Posted on 02/20/2008 5:42:10 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
February 20, 2008
Analysis: Clinton could turn toxic as options dry up
The Wisconsin defeat for Hillary Clinton means that she has to win big on March 4 - and may campaign more negatively
A few months back, as Barack Obamas campaign was just beginning to look like it might seriously challenge Hillary Clintons presidential ambitions, a senior Obama campaign official sent a warning to his staff.
It was a succinct message designed to forewarn and forearm his people against what was expected to be a ferocious onslaught from an increasingly desperate Clinton campaign.
Better get your hazmat suits on, the memo told them
Mrs Clinton is running out of options. Theres a growing sense that she may now choose to go aggressively negative. She is under pressure from some in her campaign to step up the attacks on Mr Obama, especially over his inexperience.
The Clinton campaign may need to reach deeper into the negative campaigning armoury if they are to have any chance. They will doubtless be looking at Mr Obamas remarkably low negative ratings in polls and wondering how they can push them up.
Until now the danger has been that negative attacks could backfire. That is a risk that will probably now have to be taken, even if it damages the Democratic party as a whole. The Clintons have only a matter of days to save their lifelong aspirations. They will not give them up without a fight.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
The Clintons have a very real problem. Any attack on Obama risks offending the Black community and jeopardizing future support for the Democrats. The Clintons aren’t dumb just arrogant beyond belief. Desparation could win out against common sense. If the Clintons turn the campaign into a free fire zone the last man standing will be McCain.
Many Democrats may be pissed enough to opt out of voting in November.
He could work on her plantation...
Hmmmm.... we have two Dukaki and one youthful, I got a dream and years of diversity education behind US.
It’s a loooong way to November...............
Last night she felt the need to mention something about a woman sending her $10 here, and a "cranky conservative man" sending her a few dollars there. She may as well have had a flashing neon sign on her podium blaring "SEND CASH NOW."
And she just wasted big bucks on that incredibly stupid "night-shift" commercial that will get laughed off the airwaves and parodied on YouTube.
I think she's had to quietly "borrow" millions more "from herself" these last couple of weeks. But now she's in the hole again...without a peep about anything additional being borrowed these last two weeks. Now what will she say about that cash, in light of now needing even more?
Hillary: OPEN YOUR BOOKS.
She is sunk. Her cash swamp is dry.
Even before McCain became the nominee which state had more Republicans voting than Democrats... (including those liberal independents that gave McCain his title) To date more liberals have turned out to vote than have Republicans.
I know!
A commercial:
A little girl is picking daisies.
Behind her a loud noise and she jerks up with a gasp.
Then the image of a mushroom cloud.
Then a voice over: With a nuclear Iran on the horizon, would you trust someone with inexperience to keep you safe?
That should win the election right then and there for Hillary! Right?
The Democratic base is coalescing around Obama to a greater extent than the Republican base is around McCain. Hispanics, women, and blue collar whites are beginning to shift to Obama. OTOH, the Wisconsin and Washington primaries show McCain winning 55% and 49% of the vote, respectively, against a nearly broke and hopeless Mike Huckabee, a man who withdrew two weeks ago (Romney), and a de facto dropout from the race (Ron Paul). Any extralegal or illegal activity by the Clintons to eliminate Obama would lead to a Democratic disaster in November. The Democrats, both the rank and file and the elite, will revolt en masse.
One cannot underestimate the depths to which evil will stoop so that power may be won.
GAME ON! Grab your popcorn!
Consider Wisconsin last night. 92 delegates up for grabs and even though Obama won by 17 points (a landslide by any definition), he will only "net" about 10 delegates from Wisconsin.
Of course, this works both ways. Even if the Clintons were to win in Texas, Ohio and PA, their margin of victory would have to be about 40 points in each state to pull even with Obama. So if the Clintons win each of those states by 5-10 points, they are still going to be behind in the delegate count.
So barring a total collapse by the Obama campaign, he is going to head into the convention with a lead (most likely a healthy lead) in pledged delegates.
Now everybody talks about the Clintons pulling a coup in the convention with the superdelegates. I just don't see that happening. Long before the convention, the superdelegates will get behind who they perceive as the "winner" and barring some ridiculous set of events, that can only be Obama.
Having said that, I dont think ANYTHING can stop Obama. All the Clinton haters here may get a Pyrrhic victory out of the whole thing.
I have to say, I thought the Clintons would have something on Obama up their sleeve to dump in the media by now.
The problem HRC has is that the attacks that will work on Obama won’t help HER...they will help McCain. She can’t really go negative on Obama’s liberalism, socialism etc etc for obvious reasons.
They have 2 weeks to do some covert war ops in Texas, Ohio and PA to bring up the cocaine tryst rumors, that may be all they have left. It would have to be underground and even that would be risky.
Dick Morris has an obsessive hatred of Hillary Clinton. I honestly believe he wants Obama since he's a Democrat at heart. If you watch him being interviewed he will only speak of defeating Hillary...he doesn't really care who wins after she's gone.
Please add me to any ping list you have re: the trial of Her Thighness.
Only after it is executed...
I just heard the funniest thing on the radio, actually laughed out loud as opposed to just typing LOL...
They played a portion of a hilldog speech with the “Mars Attacks” “Ack Ack Ack” going on in the background.
It probably will be .... right after they get him ...
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