Why Hillary Lost

NewsMax ^ | Jan. 04, 2008 | By: Philip V. Brennan

[jdm]

It was inevitable, the media and her vast army of consultants, aides and hired attack dogs assured us, Hillary Clinton would walk all the way to the presidency with easy victories over a slate of lackluster rivals in the primaries.

To hear them tell it you would have thought her campaign was a powerful locomotive speeding down the rails to the White House, unstoppable.

Thursday night it came off the tracks, derailed by the equivalent of the little train that wouldn’t say no.

Barack Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics, a year ago largely unknown, not only defeated Hillary Clinton in their first face-to-face encounter, he walloped her, winning about 36 percent of the vote while Hillary was fighting to climb out of a third place finish, locked in a neck-and-neck battle with John Edwards, with each getting about 30 percent.

The results of tonight’s contest in Iowa confirm the speculation that Mrs. Clinton’s closet full of skeletons would emerge to haunt her as the contest developed. As early as last April, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote that Hillary was rapidly losing her lead over Obama, while the number of people who viewed her unfavorably was steadily increasing.

“Hillary isn’t wearing well,” Morris and McGann wrote. “It seems as if the more people see her, the less they like her. Now, for the first time, her low likeability levels are costing her votes.”

Her attempts to soften her image and shed the popular image of herself as a vindictive, cold, calculating opportunist and remake her image into that of a soft caring human only served to convince much of the public that they are watching a contrived performance meant to conceal her true nature which on the record shows she is anything but the kind, warmhearted human being she wants the voters to think she is.

Too many remember her shocking displays of ruthlessness, such as her cold hearted dismal of the White House Travel Office staff, or her use of thuggish private detectives to harass and slander the women who had been sexually mistreated by her husband.

Barack Obama cleverly tapped into the public’s weariness with the White House being occupied by only two families since 1988, the Bush family and the Clintons. He recognized the public’s desire for new faces and new policies and he made change his rallying cry and rode it to victory.

Hillary Clinton underestimated the public’s resentment against her, and discounted their revulsion with the sleazy conduct she and her husband displayed in the White House, typified by their attempted swiping of White House furnishings and artifacts when they left the mansion, and her husband’s last minute pardoning of the likes of fugitive felon Mark Rich.

Lincoln put it best “You can fool some the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

Iowa may not mark the end of Hillary’s White House dreams, but it is inevitable that it is the beginning of the end.

[ex-Texan]

Perhaps Hillary lost because Obama received more votes? Even Edwards garnered more votes than The Supreme Witch. Click the image to read more reports from Iowa.

Just pray Obama keeps on winning. The thought of another corrupt, power addicted Clinton in the White House turns my stomach. Back in the early 1990's, I heard Secret Service personnel complaining loudly about the Clintons. Later I personally saw photos of Bubba higher than a kite in the WH. 'Nuff said. If I lived in a primary state that could impact this election, I would have registered so that I might be able to help assure Hillary's defeat.

The Hilabeast must not win !

[Brilliant]

Uma does. I think.

[tips up]

Agree about Obama’s speech. I don’t agree with him on any issues, but he is inspiring. I can see why people are drawn to him. And not Hillary.

[kinsman redeemer]

Because she didn't get enough votes.

Because people just, well, hate her.

[snowrip]

Just had a great idea for a political cartoon: Hillary saying aloud to some undecided voters that she’s the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy... while she’s struggling to hold shut a closet door that is threatening to burst open under the weight of a thousand skeletons.

[turducken]

vindictive, cold, calculating opportunist

That just about sums it up.

[NeoCaveman]

Because people just, well, hate her.

People came out of the wood work just to vote against her.

It was kind of cool.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Hillary didn't lose because people didn't know her, she lost because they do.

If she is even challenged by Osama Hussein Obama in New Hampshire, look for her machine to destroy him - and not just politically - arkancide not out of the question.

[NCC-1701]

That’s why it’s a moral imperative to elimenate her in the primaries. End any possible way she could get the dimoCRACKtic nimination. Whoever the dims do put up will hopefully lose to the Pub’s guy. Hitlery will be 61 this October. She loses her more than ample a$$ in the primaries and she would have to wait four more years to even try and run again. She would then be 65. Perhaps the fire and steam will have been long extinguished from her political blood so the threat of her in the White House will be removed. Let hope so. This is only round 1. As the defeats pile up, it should be crystal clear to her that only her ego would tell her to press on to ultimate defeat.

She should pull out way before the November elections so she would be spared the final acknowledgement of how much this country really hates her. That is something she just couldn’t live with. But the rest of us could.

[George Smiley]

It won’t really be over until she’s hit by a falling house.

[ml/nj]

I’ll light a candle.

Out, out, brief candle!
She's but a walking shadow, a sad liar
That struts and frets her hour upon the stage
Hopefully heard no more. It is a tale
Told of an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

(Apologies to WS.)

ML/NJ

[maica]

with Bill, the mask almost never slips.

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Bill is such a hollow man that he is like a mirror, reflecting back to any person or crowd what they like to see. When he is alone, he is nothing -— invisible. When a president has to resort to Monica phone sex he reveals his true emptiness.

Now he reminds me of an inflatable toy or Christmas lawn ornament that is slowly losing air and shrinking.

[Holicheese]

How dare the little people not recognize how sweet and likable Hillary really is!!!
How DARE THEY!!! Heads will roll!

[Malsua]

Obama’s speech after last night’s win was positive and inspiring

I didn't see that speech. That said, when I saw his speech at the 2004 Convention, it was a GREAT speech. I don't agree with him on pretty much everything. I mean, we both might like ham and swiss sandwiches but that's probably where it ends. He's a fantastic speaker. Hillary on the other hand comes off as a phony, shrill harpy. Both marxists will rape me out of everything, Obama will actually make it sound like a good thing while he's doing it. Imagine an Obama / Huckabee election. How does one vote in that case? The admitted socialist vs the closet socialist. The only way to win in that case is not to play the game, except...100 million or so fellow Americans are gonna play anyway and I have to live with the results.

[sergeantdave]

Hillary is the first candidate to try to walk naked Marxism into the whitehouse, and the rat voters ain’t buying it.

My respect for rat voters has gone up a quarter-inch. Okay, make that an eighth.

[tioga]

hit by a falling house you say?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Obama’s performance at the 04 DNC Convention brought him to everybody’s attention. He gave the single best speech by either party that summer. Cuomo was ultimately unable to capitalize for a variety of reasons. It appears that Obama has...at least to this point.

[georgia peach]

I think that Teresa Kerry hurt her husband’s campaign and I think that Mrs.Obama will do the same.Unless they can keep her quiet, as they seemed to have done recently,she will be a real minuis for him which is fine by me.

[Jim Noble]

That’s why it’s a moral imperative to elimenate her in the primaries

I am 90% decided that I will pull a RAT ballot on Tuesday and vote for Obama.

NH is Hillary moonbat headquarters. If she loses here, she can't win anywhere.

Playing a small part in eliminating the Clinton crime family from public life is too sweet to pass up.

[Rummyfan]

Why did Hillary Clinton lose?

Because she is basically unlikeable and the more people see and hear her, the less they can stand her!

Consider: seventy-percent, SEVENTY-PERCENT!, of Democrats in Iowa voted against her! After several months of intense campaigning there. She's in trouble.