Posted on 12/12/2006 1:03:56 PM PST by Quilla
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate.
DeLay met with conservative bloggers at a weekly lunch meeting hosted by HUMAN EVENTS and the Heritage Foundation. He is making the rounds in Washington to promote his new blog and activism website, TomDeLay.com.
DeLay said he was motivated to start the blog and create the Grassroots Action and Information Network after observing the success of liberal organizations such as MoveOn.org, the Media Fund and Americans Coming Together. He said he hopes to utilize some of the same tools to help Republicans win elections.
It’s this liberal coalition, working in concert with the news media, that will propel Clinton to the White House in 2008, DeLay said. “Hillary will be the next president of the United States because they have built a coalition,” he said.
DeLay also implored conservatives to start digging into Obama’s past. He said Obama’s record in the Illinois Senate was on par with a “Marxist leftist.” Citing defeated U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee, DeLay said Obama was attempting to disguise his liberal views. (Read Amanda Carpenter’s report on Obama and his conflicting rhetoric.)
DeLay named Clinton loyalists Harold Ickes, Sidney Blumenthal, James Carville, Paul Begala and Joe Lockhart as the masterminds behind the left-wing coalition. He said that these groups, more than anything else, contributed to the GOP’s fall this November. “I have never seen a more powerful coalition,” he said.
One such example of the coalition’s power played out precisely as planned in California’s 11th District. Republican Rep. Richard Pombo was toppled after facing an onslaught of attacks from the left.
DeLay said his goal in creating the new organization is to turn ideas into action. He said he will reach out to the diverse coalition of conservative groups and bring them together to rival the coalition built by liberals. Prior to the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, DeLay said he employed a similar strategy that the GOP has gradually abandoned.
One day after launching the new website, DeLay said he’s had 100 people pay the $52 per year to join the Grassroots Action and Information Network.
If Hillary gets the nomination, there will be one huge media buzz from the MSN.
Just look at the buzz Obama is getting and he is a nobody.
If the ticket is Clinton/Rodham-Obama, can you imagine the buzz the MSN would create? It would be spectacular.
In other words, we must not let our guard down and piss on those, like Delay, who say the Hillary is electable.
We must remain focused and run the candidate most likely to beat her. I know that is such a dumb statement to make but look at the alternative............
.............Hillary as Preseident.
I tend to think Hillary will pick someone other than Obama for her running mate. She'll have the black vote and Illinois anyway so he doesn't add that much to the ticket, whereas someone like Vilsack, Bayh, or Richardson might swing some borderline states her way. For Obama, I don't know if being VP would help that much if his ultimate goal is to be President--it might be better to stay in the Senate, or hold a Cabinet office.
Tom sure knows how to fire up the conservative base...
Two egos that big won't fit on the same campaign ticket, much less the same campaign button.
Tom DeLay is and has always been an idiot.
We need to qualify this often-quoted statement. The last senator winning the White House directly from the senate was JFK. But he was not the last senator to win the WH. His sucessors, LBJ and Nixon were both senators once.
I've been predicting that Hillary would ask Obama to be her running mate, ever since the Democrat convention. She's just letting him get a head start on his campaigning, sort of rallying the base. Then when it gets closer to the election, they'll claim that Obama doesn't have enough experience, so he's better suited to the vp slot.
And just whom would that be?
Besides the time for rallying around the party's candidate is after the primary. Before then the order of business is to get the best candidates available. But then I'll have to repeat the question, just whom would that be?
I think the fact that LBJ and Nixon were both Senators during their political career is overshadowed by the fact that they both were Vice-Presidents before they became President. The Vice-Presidency takes them out of the 'Senator' as highest Federal office held category that was true in JFK's case.
The Senatorial to Presidential truism stands, for now...
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Obama was educated in Islamic madrassas in both Hawaii and Indonesia, up until high school, when his mother returned to Hawaii after divorcing her second Muslim husband, and enrolled him in Catholic High School. If you listen very closely when he is talking about God, you can't be sure which God he is talking about.
If you watched that special on Islamic madrassas and the overwhelming effect that they have on young minds, you will agree that Obama is very scary.
I'd have voted for the recently departed Jeanne Kirkpatrick, in 1988.
If the private army is a consideration, maybe I'll head to the mountains of Utah.
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Think he's trying to make some money now off his new website memberships?
Fine, let it be Lynn Swann or better yet J.C. Watts. Or both, since they are of different states.
Well, the private army is a consideration in the Philippines.
OH nuts, TD's turned into a big powdered emo kid.
What's the world coming to?
Man, there are a lot of caps in those two mouths.
I counted 64 tooth caps in Hitlery's mouth alone. Got tired counting the caps in Osama Hussein Obama's mouth.
Same place I keep this:
And one of these:
And this
and this: 
And also this
And assorted other goodies with plenty to feed them.
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