Posted on 05/12/2008 9:08:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pressed her campaign ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia primary as Democratic Party leaders warned her not to do or say anything that could hurt Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in November.
Clinton is considered likely to win West Virginia's primary, perhaps by as many as 30 percentage points, but the victory in the small state is not expected to shake Obama's apparent hold on the party's nomination.
What Democrats fear could have a lasting impact is what Clinton might say about Obama that could split the party or be gleefully reused by Republican John McCain in the fall election.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, an Obama supporter, compared Clinton to the Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction" -- a spurned woman turned stalker who was apparently drowned in a bathtub only to jump up one more time to be shot dead.
"Glenn Close should have stayed in that tub, and Sen. Clinton has had a remarkable career and needs to move to the next step, which is helping elect the Democratic nominee," Cohen said during a local TV interview. He later apologized for his comments.
Onetime Democratic contender John Edwards was more delicate in his warning that Clinton be careful how she campaigns in the few remaining primaries.
"She has to be really careful she's not damaging our prospects, the Democratic Party and our cause for the fall," Edwards said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
But there's also the message former President Bill Clinton delivers to blue collar white voters as he makes his way throughout West Virginia, painting Obama and his supporters as looking down on these voters.
"They make a lot of fun of me because I like to campaign in places like this," he told a small-town crowd in West Virginia this weekend. "They said I had been exiled to rural America, as if that were a problem."
A big decision Hillary Clinton must make as she goes forward is whether to spend money from her campaign, which is already in debt, to run negative TV ads against Obama. Right now she's on TV in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oregon, but the ads are all positive. Will she pull the trigger and run ads trashing the man who is all but certain to be her party's nominee?
Clinton spent her third day out of the last five days stumping in West Virginia, but her own optimism may have slipped at times.
In the town of Eleanor, W. Va., Sunday night, it wasn't clear whether Clinton tripped over a pronoun or was trying to score points with women voters.
"All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about, if he actually cares about it," she said at a rally. "He"?
She caught herself. "More likely, if she cares about it," Clinton added.
Publicly, Clinton rejected any suggestion that she drop out and quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, saying, "A woman is like a tea bag. You never know strong she is until she is in hot water."
"Glenn Close should have stayed in that tub, and Sen. Clinton has had a remarkable career and needs to move to the next step, which is helping elect the Democratic nominee," Cohen said during a local TV interview. He later apologized for his comments.
Comparing Hillary to a mad stalking woman?
Priceless!
Good analogy. Hillary reminds me of Glenn Close, in appearance and mannerisms to the Glenn Close character in that movie.
and in the Star Wars analogy, Obama is Luke Skywalker, and Hillary is Darth Vader.
“All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about, if he actually cares about it,” she said at a rally. “He”?
She caught herself. “More likely, if she cares about it,” Clinton added.
She knows it’s over.
Glenn Close - 'Fatal Attraction' - 1987. Not...
Hillary Clinton - 'Operation Chaos' - 2008.
Get back to the kitchen woman!! Dems are so fair and open minded.
She’s the girlfriend, the wife, who can’t let go of the relationship. The late night calls, the showing up at the job....when any girl I know finds themself in a position like that, having to leave a relationship they don’t want to I give them one little piece of advice..GET OUT WITH YOUR DIGNITY. When you look back on your life, the things you regret are usually the things you had control over...the things you say and the thing you do. Whatever you say can only hurt you, they rarely help.
She needs to get out, NOW.
I have to say this about Mrs. Clinton. I hate her with the force of a thousand suns, but she has been the hardest working candidate I’ve seen in my lifetime...I forgive her a slip of the tongue...who cares, really?
It’s pretty funny that she’s making her own party nervous. Now they are starting to see her for what she really is.
Clinton rejected any suggestion that she drop out
and quoted Bill Clinton, saying,
“A woman is like a tea bag.
Use it once and throw it away.”
Go Hillary....why should she quit? Obama had NOT closed the deal....they are neck and neck.
with Cindy McCain as Cruella.
It’s fine for us to heap insults on Hillary, but when the Dems start doing it, it’s really ugly. I think it will backfire. After all, she was the nominee apparent and still has plenty of support from people who may well go to the polls in droves and help put her if not over the top, at least on the brink.
As usual, the Dems are the ones hurting themselves by publicly insulting their prominent, powerful and in many circles beloved candidate.
We are all supposed to forget that the Hildab*tch has kept her finger in the eye of all Americans as long as she’s had the chance. The dems don’t want her to say anything to hurt them? Is this short memory or just wishful thinking.
Barbara Olson would be loving this. I miss her.
So, hillllereee IS indeed like a tea bag.
She IS in hot water and has proven herself not only WEAK but a sore loser as well.
one good thing I like about it is seeing a clintin BEG. The smartest woman in the world and she couldn’t get the nomination and now she is out there begging while splitting her party for her own selfish agenda.
Now she has become a laughing stock from her own party as well as those on the other side of the aisle AND...she has shown herself for what she truly is. A Power Driven human being that cannot handle defeat. She will drag herself down lower and lower and lower and no one will give a damn about her or her husband. It’s their choice.
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