The Fix is in for Hillary

Poe.com ^ | January 7, 2008 | Richard Lawrence Poe

[ccmay]

Looks to me like we win either way. If Her Thighness mounts a coup, the nutroots stay home or vote for a third party crackpot. If Obama wins, google the “David Dinkins effect.”

[Old Sarge]

Clarity. This entire campaign is nothin gbut street theater. She Who Must Not Be Named is the presumptive heir to the nomination.

As for the “comeback kid” article, I say Feb 6th - The new GroundHog Day, where She will see Her shadow and Amerika will have four years of winter.

[NonValueAdded]

The flaw in this is if she loses the primary vote by a large margin. The RATs will have to jettison all their push for popular vote over electoral college in order to annoint Toonette. Once again, we’ll have the coattails of death.

[cajungirl]

your scenario would be ideal for us in my opinion.

[Califreak]

Nah. She’s gonna get Obamasized! LOL!

[Ann Archy]

Spread it around.....THE FIX IS IN....HILLARY is the NOMINEE....NO MATTER WHAT!!! Obama has NO...NADA...ZERO CHANCE!! It’;s all just a FIXED GAME by the Clintons!! PASS IT ON!!!

[Eva]

Soros has been donating to Obama, too.

[bajabaja]

Great analysis, as far as it goes. It does not discuss (because the topic is another article in itself) how blacks in the dem base will feel if their clearly strong candidate is “robbed” by smoke-filled room white party operatives. The “sit out” factor in the general is not to be overlooked given this scenario. Thanks for the more detailed information on the Super Delegates.

[normy]

good for us.

[ml/nj]

Hello? If the "superdelagates" see that the Commodities Scam Queen can't even get 40% of the votes in a Democratic Party Primary, they're not going to be so stupid as to think she'll poll over 50% against a Republican in November.

ML/NJ

[AmericaUnited]

The best scenario would be for the supers to push The Evil One over the top. Obama supporters would be so incredibly pissed that they will not show up to vote on election day.

[Maine Mariner]

The final two sentences of Poe’s article says it all.
I am still very worried; the attack ads on Obama and Edwards start the day after tomorrow.

[Cedric]

Pinch me!

This is setting up for my dream scenario.

Hillary strong arms the nomination away from Obama, the rightful victor, and she does so in such a ham handed manner that she is irreparably damaged going into the general election.

[mtbopfuyn]

I’m betting the ticket will be Hill/Bama. If not, then Bama/Hill. Either way, she WILL be on the ticket.

[goldstategop]

Hillary won't allow democratic niceties or a black man to stand in her way. She is prepared to destroy the Democratic Party to win the nomination.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[discostu]

Good. Anybody that get the party nomination through machinations while losing most of the states will horribly alienate their party’s base and get their asses kicked in the general.

[henbane]

I believe the super-delegates are required to vote as pledged on the first ballot; this system could conceivably yield the Dems a candidate they hate.

It would be the first and last Democrat convention in the 21st Century.

Some kind of weird new unrecognizable party would emerge after the agonizing death of the old one.

[Radix]

Great point.

[Azzurri]

This would be a plausible scenario if Obama were not black. If the Dems took away the nomination from Barack thru Super Delegates, they would lose the black vote for a generation.

[Brad from Tennessee]

If Obama wins a clear victory in the primaries the DNC would be reckless to fix the nomination for Clinton. A majority of Democrat voters would suddenly realize they had been disenfranchised from the process. Rank-and-file African Americans, no matter who they voted for, would scream “racism” and bolt the party. The international community, whose opinion Democrats say is important, would condemn the nomination as a fraud. A huge write-in campaign would begin for Obama, rupturing the Democrat party and probably assuring a Republican victory.