Team Clinton

msnbc ^ | 9/22/06 | elanor clift

[mathprof]

Bill says ‘a million things can happen,’ but he’s already launched Hillary’s presidential campaign. Can he get her elected?

Suddenly Bill Clinton is everywhere, solving poverty, tackling AIDS, hosting Laura Bush, crafting the Democrats' message and deflecting questions about his wife's likely run for president. He doesn't know if he wants her to run, or if she'll run, and if she runs, he doesn't know that she'll win. “A million things can happen,” he said. But he does know one thing, that if she got elected, “she would be a magnificent president,” he told CNN’s Larry King this week.

Clinton is a force of nature, the shade tree for Hillary as she ventures out of the senatorial cocoon to vie for the presidency. Shade is mostly a good thing, but not always, and the yin-yang role of the former president in his wife's political life is understood by both of them. Unlike Al Gore, Hillary is at ease with her husband’s idiosyncrasies and has learned over a long marriage how to mitigate the damages.

As for Bill, he is her best strategist, with a fingertip feel for the electorate that is unrivaled.[snip]

If she doesn’t run, or runs and loses, she is the natural heir to take over the legacy of Ted Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate. Untethered by presidential ambition, she could travel the world and do the Sunday shows, freed from parsing her words, confident she could keep her seat as long as she wants it. “It’s the deal or no deal—do you gamble on $6 million or walk away with $1 million,” says Bennett. From her sinecure in the Senate, Hillary can take the gamble. Can Democrats?

[mathprof]

please pass the barf bag

[Rocko]

Can he get her elected?

He's gonna have to get her past a few million of us first.

[MaineVoter2002]

Clinton has become an angry man

http://www.cafenetamerica.com

[Cicero]

"During the Clinton Administration, she was kiddingly referred to as Eleanor "Rodham" Clift or Eleanor "Rodham Clifton," because of her fierce defense of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton."

--Wikepedia

[IncPen]

Suddenly Bill Clinton is everywhere, solving poverty, tackling AIDS, hosting Laura Bush, crafting the Democrats' message and deflecting questions about his wife's likely run for president.

Yeah, and it's driving him nuts that the general consensus is that 911 is his fault.

Can he get her elected?

They don't intend to get her elected. 2000 was a dry run. They intend to steal the election.

[BallyBill]

Bill Clinton doesn't realize most people would rather move on. He is so, like last century, man.

[MNJohnnie]

He is going to have to get past about 80 million of us first. All the Republicans and a good chunk of Dems want NOTHING to do with her.

[mkjessup]

"...Ted Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate"

More like a drunken leftist p*ssy.

[Cementjungle]

He is going to have to get past about 80 million of us first.

We're going to see a record turnout of dead voters this time around, I'm sure.

[mrsmith]

Eleanor thinks the herpes sore of the Democrat Party is attractive.

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah,

Say B.J. Clinton, IF we evil Right wingers so distracted you, how come you used the entire on hand supply of US Tomahawk cruise missiles bombing the snot out of Iraq during Impeachment in Dec 1998?

[A CA Guy]

Never elect a sociopath President.
Don't make it worse by electing the knowing enabling power hungry wife of the sociopath.

[Sooth2222]

Can he get her elected?

If he can get Johnnie McCain to run as a candidate on the "Bull Moose" party ticket, he can get her elected.

There have been three (3) (III) Democrats to win a majority of the popular vote since the Civil War (FDR, LBJ and Carter).

All the other times the Demonrats managed to win, there has been a third party candidate splitting the vote.

[Fiddlstix]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Keep blowing that money, Billary. Your skiffy wife won't get elected, her negatives are way too high. They had to move to New York to buy a Senate election.

[sine_nomine]

She must love McCain, then.

[Irish Eyes]

I am so very sick of hearing about this man and his wife. The media are doing their very best to prop them up.

[Txsleuth]

If Bubba keeps losing his cool, like he does on Fox Sunday tomorrow....he will really help ...US!!!

[bpjam]

and millions more Democrats who know that she is a power mad sociopath whom even liberals can't trust not to be free from being thrown under the bus to save her a few points in an approval rating. Angry Bill is somehow going to help make her more likable????

[sgtbono2002]

Eleonor gets up every morning and drinks a glasss of Clinton's urine. She is one sick POS Demorat.

[Miss Marple]

It is obvious to me that Clinton's jovial attitude over the last few years was becaue he thought he could get Hillary elected and assume power through her election, gaining the spotlight once again.

All of a sudden, democrat prospects don't look so good, and no matter how hard he tries, Hillary isn't getting a lot of admirers.

He had counted on HIS charisma to propel her into the White House, but it seems that his glow has dimmed.

