Posted on 01/20/2007 2:32:19 PM PST by MindBender26
As many FReepers know, I’m spent many years in TV network news. I polled old friends and acquaintances today and with one exception, all agreed that Hillary Clinton’s announcement today that she is running for President (yawn) is a HUGE misstep.
First, she did it at a time guaranteed to get her minimum television exposure. The Saturday HUT (Homes Using Television) numbers are miniscule. When was the last time the Saturday Noon News was a “must see” for anyone?
In addition, anyone watching TV today or tomorrow is probably a man and he is tuned into sports. Not Hillary’s target audience!
She should have announced on 4:00 P.M on Thursday, after appearing earlier in the day on GMA, Today, CBSMN, and especially “The View” to coyly announce that she just might have something importance to announce “soon.”
By announcing at 4:00 on a Thursday, she would have been the lead story on all that evening’s newscasts. Thursday is often the second highest rated show of the week. Then she would have been topic #1 that night and all day Friday. She could have been back on the AM shows and The View on Friday, perhaps even a quick Oprah appearance. Friday night’s national news shows would have been all reaction stories, a visit to her hometown, yada yada yada, etc. She would have owned 36 hours of prime TV.
As it is, she chose the absolutely worst time. The Sunday AM shows will be all over it, but no undecided voters watch those shows. She will get no mojo or movement from them. By Monday, it’s old news.
Next her method of announcement. She posted it as a statement on her website.
Idiotic.
She could have gathered 2000 screaming, sigh waving supporters on the Capitol steps, balloons, a band, etc. Could have been a huge hoop de do! CNN, FNC and others would have covered it live, etc. As it was, nothing! In the words of one senior editor, “She mailed it in!”
Next, she has based her campaign on “Stopping Bush.” That’s got about 30 days worth of legs. In addition, everything she says for the next 20 months will be seen as “political.” She just threw away any chance she had of being seen as a healer or “statesman” like. Politically, she just painted a huge target on her back. Every time she says word one on any issue, an “independent” third party spokesperson can rake her over the coals, and the Republicans can stay above it all.
Finally, everyone sees it for what it is. She panicked over Obama.
He is a 60 day flash in the pan, this year’s Weasley Clark or Howard Dean. America is not about to elect a Black, Muslim-trained, admitted cocaine-using man President, no matter how good he looks on TV… this month.
The media loves him…. this month. The media that loves him now will fill the air with “investigative stories” about him next month. By April at the latest, he will be very old news
Bottom line on that issue; Hillary stood eye to eye against a totally non-electable presidential candidate…. from her own party…. and she blinked!
Mark Halperin at ABC is gushing over her announcement, but everyone else is saying “Huh?”
Another said, "She has been planning this for 20 or 30 years, and this is her best shot!?!?" "What's next, shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve?"
Hey, you just poked me in my mind's eye! Ghaaaack!
OMG LJ that so funny yeah least Hillary is blond LOL!
New Bonnie and Clyde team hey if Warren Beatty want revisit that perfect casting Bill and Hillary
Call me nuts, but I think she is more concerned about Bill Richardson's announcement than anyone elses this week. Of all the Rats, he has the most appeal.
"Now Gore can trump them all by not announcing until late in 2007. According to the KosNazis, this race is Gore's to lose."
I believe I read that Gore has already announced that he will NOT run for president. Anyone?
193 nations in the world, and she wants to be President of our country. Why couldn't she set her sights on one of the other countries?
I can help, Hillary's campaign slogan ... "Elect me, get another 9/11 for free". Snappy, got a nice ring to it.
There's the Drudge Radio thread tomorrow night. "Tomorrow's news today" as he likes to say.
You bet she has and you bet that's the advise she was given. These bozos all have handlers....and:
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
"Next, she has based her campaign on “Stopping Bush.”"
Ohmigawd!! The presidential term limits will stop Bush. Talk about fighting the last war! Maybe there's a place for the Dick Morrisses and Carl Roves of the world after all.
Sorry to be crude, but national DhimmiCRATS -- racists that they are -- will not support a "fat, greasy-haired Mexican."
You think? I don't see anything appealing about him. I don't even see him being much help as veep. He comes off as a disheveled slob. And then there's his pro-baseball lie.
Hillary: "Let's chat."
The news is doing all hillary all day. Get the barf bags ready.
And most of us here laugh, but what the heck. :)
Well I don't know if what Rush and Hannity have been talking about is all correct or whatever. But according to them, Richardson has been an aggressive tax cutter and I believe he is pro second amendment.
That's funny, and Halperin flat out admitted that the news rooms are full of liberal bias during a Hugh Hewitt interview.
I don't think this was a panic mistake, though. She's too cold and calculating for that. There must be some reason she wants to ease into the race quietly, on a weekend, like this. Maybe to show that she's just a regular, for the people guy, and not doing it for the recognition. Build it from quiet to crescendo.
Whatever the reason, it ain't for the right reasons.
Oh, and she really has nothing to lose. She will not give up her Senate seat, and if she loses, she is still Senator for Life with New York voters, just as Ted Kennedy is Senator for Life with Massachusetts voters.
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