for big government! Increasing federal revenues and decreasing taxes at the same time!
Or maybe a video of Obama singing "God Bless America"!
You're right! If Clinton operatives read these posts, we could be giving them the ultimate nuclear option.
Every time Hillary has attacked Obama from the right, she has scored - and moved up in the polls.
That assuredly means defense and national security - and that is indeed a viable nuclear option vis-a-vis Obama.
She cannot get to the left of him on social issues and Iraq. He has the left and far left locked up.
But she will probably not exercise the nuclear-option, prefering to subtly not support him in the election - and then go for 2012.
McCain won't permit it.
He's not the beast, he's just a useful idiot, just like Democrat voters.
She ain't dead yet, folks...
“And they are empowered to change their allegiance at any time, based on their “read” of what’s best for the party.”
Oh that would be fun to watch ...
“You People” are simply not smart enough yet to decide what’s best for you, so the owners of the party are going to send you back to your homes and TELL you how it’s going to be.
Works with any 3 rats.
Murphy.
Otherwise she wouldn't be staying in at this point. It doesn't make sense unless she's sure Obama is going to be torpedoed. Right now she's spending too much political capital to be going after a lost cause. If she didn't have something up her sleeve she'd concede to protect her rep and covertly undermine Obama in the general, positioning herself for the nomination in 2012.
What I’m saying, too, is that if it appears she fires the fatal torpedo at Obama’s fall candidacy, the party will never forgive her for that and a run in 2012 would be DOA.
Heard it m'self!
Bleh, my condolences. We probably have the best shots at ousting Altmire and Carney first, with Murphy and Sestak less so, but who knows ? Might luck out. Might bounce Kanjorski out, too, which would be even better. Best of all would be those 5 getting booted and the scum EX-Marine Murtha.
the math is also currently against Senator Obama -- neither candidate can earn the needed majority in the remaining primaries. The decision will be made by the Democrats' superdelegates, who are not obligated to decide whom they support until the convention. And they are empowered to change their allegiance at any time, based on their "read" of what's best for the party. This means that until the first ballot in Denver in August, Hillary still has a chance... some scandal that's worse than Reverend Wright will surface, and surface soon enough to persuade the superdelegates that Obama can't win. The "sitting and waiting" strategy is out of character for the politically-savvy Clintons... using surrogates to nuke Senator Obama so thoroughly that they will create that Obama Can't Win scandal out of what is already out there.thanks neverdem.
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