Posted on 03/01/2008 6:18:17 AM PST by vietvet67
Hillary Clinton came out of the Potomac Primaries in roughly the same position as Mike Huckabee: needing a miracle. Unless she wins the Texas and Ohio primaries next week nothing short of divine intervention will deliver the nomination to her. After losing eleven straight primaries (even Democrats abroad don’t like her) she is down to a final roll of the dice on March 4. Polls show her with a small lead in Ohio and essentially tied in Texas, but slipping fast in both must win states.
This week she turned up the heat on Barack Obama in a final attempt to save her faltering campaign. She aimed to show he was an unknown, untested candidate who failed to observe a cardinal rule of international travel -- never put on a funny looking outfit over a polo shirt. (A photo of Barack Obama in Somalian garb was released, supposedly by a Clinton staffer.) She gave a foreign policy address contending he was foolhardy to be “penciling in” dictators on the White House calendar. She promised, “I will not broadcast intentions to take unilateral actions in a country like Pakistan.” (Iraq is a different matter, presumably.)
All this was part of her last push to demonstrate that Obama would be an easy target for John McCain. (She, along with Bill Keller of the New York Times, will be getting a dozen roses from him for their efforts in bolstering his conservative support.)
However, Democratic voters seemed skeptical of the proposition that she would fare better against McCain in the general election. After all, every national poll and many polls in key swing states showed Clinton doing worse than Obama against McCain.
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It is NOT over yet!
It's NOT over until she's buried at the crossroads with a spike through her heart.
I could see this happening. . .
I don't believe that either she nor Willie is too familiar with that route. Its not in their GPS anywhere.
Actually, the process requires an ash stake, decapitation [with the mouth stuffed with garlic], and the head buried elsewhere, or burned.
I’m still waiting to hear what dirt comes out Monday night at around 8:30 p.m.
Hopefully this buries Bill also.
The simple joy of watching a Clinton self destruct.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
If she won the Dem nomination and lost the November election, she might challenge Reid for Dem leader position in the Senate.
She won't need to. If Obama loses she'll have a lot of people out there for her saying, "If only we'd nominated Hillary we wouldn't be in this fix..."
Nonsense. Kerry lost in 2004 and he certainly wasn't the 'presumptive nominee' in 2008. Nor was Gore considered the shoe-in for 2004. Losing the presidential election is death for the candidate in question, and will continue to be so. If Obama loses in November then he will not be the nominee in 2012. Clinton will.
On the other hand I don't think that the Democratic rank-and-file are all that fond of either Reid or Pelosi, especially Pelosi. They've been consistently out-maneuvered by George Bush, of all people, and their bomb-throwing tactics may be fine for life in opposition but won't be of much use if the Democrats take the White House. I could easily see Clinton being offered Senate Majority as a consolation prize, and with one leadership post filled by a female it only makes sense to put a guy back in the Speakers chair. It would not be hard at all for Obama to engineer a removal of Pelosi, probably into the Cabinet, and put someone more agreeable in her spot.
In ten tons of concrete, with garlic strewn all about the grave, the land tilled with salt, a double electrified fence, a dozen priests reading the exorcism,and a bucket of water to throw on her.
Have I missed anything?
Agree. Real Clear Politics averages all of the polls and it’s basically tied with the error margin in Texas and she is winning hands down in Ohio.
They also have a head to head poll regarding the general election that suggests if Hillary is the nominee McPain wins and if Obama is the nominee we all lose.
After the election — divorce. (But I don’t know who will file for it first: Bill or Hill.)
You nailed it! I was trying to explain this to somebody but failed to see your detail:
If Clinton is the nominee, Obamians will feel deflated, cheated, and demoralized on election day.
If Hussein Obama is the nominee, the Clintons will monkey-wrench his campaign: smother it with their peculiar "support." (I haven't figured out how they do this, maybe they don't consciously mean to, but if Midas turned everything to lead-- that would describe it.)
I'm liking this election cycle better and better-- except for the McCain part.
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