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.
"Did he predict whether he would be in prison during her term?"
If she is elected he'll either be in prison or pushing up daisies.
He also said Republicans would hold on to the house and senate."
so did most freepers....
I didn't see his appearance so I can't speak to the context but the above is a true statement. We accomplished the single greatest military victory in the history of the world. The aftermath has been troubling, sure, so was WWII. However, it wouldn't be nearly the trouble it has become without the defeatocrats and the media giving aid and comfort to an outgunned and soldiered terrorism outfit.
Oh, sorry. He's living in and broadcasting from Manila now that his wife died a few months back...........
Hillary to some
is quite delectible.
To most though
She is simply un-electable.
There are Dems who would vote against her.
If Iraq is still a f-ing mess in two years--hello Democrat sweep.
I was thinking of maybe Switzerland or Costa Rica.
Why should they? They obviously think they know every damn thing already. It all becomes a big game and fundraiser with these folks.
Do they even believe half the crap they spout?
The gulags will be built by late 2009. See some of you there!
What was that poll? 45% of the voting public would vote against Clinton?
Put her in a debate with Newt and watch that number rise to 80%
After Bush & after Clinton Americans are tired of the Dynasty presidents it is going to be anybody but Clinton
I agree w/ you.
probably not, as they still get all their news from the MSM.
Oh, lol, I'll be FAAAAAAAAAR from Manila.
I'll be so far out that the boonies will be asking how to get there.
Keep a LQQKout for the Islamics..............
Well, Illinois is still there, and still heavily controlled by the Daley Gang.
Switzerland might not be bad if you're into winter sports.
I've looked into Costa Rica myself. It's an alternative but I've got family in the Philippines that I can use for my personal army.
I would have said "BS" before I saw what happened in November. America is in some deep trouble where people have no ability to take responsibility for their own actions. Hillary promises to lift people from their troubles.
Who is the Obama in the republican party?
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