Posted on 05/18/2008 6:59:59 PM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
just saw this on another web site -WOT Research:
http://www.rantburg.com:81/warticle.php?D=2008-05-16&ID=239214&HC=3
#12 I’ve been hearing this one from political people I had contact with when I was trying to help with the THompson campaign out west.
Been hearing it for a month.
Goes like this:
1) Hillary has it.
2) Hillary knows that no matter what, the idiots who have bought into Messiah Obama will blame her and abandond her if she “steals” the nomination from ObamaChrist.
3) Hillary also knows that the next 4 years are going to be rough - we cannot relaly disengate form Iraq, and oil supplies are going to be messed up, Chavez is stirring things up, the Chinese are going to be a-holes, and there will be a terror strike on US Soil. Meanign no matter who the Pres is, the PRes will get the blame.
4) Hillary also knows no matter who the president is, the next 4 years are going to be run by the Dems in Congress - meaning a D president will get little credit for anything that goes right.
So do the math.
In the case of point 1: Hillary is seen as a crippler, nasty and vidictive if she uses the tap, and the Obamanuts will split the party if she reesorts to such things to win.
In the case of point 2: Hillary gets blamed and is a one-termer.
In the case of Point 3: not only is she unpopular due to destrpying the “messiah”, the congress takes all the credit.
Now consider this:
She holds off, battles to the end, and makes sure the **GOP** uses the tape AFTER Obama has it locked up the nomination at the convention.
The results?
1) She is the undisputed leader for 2012.
2) Gigantic “I told you so” she can beat down ANY opposition with.
3) 4 years to grandstand and pick her spots.
4) bad stuff happens as is likely (above)? McCain gets the blame, and she gets to smash an unpopular man who is now 76 and politically weak. Easy win for her.
5) Congress gets redit for success - she gets some of by association.
The smartest possible play at this point is for Hillary to battle to the end, the make sure that the stake is driven in to completely utterly destroy Obama, and the Clinton machine puts the shiv in deep and gives it a twist, HARD, in the twits who back Obama.
So Hillary plays the role of the victim, grabs the role of the uniter and savior of the Dem party after it collapses under the wieght of Obama’s fallen god disaster, and rolls up everything with a big win after McCain has done the heavy lifiting in 2012.
If I were her, thats exactly how I would play it. Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-16 21:21|| Front Page|| Top
Hillary wants to win and wants to win this year if at all possible. She will blame anything bad that happens on the prior administration.
She will find a way to get the tape out (if it exists) before the convention, in a way that does not leave her fingerprints on it. Already rumors are floating that it will be released by gop operatives. Super delegates will jump ship, reversing his lead and giving her the nomination.
But we may not have long to wait. The rumors now say this will be released tomorrow morning, just in time for the final 2 dem primaries.
Popcorn anyone?
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