SHE HAS NOT GIVEN UP.
Posted on 08/07/2008 5:41:15 AM PDT by MindBender26
It Ain’t Over ‘Till The Fat Lady Sings - - And She Just Hired New Songwriters
The Washington – New York news phones lines were buzzing last night and again this morning. The news is considered so volatile two national news producers were telephoned after 11:30 last night for their input. The story? Hillary Clinton is removing her support (such as it was) from Barack Obama and plans for a knock-down floor fight for the nomination at the Democrat Convention in Denver.
The reason for this is simple, she thinks she can win the nomination, and only she can win the General, and so do many top old line Dems.
Support for Obama from the Washington Dem power elite has been all but absent in the last month. The Super Senators, Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, Schumer and others have not been making headlines for Obama. Terry McAuliffe has been all but silent, and “Screamin’ Dean”; who pressed his mute button? The two co-chairs of the national “Our Great-Great-Great Grandfathers were oppressed… so give us money” crusade, Jackson and Sharpton must be on tour in Mongolia, because they haven’t been making headlines for Obama here.
One overriding argument pervades all their thinking, Obama can’t win the National, and Hillary can. The poll results after Obama’s “We Is The World” tour have been a disaster. It provided a dip, rather than a bump for Barack! Pollsters expected him to be at least 12 to 14 points ahead now, and he is even at best. Obama always gets results about 4% less than he polls, so if the election were held today, it would be McCain in monstrous win.
The Obama decline is clearly indicated in one supposed battleground state, Florida. Obama was up until recently. Now Obama is now down 6 among all voters and one reliable unreleased poll has McCain up 8 among the likely voters. On top of it all, Obama is still sinking, and what possible new message to attract voters does he have? When he shouts “We Must Change”, the crowd is thinking, “Oh, he’s changing his position again.”
I was with him in Lakeland last week (on assignment.) The small crowd was NOT pumped at all.
With that in mind, Hillary is warming up the crowds, and the hormones. She has had the Summer off. She is rested. There was plenty of time for charm lessons.
She can go to Denver not officially supporting, but certainly not discouraging, a floor vote movement. Her mantra? “Count Every Vote!”
The upstart’s message would be very clear; “We Want Hillary For President, and She Wants It Too!”
Hillary would never attack Obama publicly, but loudly decry “Those Republicans for Barack’s disastrous slide in the polls.”
Remember, she is only a few votes behind him in the Dem delegate count, has never released her delegates, and the delegates, especially the Superdelegates, can vote for whomever they wish. There is no legal mandate to support the candidate they promised to support back when they were elected in the primaries.”
Who would support Hillary? The list is extensive.
First, old line Dem Labor. They have votes, a “volunteering” machine and money…. and are far from wild about Obama.
Secondly, the Gay vote. They rarely declare WHY they are for a candidate, but they have huge amounts of money, and are madly in love with Hillary (in more ways than one, perhaps?)
The Dem political machine, all the way down to county level. They want coattails.
The Hispanic vote. Hispanics don’t like Obama, (or Blacks in general) very much. Hispanics love Hillary.
The Women. Down deep, the Rev. Wright may be acceptable to the far-left wing of the Dem party but he scares the hell out of middle of the road women. Dems can expect the Republican 527s to pound that Rev. Wright-Obama connection again and again in the General.
Hard-core Feminists. Do we need an explanation here?
Finally, the Black vote! Of course there would be a revolt in the ranks… for about 10 days. But then Jackson and Sharpton would explain that it was necessary because of the all the damage Republicans had done to Obama…. and a Clinton - -Obama ticket is orgasmic for Dems.
Why would Jackson and Sharpton be onboard? Because they have to be, and because they hate Obama. He didn’t “pay his dues in blood in the streets of Selma.” He didn’t “March with Martin.”
Worst of all for them, an Obama in the White House takes away all the “Poor Oppressed Black People Need Government Help… (and our help, personally) rap that has empowered Jackson and Sharpton for decades. Also, Obama is an ACORN man, not Rainbow/PUSH or National Action Network.
Obama would be told, “You cannot win. That’s your fault. Take the VP slot and smile… and be President in eight years, or leave quietly now.”
Bottom line, Hillary reassembles the entire classic Democrat – Liberal coalitions Dems need to win. High-level Dems are not dumb, at least not stupid, at least in the world of down and dirty electoral politics. They will do what they need to do to win.
In the end, the media would love the fight and the Obama supporters would hate it… for a few weeks, then fall in line behind Hillary. They are pragmatists, not racial ideologs. They would do anything to defeat McCain.
Will this happen? Time will tell, but Hillary is certainly, and quietly, pushing it very hard.
LOL. You are a maroon.
I think he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Is it vanity, simply because some liberal journalist didn’t write it first?...
There would have to be some plausible excuse for dumping Obama, though. So, if some really damaging story comes out about Obama, we know from where it is coming.
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This sounds like a power play to get the VP slot for Hillary and/or to pay off her campaign debts.
No, regardless of content its VANITY because there is no link on a “news” thread. EOM.
True. If His Highest Anointed One gets screwed at the last moment, way too many Obama koolaid drinkers and blacks will boycott for Hillary to win.
This can not happen folks. The fix is in. The power mongers in the Democrat Party have spoken and they don’t want Hillary—even if the rank and file Democrats do. Hillary has something up her sleeve but, barring a major scandal or an “accident,” Obama is the man. There is no way she will get the nod this time. If she did carry out this plan there would be riots in the black quarters of every major city in America. Thousands will die and the skies will darken with burning stores. It will be worse than France was a few years ago. It would ruin the Democrat Party. Cause a nuclear winter and end civilization as we know it. The only winners would be Jessie Jackson and his kind of black leadership. Obama will become a sympathetic character and a shoe in next time around. NO, Hillary is out in 2008.
Where will the money come from? Her campaign is deeply in debt....and this will be expensive.
I think there will be riots in Denver...not just blacks but general moonbat mayhem if the Clinton's try to take this away from their messiah. I don't think we'd see blacks rioting all over the country though. What I do think we'll see is a deep wound between rank and file black democrats and the party.
This is all good. When is the last time the democrats won a presidential election with comfortable margins? 1964. And it took an assasination to make that happen. The 'rats can't win without the so-called Reagan democrats...many of whom will not vote for obama and they can't win without solid black support, which will likely evaporate if obama is overtaken by hillary. I'll tell you...I can't wait for this convention to start!
We will take things away from you for the greater good.
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Get over yourself. This article is well written, thoughtful and NEWSWORTHY whether it’s been published in the anti-American left wing press or not.
SHE HAS NOT GIVEN UP.
A lot of articles being written about this............
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/could_obama_lose_the_nominatio_1.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/hillarys_growing_shadow.html
http://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/could-hillary-still-be-in-it/
Heresy! : )
That's "We Be the World."
Pgk, what are you talking about? Your precoffee rant is annoying. There is not one word in any reply or post about the content of the article. It was directed at the lack of a link to the original content. Move along.
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