If she loses I suggest this.
Posted on 02/08/2008 6:03:55 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, "I concede" and go on vacation at a friend's house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait?
Is it possible she could be so normal?
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She’s got Obama fever..
Sure, just like she and Bubba's classy exit from the WH 8 years ago.
I rather hope she won’t lose graciously, and tears the Democrats apart... :)
As if being a US Senator-for-life is a tough deal.
I don’t know what planet she’s writing from these days, but Obama is far from bullet-proof. He’s a product of the Chicago machine, and I think we all know what that means.
If she loses I suggest this.
This actually strikes me as one of her better recent columns, but still she has a hard time getting to the point and making it. Like she’s trying to out-Buckley Buckley, who even now has superior penmanship.
And horrors! She may genuinely believe Obama has a better chance than Hillary (of winning in Nov.)
She has shown zero interest in the Senate during her 7 years there.
I expect her to be the nominee (Paging Obama secret service detail to the white courtesy phone), but if she isn't, I don't expect her to stay in the Senate.
If it weren't for the Clinton Machine, I'd agree with that. An awful lot of people, even on the Democrat side, have got serious Clinton Fatigue.
Sure she’ll stay in the Senate. Free rides on Gulfstreams anywhere she wants to go.
Red carpets and limos every step of her life.
Peggy meanders as usual but she does have a good point. Obama is the tougher of the two to beat in the general.
So if a Republican criticizes Obama...he(MSM) can turn it around as racism? I can hear him singing now: We Shall Overcome.
Especially Chris Matthews.
One part of the Clinton mystique maintains: Deep down journalists think she's a political Rasputin who will not be dispatched. Prince Yusupov served him cupcakes laced with cyanide, emptied a revolver, clubbed him, tied him up and threw him in a frozen river. When he floated to the surface they found he'd tried to claw his way from under the ice. That is how reporters see Hillary.
Yup Clinton Inc. is that hard to kill.
And that is a grim and over-the-top analogy, which I must withdraw. What I really mean is they see her as the Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction": "I won't be ignored, Dan!"
Glenn Close can play Hillary in the movie. Best line of the column.
.....Is she wise?......
We know she is vindictive. the toll of dead, that is permanently removed, is a long list.
She will not ever do what Rommney did. She will wreck the party, the party she built, before quitting the race. We are wittnessing a literal death struggle.
That's part of it but just part. He just doesn't excite the kind of animus that Hillary does. Harsh, negative attacks would just backfire. We would need to take the high road to beat him. A substantive campaign to contrast with his vaporous "change" theme.
Does this infer that B.O. may be in danger of joining the Clinton Dead Pool?
GO MITT !!
No matter what happens, "gracious" won't describe it.
“Will she just say, “I concede” and go on vacation”
If Hillary loses, she will be as gracious as Teddy Kennedy was to Jimmy Carter at the Democrat convention way back when. I’ll never forget that display and I wasn’t even very interested in politics at the time.
I admit Obama has some momentum and the support of the active wing of the party, the left wing (unlike the GOP that disses their active wing, the right-wing).
However I also find it difficult to believe that Hillary could lose this thing, but even with all the old machinery on Hillary’s side, the power of the people should never be underestimted. If she loses, it will because of the (democrat) people.
If she connives herself into the White House, more likely she’ll dig in for two terms. Then Chelsea will be groomed for the following two elections. We’re done for.
No, she does not know and will not know because they will steal pressure and sneak through the back door into the white house.
Hillary will not quietly go away and will fight like a rabid wolverine until the convention votes her out. I feel sorry for Obama because between now and the convention he will be the target of the most vicious and vile campaigning imaginable .
What was it like? Are you being sarcastic in your reference to Kennedy’s concession to Carter? I don’t recall the event...and I’m 61.
Okay...I looked it up. “Google is your friend” ;^)
President Hillary
Speaker Pelosi
Majority Leader Feinstein
The vaginocracy will institute a new era of Jim Crow against men.
