Thanks Ernest. The Empty Suit knew Hillary wouldn’t make a convincing running mate, would make him look even more like a sock puppet, and — more to the point — his campaign and supporters (like those at DailyKos, and DU) vilified her and her first black husband beyond any credible reconciliation. Obama-Clinton would have been like Stevenson-Kefauver.
Hillary Supporters Going Wild Over Palin Pick (in a good way!)
Hillary Clinton Forum
Posted on 08/29/2008 2:49:02 PM PDT by hawaiian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2070804/posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estes_Kefauver#1952_election
In the 1952 presidential election... Although Kefauver would go on to win twelve of the fifteen primaries that were held that year, losing three to “favorite son” candidates, primaries were not, at that time, the main method of delegate selection for the national convention... received 3.1 million votes, while the eventual 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, received only 78,000 votes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estes_Kefauver#1956_election
... Stevenson, however, was able to defeat Kefauver in the 1956 Oregon, Florida and California primaries and, overall, ended up winning more primary votes than Kefauver in 1956, before being re-nominated for president by the Democrats at the 1956 Democratic Party’s national convention... Stevenson went on to lose the election to Eisenhower once again, this time by an even bigger margin than in 1952.
...On August 8, 1963, Kefauver, a heavy smoker and drinker... suffered a massive heart attack on the floor of the Senate while attempting to place an antitrust amendment into a NASA appropriations bill that would have required that companies benefitting financially from the outcome of research subsidized by NASA reimburse NASA for the cost of the research.
Obama Loses Gay-Media King
New York Post | August 25, 2008
Posted on 08/27/2008 12:44:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068907/posts
[snip] “I thought, ‘Get over yourself!’ I had literally written out a check to the Obama campaign. And then I saw him in front of an evangelical group in Anaheim,” he said. Before Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum, both Obama and McCain defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. “I thought, ‘Wow! He just threw the gay community under the bus,’ “ Colichman said. “My partner looked over at me, and we tore up the check.” [end]
Some Clinton Donors Are Contributing to McCain
ABC News | August 28, 2008 | MARCUS BARAM
Posted on 08/28/2008 11:07:52 AM PDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069967/posts
Some Clinton Donors Are Contributing to McCain
ABC News | 8/28/2008 | MARCUS BARAM
Posted on 08/28/2008 2:09:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070086/posts