Posted on 02/19/2008 10:29:59 PM PST by Petronski
Please allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Obama's landslide victory in Wisconsin. The race is over. Hillary is finished. The Clinton Restoration is over.
President Bill Clinton's political invincibility is over. Hillary's electability is over. Obama got to the far Left faster than she did. He out organized her in the precincts. He out fundraised her. He out speechified her. He out-hustled her. He out-dressed her. He out-presidentialed her. He outdid her and he outbid her for votes, one promised government check at a time.
A 15-point margin in Wisconsin is incredible. Wisconsin is a lot like Ohio except for the wacko ultra-Left Madison college population, which is even worse that Columbus's Ohio State. But there are so many campuses in Ohio that will go for Obama that it is no matter. Think faculty voters, grimly determined for a left-wing takeover of America " from the bottom up" to use the former Saul Alinsky community organizer's phrase. As goes Wisconsin, so goes Ohio.
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Obama has gone so far left in capturing the nomination that, once the agenda is exposed, it will be stale socialism to the American people. He is rendering his own nomination worthless.
Michelle Obama is not going to wear well, either.
And the Clintons have every incentive to sink Obama during the general election campaign - as payback.
Yes, an Obama presidency is a dangerous possibility, but his election is far from guaranteed. And, if elected, last night he already laid the groundwork for stalemate and failure to deliver on promises: he will blame the American people for not sufficiently changing it from the “bottom up.”
What we have here, if elected, is Carter II.
Conservatives are foolish to underestimate the danger of an Obama presidency."
Agree completely. This guy is very scary. Not only as a candidate as McCain will have a nearly an impossible time beating him, but also as, God forbid, President. THE MOST LIBERAL MEMBER OF THE U.S. SENATE. Good grief that is bad news. Couple that with his being incredible inexperienced and flat our naive/ignorant/wrong on foreign policy and we are in for a world of hurt. The words "abject disaster" come to mind. The incredibly scary thing is how many republican friends I have who buy into his vapid speeches. It is truly frightening.
I would currently place the chances of him being elected President at 80%. If it's him and McCain there is no way McCain beats him unless he makes a major blunder like saying "Praise Allah" or something...
Hillary has more class than he does.
The real winner tonight? That chap from Arizona. Captain John McCain.
I agree.... kill her off now for the good of the Republic.
Obama is by no means a sure thing in November. He has no idea what is about to hit him, and has never had to win a competitive general election. Bear in mind that his inner circle is nothing but the Howard Dean team.
Juicy!
That is a ridiculous assertion. Obama is already starting to sound stale with his inane, narcissistic socialism. It is wearing thin already.
” If you saw Obama’s speech tonight, you saw the next president of the United States, barring any unnatural interference by the old wing of that party. They asked for substance, he added substance.
This was the beginning of the end for the status quo in DC. The old people in the House and Senate better pack up their bags. And by “old”, I mean the ones who refuse to represent the people who elected them.
The Republicans can watch this speech for the next twenty or thirty years, and chastise themselves for not fronting a young, energetic, and principled conservative to lead the Republican Party and the country. They will have plenty of time, and absolutely nothing else to occupy that time. I don’t agree with most of Obama’s ideas, but one of them surpasses all and crosses party lines — it’s time to get the dead weight out of Washington, DC. Both parties. Actually, what he said about that is, “Washington is where good ideas go to die.””
He is, essentially, the liberal Reagan. Reagan’s ability to put forth conservative idea’s and appeal directly to the people and cross party lines is what made him so popular. Obama is running in exactly the same way just a mirror image of being very liberal.
The Dems went to the primaries because there were actual choices they had to make. For Republicans, the real conservatives did not generate much excitement and quickly fell by the wayside. Why go and vote when the choice is McCain, who I don’t like, and Huckabee, who I don’t like? That’s why I didn’t vote in the primary. But I will vote in the general election for McCain. Period. End of story.
This election will not be about political ideology. It will be about personality.
McCain is in trouble.
“I’m not so sure of that. Whatever ran up Chris Matthews’ leg, has found its way out tonight. He had an Obama guy from Texas on, and he asked him pointedly and repeatedly to name one thing Obama has done in the Senate. The guy couldn’t do it. Chrissy wouldn’t let him up for air.”
That’s because he is shilling for Hillary. You think he/they will press that hard when it’s in the general and the other guy is McCain? Hellllllllllllll no.
“The Democratic Party discovers a new JFK.
The GOP goes with Dole partie deux.”
Exactly....although I wish Obama was anywhere near JFK as he cut taxes..a lot. Obama will do nothing of the sort.
He's got Soros' support, and has for years.
The only regret I have re: the Clinton’s EARLY political demise is I’d love to see a riot at the Dem Convention.
~snip~
Hillary’s best bet to preserve her career as a professional politician? Pull back significantly in Texas and Ohio, as a prelude to withdrawal. Bill will say no, ‘cause his career is even deader than hers. But Hillary has more class than he does. She still has some vague sense of reality, of the difference between right and wrong, even if he does not.
~snip~
I wonder if this is true- does Hillary have any better grasp on reality than Bill- vague as it may be.
Imagine the myriad competing interests within her campaign- the centerpiece being HIS legacy vs HER future.
Scott Rasmussen just said the same thing on Fox.
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