I'm thinking Hillary will fight to the bloody end...that she would rather her good friend, "Republican" John McCain, become POTUS than concede defeat by someone in her own Party.
Posted on 03/24/2008 9:26:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign.
First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up.
Second, Obama’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes.
Third, as Noam Scheiber of The New Republic has reported, most superdelegates have accepted Nancy Pelosi’s judgment that the winner of the elected delegates should get the nomination. Instead of lining up behind Clinton, they’re drifting away. Her lead among them has shrunk by about 60 in the past month, according to Avi Zenilman of Politico.com.
In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near.
Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance.
Five percent.
Let’s take a look at what she’s going to put her party through for the sake of that 5 percent chance: The Democratic Party is probably going to have to endure another three months of daily sniping. For another three months, we’ll have the Carvilles likening the Obamaites to Judas and former generals accusing Clintonites of McCarthyism. For three months, we’ll have the daily round of résumé padding and sulfurous conference calls. We’ll have campaign aides blurting “blue dress” and only-because-he’s-black references as they let slip their private contempt.
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Dumb idea.
And David Brooks and the Jason Blair Gazette will happily report every incident on the front page - THE COMIC SECTION!
In NJ, party affiliation only matters in the PRIMARY ELECTION. In the GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, a voter can cross politicla lines as desired!
Do you really want to read ONLY columns, articles and blogs written by conservatives? What do we learn from an echo chamber?...............
Learn a lot.... go over to DU. The far-left is sooooooooo funny and full of audacity and hope.
Actually,, that was King Louis 15th, who accurately saw the end coming for the Bourbon monarchy.
Nit pick ping!
Apre moi, les Deluge...
Louis XV
The only bad thing about this whole deal is that we still are stuck with McCain.
What’s the saying, ‘even if you win, you’re still retarded.’
Wait - is that sniper fire in the background?
She’s not in a bunker. She’s still running free and trying her best to skuttle the SS Obama. Bill Clinton was in NC last week, saying Hillary would be here each week between now and the primary May 6. He said NC could determine the nomination. If Obama’s numbers among white males improve by May 6, I may vote for Hillary. Once the Dem horse race is over, the MSM will focus all their energy on McCain. Being sidelined has helped his chances enormously. May the Dem chaos continue and grow all the way to Denver!
I'm thinking Hillary will fight to the bloody end...that she would rather her good friend, "Republican" John McCain, become POTUS than concede defeat by someone in her own Party.
I know I'm hopelessly naive, but I somehow managed to think that, since the NYT called this guy a "conservative," there'd be at least some time when I could agree with a little of what he wrote. How wrong I was. He's a hopeless bed wetter.
The stated German objective at Verdun was to draw the French into continued battle and "bleed them white."
Is Hillary trying to bleed Obama white?
More like Hillary and Obama are bleeding the Democrat party of all colors.
When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.
Why does she go on like this? [Duh!] Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? [Yes.] Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance? [Yes!] Are leading Democrats so narcissistic that they would create bitter stagnation even if they were granted one-party rule? [Oh God, yes!!!]
Bracketed comments mine.
You are sooo right. Mr. Limbaugh is on top in his field as a radio talk show host and "entertainer" and that is where he should remain.
Being a top radio show host does not equate to being a top political operative. His episode of being "in the loop" as Newt delivered the Congress to the Republicans with his 'Contract with America' has allowed his self importance as political king maker go to his head.
Mr. Limbaugh doesn't realize that his on-air contribution was joined with political maneuvering on capitol-hill, way beyond his involvement or knowledge. He served as the GOP public water-boy, for which he received public and private accolades but that hardly qualifies him as a political mover and shaker.
Mr. Limbaugh should contain and constrain his sophomoric enthusiasm to insert himself in an arena of a 'sport' in which he lacks the necessary skill sets, unless he is beginning to show his true colors of team Clinton!
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