Posted on 03/23/2008 4:38:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Govs. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers; Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers; Eli Manning, New York Giants quarterback and member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Journalists round table.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.
LATE EDITION (CNN) :
Why nominate a guy without a chance to win?
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Because they have a history of doing the same thing
Mondale
McGovern
Am I the only one old enough to remember THE ROBE with Richard Burton?
Don’t answer that!
What ever happened to personal responsibility?
This old mind did not remember Richard Burton being in it.
Let's hope we can help it make a comeback.
A very young and beautiful Burton with the same terrific voice.
Watching Rendell and Richardson trade gripes at one another is proof of how bad things are at DU!
The pick for this weeks power player was O.K. with me. A good old American conservative family the Mannings are!
It is not a matter of scaring her out. If the majority of super delegates declare for Obama prior to the convention, why would she still stay in and wait for the results of the vote at the convention?
Liberal Roundtable would be a Redundancy Infraction.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Larry Kudlow was discussing that on his radio program yesterday.
A correction or two, Fishtalk...
Obama leads Hillary in the popular vote by around 750,000 — so Clinton need to win the remaining primaries with around a 64% majority of the remaining popular vote to pick up enough delegates to win the delegate (non-super) count... I don’t know what that might do to close the gap in actual popular vote cast (and these numbers exclude Florida and Michigan).
So I don’t discount the rest of your prediction — but Hillary and the Dems will have to steal it from Obama, I suspect. I won’t be at all surprised because I just don’t see Hillary waiting another 4 years. This is HER TIME! And the Master will be served!
And I don’t think there’s anything the Democrat party leaders can offer Hillary to prevent her from making a catastrophe out of this years convention/pursuit of her prize. This has been a lifelong ambition and the Shrew will not be denied.
Above is a variation of my prognostication. And you could be right.
Two major things here, and don't think, as Rush pointed out this past Friday, that Hillary and some powerful Dems aren't holed up somewhere working out scenarios that will work...first, my assumption is that Obama is unelectable. I understand that right now the polls are over the place but generally, they're going down for Obama. This could be temporary if Obama can change the subject and just tween you and I, passport files and a bearded Governor Richardson ain't gonna do it. I don't think Obama gets over Revrun Wright save possibly disowning him completely and with fervor, and then he loses the black vote. So I assume that Obama is unelectable due to the Revrun Wright and his follow-up comments about his white grandmother. White people, like it or not, are STILL the majority in this country and few of them, shoot me, are going to pull the lever for this man and his perceived, at best mistrust of white people, at worst, his outright hatred of white people, including his grandmother. So to assume that Obama gets the nomination is to assume the Dems will nominate a totally unelectable candidate. With the Clintons chomping at the bit? I don't see it. Where I could be wrong is that Obama is, in fact, NOT unelectable and that's not at all clear just yet. I think so but on that point I'm a little skittish.
Second, there is the matter of not totally alienating the black base the Dems have abused for so many years. So, Kabar, your scenario could also work. The thing here, the Dems have to get rid of an unelectable Barack Hussein and put up the Hill, and to do so in a way that keeps the African-Americans so supportive of the Dems through the years, HAPPY!
The bigger debate here, as I see it, is whether or not Barack is so damaged as to be unelectable. Because I simply will not buy for one second that if he is unelectable that the Dems will nominate him anyway. Thus you can believe that the Clintons and Dem poohbahs are watching the polls closely, they're likely polling themselves to see how it's playing out, focus groups across the country are being formed. And once it's evident that Barack can't win, IF such a thing is evident....the Clintons and the Dems who don't necessarily even like the Clintons, aren't going to throw the entire Dem party under the bus along with Barack's white grandmother.
Wallace: Obama’s REALLY REALLY ahead in cash.
And just to acknowledge reality, I do understand there is no Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings like during the Carter years, so I will try to be pragmatic about the candidates. As best I can.
It's like the Asimov’s First Law of Robotics:
A robot Conservative may not injure a human being the United States or, through inaction, allow a human being democrat to come to harmpower.
LOL! I guess I'm a geek since I read Asimov!
Absolutely. You said it right there!
I'm so over potato salad.
However, because this is Easter, I'm trying to ignite a lively discussion about Peeps which, after exhaustive research and testing, I consider to be the second greatest invention in the entire history of food!
“Liberal Roundtable would be a Redundancy Infraction.”
I’m sorry. You’re right. LOL
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