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.
That's funny, considering Colin Powell apparently wasn't worth fifty cents.
I get bothered by people making those kind of declarative statements. If "she WILL be the next whatever..." then there is nothing we can do. The truth is, anything is possible. She very well could be the next President, if Republicans do nothing, and the church continues to try to hide sin. The truth is, someone else COULD be elected.
I also thought about this being a warning to the party to select a candidate to stand up to Hillary. I am sorry but if our party runs John McCain I might not make it to the polls due to a sudden stomach illness as I gag when I hear or read what comes from his mouth!
Perhaps you would deign to enlighten us with one or two that you do buy.
** 'Hillary Will Be the Next President'**
God be our guardian!
The consequence of lassitude is the unthinkable, Hillary. If anyone thinks there is any resemblence to her and anyone in our party they simply have not studied the woman and what she believes. If what he says shakes people up and wakes people up then he will have done a good thing.
Whether or not our party runs John McCain is up to us, not the MSM.
Keep the faith!
Liberals have a tendency to get loopy when they have power. Pumping up Hillary is not a bad strategy. Make the Democrats believe she is electable.
I can't for the life of me imagine Hillary getting elected. For one, she elicits a visceral negative reaction in most people. Her polling negatives are unmoving because everyone knows her. There are so many stories of her time as the Wicked Witch of the West Wing that can be pulled out to demolish her.
Obama is no juggernaut, either. Americans aren't so totally dumb they'll elect a guy to the presidency who has barely had any experience. Too many in the press over emphasize his charisma.
Another factor: There is a minority of people who simply won't vote for a woman for president. Let's say 10% of people won't vote for a woman. That's a small number, but a big hurdle since elections are now won by the number of people who can fit in my house. Worse yet, from my personal experience, the group that is most biased against women is...women. I've known a number of women who wouldn't vote for a woman and wouldn't work for one. I don't support this view, but it's out there, and it doesn't help the Witch.
You wait until then and you may end up with a candidate you dont like
Seems like the dems have been working on 2008 while the republicans just sit back and fight among themselves.
And just whom would that be? NEWT ofcourse!
You may dissagree with that but atleast it steers the discussion towards more healthy territory in order to prepare for 2008.
http://www.gopteamleader.com
Start Working on 2008 NOW!
You left off my following statement.
"Before then the order of business is to get the best candidates available."
You get a candidate you like by working for them now in advance of the primaries. But you work for one you'd like to actually hold the office, not *just* one you think can beat Hitllery, or whomever the 'Rats finally nominate. We don't need to end up with a choice between a leftist 'Rat and a leftist RINO.
I like Newt, but I'm afraid he's got too many skeletons in his closet, even if unimportant ones. Screaming Dean, the DNC and most importantly the propaganda wing of the DNC, aka as the MSM, would eat him for lunch. Just as they turned Clinton's intransigence into Newt shutting down the Government.
she will pick Richardson, to lock up 90% of the hispanic vote.
I bet these remarks about Hillary's election to the Presidency were taken out of context. DeLay is trying to rally the GOP to prevent it from happening.
the base cannot elect anyone on its own - it can either be part of a coalition that brings some independents along, or we lose. we will be going in 2008 with HUGE baggage.
some of them will. but that same "some" are never going to be happy unless we put up an unelectable litmus test pure social conservative who wants a wall built at the border. what good is satisfying that segment by teeing up an unelectable candidate? look at the hot threads on FR the last few days, the base has a new litmus test - lesbian women cannot have their OWN babies without being demonized. you think that is going to sell to independents?
at some point, a decision will be made - send up an unknown, "litmus test pure" candidate who is unelectable and lose to Hillary, or take your chances with a moderate, get whatever percentage of the base that is willing to come along, and get some independent votes.
Then implored...conservatives to start digging into Obama’s past.
No need, Tom ol' buddy.
Hillary Rodham does this as sort of a hobby.
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