BILL CLINTON — FROM SAVIOR TO POTENTIAL SCAPEGOAT IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS

Power Line ^ | OCTOBER 24, 2012 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

[kingattax]

If President Obama loses this election, the Democrats will need a scapegoat. The obvious scapegoat would be Obama himself. But he’s been getting free passes all of his life, and the left-liberals who comprise the Democratic mainstream will think long and hard about holding him accountable now.

For one thing, he’s manifestly one of them. For another, he’s African-American.

Accordingly, the need for a different scapegoat would arise. That scapegoat would have to be someone significant enough to be plausible in the role and someone not strongly associated with the Party’s left-liberal faction.

Someone like Bill Clinton.

[Steely Tom]

Here's an interesting FR thread from ten years ago: My Favorite Clinton Lie.

[Brad from Tennessee]

NYT: How Bill Clinton may have hurt the Obama campaign

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950129/posts

[Don Corleone]

That scapegoat would have to be someone significant enough to be plausible in the role and someone not strongly associated with the Party’s left-liberal faction.

Someone like Bill Clinton.

Surely you jest or did your space shuttle just dock from Mars? If Obama is Jesus Christ then Clinton, to the Progressives, is God the Father. I won't speculate on Hillary.

[Steely Tom]

That scapegoat would have to be someone significant enough to be plausible in the role and someone not strongly associated with the Party’s left-liberal faction.

As I read down this thread, my peripheral vision registered the last three words of your first paragraph as "self lubrication" before my eye actually got to them.

I just thought you should know that.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Senator Teddy Kennedy is the real scapegoat if Obama loses. The Obama camp modeled its strategy on the 1994 U.S. Senate race where Mitt Romney challenged Kennedy. Kennedy used Romney's founding of Bain Capital and all the associated class warfare boogymen against Romney. Some of Kennedy's campaign commercials featured laid-off workers who, 18 years later, popped up in Obama’s TV ads. The problem with adopting Kennedy's strategy is that nobody in Massachusetts could have beaten him for any office. So the theme of his campaign was irrelevant.

[Randy Larsen]

Birds of a feather.

[huckfillary]

When your enemies are fighting amongst themselves, just shut up and break out the popcorn.

[Randy Larsen]

Good time to pull out the keyhole telescope to view in 9 power so we don’t miss anything!

[RedMDer]

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