Posted on 03/23/2008 1:58:44 AM PDT by cdchik123
1. She can’t win the nomination without overturning the will of the elected delegates, which will alienate many Democrats.
2. She can’t win the nomination without a bloody convention battle — after which, even if she won, history and many Democrats would cast her as a villain.
3. Catching up in the popular vote is not out of the question — but without re-votes in Florida and Michigan it will be almost as impossible as catching up in elected delegates.
4. Nancy Pelosi and other leading members of Congress don’t think she can win and want her to give up. Same with superdelegate-to-the-stars Donna Brazile.
5. Obama’s skilled, close-knit staff can do things like silently kill re-votes in Florida and Michigan and not pay a political price.
6. Many of her supporters — and even some of her staffers — would be relieved (and even delighted) if she quit the race; none of his supporters or staff feel that way. Some think she just might throw in the towel in June if it appears efforts to fight on would hurt Obama’s general election chances.
7. The Rev. Wright story notwithstanding, the media still wants Obama to be the nominee — and that has an impact every day.
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That was Evan Thomas... but Halperin's saying the same sh•t.
Funny how after the loss of Iowa... the DBM immediately called for Romney to bow out.
Re: The Democrats deciding not to revote - yes, Hillary got skunked, but so did the Florida and Michigan democratic voters.
Either way, both candidates lose on this one. What sort of party would do this to two of the larger state delgations to the convention? What were they thinking of?
The Stalinist hillary is diabocal and lusts for power. She will not take one for the party and fall on her sword. She doesn’t care about the party. We’ll see blood on the streets during and after the convention.
My prediction is that she’ll be the most hated woman in American history by Sept. 1, 2008, and things will go downhill from there. And should the leftist media back her and attack Mr. McCain’s military record, the blowback will reach huuricane force and demolish the old Marxist media.
People are not happy right now.
I wish we had a better candidate.
The Clintons are not done with their attempts to unmask the "msm's chosen one". This for them is political survival. There is no 2012 if they are defeated in 2008. The reverend Wright incident was a body punch. The knockout punch has yet to be delivered and it is coming....
I don’t know where the “experts” get their calcuations from regarding the popular vote. Example, if 2 million Dems vote in PA and Hillary wins 2-1, she has there alone made up the 700,000 vote deficit against Mr. Wright’s parishioner.
I've said it before...and I'll say it again. It would NOT surprise me in the least...if McCain picked Hillary as his V.P.
I thought Halperin was one of those drugs that had been recalled!:)
I remember seeing the films of our POW’s who gave in to the Hanoi Commies way back when that war was still on. And McCain was one of them. ABC, CBS and NBC have copies of his films and his radio broadcasts. Even though McCain has managed to get a law passed to censure them there is no doubt that they will make their way to the internet next October.
Substitute Huma for Bubba.
She isn't going to quit. She will use every twist and turn to get the nomination, even if it destroys the DemocRAT party for the next hundred years.
The Dems are going to witness a Riefenstahl "Triumph of the Will" moment at their convention.
GREAT picture that tells the whole psychology of those two.
A party that thought it was just a formality that they had to wait until the Convention to crown the bit@h.
“I got him stuffed out doin’ Pork lines from the coffee table now.....when he falls asleep I’m gonna give him a colostomy with this beer bottle....that’ll fix his philanderin’ a$$......”
She'll hang her hat on creating poll numbers that show that if these two were included, she would be ahead. (actually better for her to have them hanging, than have actual new primaries). She will then run on a platform of disenfranchisement, and claim she is the real leader when are the votes are actually counted.
Hillary won’t win 2 to 1. She has only topped 60% once [Arkansas].
ummm..........Links???
“Hillary’s Plan B: assure BO’s defeat in November and run against McCain in 2012.”
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I think she would almost certainly try to ensure Obama’s defeat but her chances of being nominated in 2012 are vanishingly small.
“People are not happy right now.”
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They dang shore ain’t! Down at the sawmill they are spittin’ on the ground and lookin’ for Loisville Slugger size pieces of hardwood and mutterin’ somethin’ about Buford.
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