Panic has set in, and that accounts for the sudden appearance of Clinton on every channel. He thinks that he can still charm America into electing Hillary.

On every front, however, he is confronted by pesky questions. Did he let OBL escape? Was he AOL on the terror war? Is Hillary too pro-war? Or is she too left?

He can't handle this situation...hence the rage. I predict he will get even worse over the next two months.

[BigLittle]

[Sacajaweau]

Politically...It was a real stupid move on the part of the Dems to make NY her win. A Dem Minnie Mouse could have won in NY. They should have put her in a State that she could have taken away from the Republicans.

AND, she should have run as VP with Kerry in 2004. They would have won and I'm sure that Kerry would have had a disastrous accident while skiing during his Presidency.

[freekitty]

I see his is carrying on with his "I don't know" theme.

[Suzy Quzy]

Hey Elanor...his legacy is UN-RAVELLING!!

[rockrr]

A barfer for sure, but also a message. A message to anyone who gives a crap about the future of our country.

This is their gauntlet and he is their standard bearer. He is waving the "go" flag for every klintoon apologist, every lefty history revisionist, and every liberal maroon to launch their goofy, spin machines. It is the ultimate expression of Bush Derangement Syndrome (frankly I'm surprised that klintoon would have the attention span necessary to catch BSD) and we've known it was coming for a long time.

So what are we gonna do about it?

Hopefully put our internal ideological squabbles on the shelf (at least for a bit) and meet them head-on. The most effective offense against them is the truth. Offered up in huge doses. Use their words (and vids) against them. Beat them up with their own tripe. Expose their hypocrisy and their intrinsic cowardice.

Now would be good! ;'}

[linn37]

During the Monica scandal that man thats on the Imus show ,bernie I think his name is, asked Clift a question. He asked her 'when you found out that interns were giving the President blow jobs did you run over and put in an application?' not the exact quote but funny as hell.

You should have seen her face!

[MNJohnnie]

John McCain cannot pull a Perot. He doesn't have the money nor the organization. The he has such massive negatives especially after the last little bit of grandstanding with Republicans he cannot draw enough from the Republicans to be viable. Democrats will have their own hotly contested race to cross over in large numbers for him.

McCain is politically dead. Perot worked because he was self funded. In 1980 Anderson DID work as a spoiler because he could not raise the money. McCain would be Anderson Redux, not Perot.

[MaineVoter2002]

He said "right wingers" with such hatred.

These people are far from tolerant

[airborne]

Maybe the President should have a talk with his "brother", Bill.

[Maceman]

Love it.

[ozzymandus]

Thanks for reminding me how much I hate eleanor rodham clift.

[gcruse]

"As for Bill, he is her best strategist, with a fingertip feel for the electorate'

Eleanor has the vapors.

[SMM48]

We can’t have an Eleanor Clift thread without this:

I searched and searched and this was the most flattering picture I could find.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Can he get her elected?

NO. Next question.

[woofie]

She can get fat and drunk like Ted Kennedy?

[Sacajaweau]

The Dems sucked McCain in and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. They knew his weakness...POW...and went for it. He's no longer a viable candidate and from the look on his face at that news conference, he knows it.

[popdonnelly]

I don't care what the Clintons are doing, and I don't care what Eleanor Clift is writing.

[Fudd Fan]

Is Eleanor over her orgasm yet? What a moron she is. For that matter, anyone who can't see through either clinton is a fool.

[A CA Guy]

Great points Miss Maple, I think you nailed a lot of the correct reasons for whole meltdown.

[Graymatter]

I searched and searched and this was the most flattering picture I could find.

1st runner-up:

[Cicero]

Hill and bill are both natural-born sore losers. They think they're entitled, and get furious if anyone or anything gets between them and the prize.

[mickey blue eyes]

if you think hes been in a rage wait tell she loses and he won/t get the job he really wants to be in charge of the white house interns

[Miss Marple]

I think that's why he is in a rage now....he sees it slipping away.

[okie01]

They don't intend to get her elected. 2000 was a dry run. They intend to steal the election.

Most likely by teasing McCain into the race as an Independent.

McEgo will be expected to play the same part as Ross Perot played in 1992.

They risk being disappointed, however, when McPain captures more Democrat votes than Republican votes...

[okie01]

McCain is politically dead. Perot worked because he was self funded.

You don't think Soros would fund McCain, even as he was funding the Democrats?

McCain is on Soros' payroll, after all. His Reform PAC is heavy with Soros cash. And McCain-Feingold was clearly part of the Soros agenda.

[nickcarraway]

Bill won with only 43% of thr vote. Either way, she is a win-win for the U.S. left- if she win's great- if she loses even better, because she's going to get Republicans across the spectrum to vote for a left-leaning candidate.