Sen. Clinton's massive mistake - and the final chance to fix it

Daily News ^ | Monday, January 7th 2008, | ROBERT SHRUM

[COUNTrecount]

So it's a long shot, with one and only one possible road to recovery: Let Hillary be Hillary. Throw away the product packaging - those poll-tested small-bites of policy - and set out a big case about what she wants to do in the next four years, not what she has done for the past 35.

Let Hillary! be herself is all they have left?LOL.

[DuncanWaring]

...young Bill Clinton never would have ousted the first George Bush from the White House.

"Young" Bill Clinton didn't.

Ross Perot did.

[dforest]

Problem is. Hillary has been herself. Nobody likes her.

All she has left is to articulate her socialism.

Good luck with that Hillary.

[okie01]

So it's a long shot, with one and only one possible road to recovery: Let Hillary be Hillary.

Whips, leathers and all?

Can't wait for the next debate...

[trad_anglican]

Shrum, senior strategist in the 2000 Al Gore and 2004 John Kerry presidential campaigns,

Well, he would surely know a poorly run campaign when he sees one. I'd be a little skeptical of his precsriptive fixes, though.

[seamusnh]

She was running as if the nomination were hers to lose; kind of like an incumbent president. She seems to have underestimated the competition and the intelligence of the voters..... Can “Clinton, Inc.” turn this around?

[xtinct]

Let Hillary be Hillary

Old... Yesterday... Marxist...

[dforest]

Arkancide. It works. LOL

[Vaquero]

[karnage]

Shrum has advised many candidates. I think he has rung up goose eggs in every contest.

[WOSG]

Shrum - he is an EXPERT on losing campaigns. LOL.

Biggest mistake = letting Bill Clinton campaign for her.

Lots of baggage to carry around.

[Izzy Dunne]

Let's look at the tape: He worked for Ted Kennedy in 1980.

He worked for Dick Gephardt in the 1988 primaries.

He worked for "Tank" Dukakis in the 1988 finals.

He worked for Bob Kerrey in the 1992 primaries.

He worked for Al Gore in 2000.

He worked for John Kerry in 2004.

And he still has an audience...... why?

[Izzy Dunne]

I think he has rung up goose eggs in every contest.

He helped Jimmy Carter in 1976 (by quitting the campaign early).

[ChocChipCookie]

If Hillary really is all that likeable, how come, after nearly two decades, no one knows that? It’s ridiculous to talk about how warm and funny she is. Now, Laura Bush really does seem warm, friendly, someone you’d like to spend time with. Hillary never did, but please! Don’t let that stop her from trying to repackage herself yet AGAIN! LOL

[SERKIT]

Shrum seems to want to give Hillary a Lewinsky here.

...often funny in private...

I'm sure Shrum has been witness to that "funny" way Hillary throws around ashtrays, lamps, and ethnic slurs in private.

Isn't Shrum on a hit political TV show called "Biggest Loser" based on all the non-successes his had as political consultant?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Correct. Leave it to a card-carrying Donk to slip in that little bogus re-write of history.

[henkster]

How sad for America that someone like Shrum who has nothing but a track record of consistent failure is cast as an “expert.”

[aShepard]

???Schrum???

The RATS are beginning to eat their own!

[snowrip]

Let Hillary be Hillary.

I'm all for it. Let her be the Communist, America-hating, big-government, Jew-bashing, open-borders, anti-military shrill that she is. In no time at all, she'll be at .01% of the vote. But it will never come to pass, because above all Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar, unable to tell the truth about even her own name. She won't be able to let Hillary! be Hillary!, not even if she wanted to.

[alloysteel]

Another thing going - the so-called “Independent” vote in New Hampshire. Almost certainly they will break heavily for Barack, the Magic Negro, and certainly most of the “younger” vote will do much the same.

It’s a Nintendo game, folks. And the reset button has been pushed.