Obama running in the general will be very interesting if it happens. Will the hispanics track to McCain because of amnesty and their prejudices? Will McCain do anything overt to draw those racial lines? And where will the women go? I suspect they end up becoming more of a split. The idealists will go with Obama while the women who vote national security go to McCain.
There is something interesting I saw on Tuesday. I coach high school kids and the seniors were very proud to announce they all voted for Obama. Why? That is the hard part. Ideas aren’t part of the equation. There is an excitement to vote for a young-ish, articulate, black man. All three of those qualities work in his favor with the young. They are probably Clinton’s downfall. They are too young to remember anything but BJs.
Peggy has a point as well as a recent frontal lobotomy. Trying to wander through Peggy’s musings is like walking through a swamp in cement shoes.
Barak will have to share his presidency with her if he wants anything put through Congress.
My son is a conservative (taxes, abortion etc), yet, he announced he will cast his first vote for Obama. I asked him why. His reply was,”I like the guy, I just like him.”
Sure Peggy she can lose, but There Will Be Blood, and the body count on Alamo Girl’s Downside Legacy grows larger.
Texas is The Tipping Point.
I would advise Barak’s family not to travel together.
(snip)
We know she is smart.
(/snip)
I for one, do not know this. I have been told she is by every liberal media outlet but have yet to see her prove “smart” to me on any national stage. And for that matter, not even to the common peon (like me) that she claims to represent.
My girlfriend...bartender, apartment complex cleaning lady, waitress etc...can’t stand her and blows a gasket every time she hears Clinton claim to understand the plight of the working class woman...
Clinton is a woman of privilege and ruthless wanton destruction to those that stand in her way of what she believes (never earned) to be hers, be it the Presidency or anything else. She steps on the throat of the working class without ever having to have served food to those that might spit on her...
my girlfriend has been spit on, but because she was in the position of having to have a job, she apologized to the jerk for whatever “bad service” she might have given him to provoke such a response and quietly went to the restroom to clean up.
It was then she wept...
Dammit... Barack. Typo, too early in the morning. I mean Barack Obama, not Ehud Barak...
There's a lot of that going around. Obama will be very difficult to beat if the Democrats are smart enough to nominate him.
>> As if being a US Senator-for-life is a tough deal.
Wouldn’t be for you or me, but it would be utter failure for Hillary.
In fact, I think her and Billyboy’s ambition transcends leading the US.
I think they envision some sort of multinational confederation — which, of course, they become the head of.
>> Okay...I looked it up. “Google is your friend” ;^)
I don’t remember that incident either. Since I’m typing this with a mouthstick, which is really really hard, maybe you could give me the link so I don’t have to google?
Ok, who am I kidding, I have full use of my fingers (thank God!) if not my brain... I’m just too lazy. What did you find out? :-)
>> Will McCain do anything overt to draw those racial lines?
What the hell more could he do? Give ‘em citizenship, welfare AND a free pinata for their kids?
A great description of Hillary.
While that would fun to watch, I'd be just as interested in Bill's undoing as he tries to cope with the deals he's made and monies collected based on his returning to the WH. He'd be wise to double up his secret service detail if that happens.
.....as he tries to cope with the deals he’s made and monies collected based on his returning to the WH. .....
That’s a very interesting thought. It is betting on the come. Many shirts have been lost, including my own, betting on what appeared to be a sure thing.
My view had been that the current Clinton wealth came from the Marc Rich pardon and the money he made cornering the Russian aluminum market using funds provided by the World Bank.
Looking forward however provides a whole new ball game. There are always greedy suckers to be fleeced.
She's writing from a place called reality. Obama has run an excellent campaign and avoided getting down into the gutter. A scandal-based attack on him will backfire big time. It will only sell to the people who wouldn't vote for him anyway. It will turn off the mushy middle and put him right in the WH. The only way to beat Obama is to draw him out of the platitudes and make him take real positions on real issues. Right now, campaigning against him is like trying to punch a hole in water.
your fine point on it is the best matter of fact I’ve read
“she is trying to out-Buckley Buckley”
....and there is this.......Noonan,in this piece,is playing the race card......
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