Clinton's next move may be to prolong the path to nomination

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 7, 2008 | Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

[Cementjungle]

WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's voting in Indiana and North Carolina put Hillary Rodham Clinton no closer to overtaking Barack Obama on the path to the Democratic presidential nomination. That now leaves Clinton with one overriding task: to make the path longer.

For most of the year, June 3 beckoned as the end of an exhausting nominating calendar, the day that the final states hold primaries to choose between Clinton and Obama. But now, Clinton is preparing to push the contest beyond the voting phase of the process and into the realm of committee meetings and credentialing rules, where her campaign believes she may have a chance to overtake Obama before the party's nominating convention in late August.

[Cementjungle]

Looks like she's going to take the battle to behind closed doors.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Clinton is preparing to push the contest beyond the voting phase of the process and into the realm of committee meetings and credentialing rules

Won't do her one blessed bit of good, ultimately.

Even the dimmest, most addle-witted 'rat politico can count on their own fingers and toes well enough... and: it doesn't take much in the way of higher calculus for any one of them to arrive at the final sum of: ('Rat Party In '08) - (80% Or More Of A Thoroughly Hacked-Off African-American Voting Base) = (No White House, Not Now, Not Thirty Years From Now).

They'll give her a hearing, certainly, in order to decently hear her out while she attempts to erect whatever spindly, unconvincing sort of "case" she may genuinely believe she still has, at this late date -- they owe her that much at least, if only by way of baseline common courtesy --

... but, actually dynamite their own party to bloody, bite-sized bits, solely on her cackled say-so?

Magic Eightball Sez: "Nahhhhhhhhh." ;)

[Pinkbell]

Thus ticking off the black vote and far left. This is so entertaining. If only the Republicans were running a real conservative like Hunter. Then it would be perfect.

[Cementjungle]

They'll give her a hearing, certainly, in order to decently hear her out while she attempts to erect whatever spindly, unconvincing sort of "case" she may genuinely believe she still has, at this late date -- they owe her that much at least, if only by way of baseline common courtesy --

Her case will be "But I deserve this, and I was born to be the supreme leader"!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Her case will be "But I deserve this, and I was born to be the supreme leader"!

I hope someone on her staff thinks to dress her up in the cute, coral pink "formal" straitjacket, for the occasion. ;)

[Lijahsbubbe]

Do you think she’ll go postal?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Do you think she’ll go postal?

Wrong verb tense, in Cankles' case.

She was freakin' BORN "postal." ;)

[Lijahsbubbe]

Good point. I predict that the loss will make Bill wither away. Hillary, however, will use her hatefulness to keep her going.

[Rocky]

I’m just glad I’m not one of the suckers (caterers, printers, etc.) who allowed her campaign to use their services on credit.

[normy]

I think Clinton is done for good. I could even see her losing her Senate race if she decides to run. She would have been gone long ago had Republicans not given her Texas.

She was swilling beer and doing shots at the end still trying to "hone her persona". She even resorted to threatening nuclear war with Iran.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

She was swilling beer and doing shots at the end still trying to "hone her persona".

Man... can you even imagine being trapped in the same room with a drunken, slurring and... ahhhhhh... "uninhibited" Cankles Clinton...?

I just did. ;)

[fortheDeclaration]

Pat Buchanan denied that she would do this,saying that she would bow out, trying to protect the Clinton 'legacy'

Pat Buchanan is an idiot.

[fortheDeclaration]

I could even see her losing her Senate race if she decides to run.

I think so also, espically if the Blacks see her as contributing to Obama's loss by dragging out the nomination.

Also, if Rudy would run against her, he would have a good shot at beating her.

Weren't these the two that the 'experts' thought were going to be nominees in Nov?

[doodad]

I know a Pyrrhic victory at best without a GOP candidate. But, they deserve it for doing the same to us and creating McCain as the candidate.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Remember, the credentials committee is controlled by Hillary's flying monkeys.

She does not care if the DemocRAT party is in the extreme minority for the next 100 years; it isall about her.

[G.Love]

She was swilling beer and doing shots at the end still trying to "hone her persona". She even resorted to threatening nuclear war with Iran.

Don't forget she's going to take down OPEC too. Cowboy diplomacy?

[indylindy]

I don’t care what Hillary does. I have an awful picture in my mind of Michelle Obama in the White House. argh!

Whatever happens, there is no victory this time. We are stuck with a totally useless lackluster candidate who thinks he can win by being a nice liberal.

Hope the RAT convention is interesting.

[rod1]

I am all for registration of ashtrays with a three day waiting period before purchase.

[rod1]

Yep, you can’t vote for Obama at the Convention in Denver if you can’t get in. and Clintanoids control all the doors.

[Savage Beast]

"I hope someone on her staff thinks to dress her up in the cute, coral pink 'formal' straitjacket, for the occasion."

Do you suppose the lamps and ashtrays are flying right now?

(I am seriously worried about Bill. I hope he's got a fake wig and one of those noses and has lined up something like a submarine for fast escape.)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

something like a submarine

Oh, now. Must we really drag poor Monica into the midst of all of this, once again...? ;)

[harpu]

"I don’t care what Hillary does. I have an awful picture in my mind of Michelle Obama in the White House. argh!"

Maybe, just maybe this great country of ours needs exactly this to give itself a political wakeup call!

[D-fendr]

Do you think she’ll go postal?

I'm thinking she'll go Britney.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I’m hoping you’re talking about the shaved head and not the crotch shot!!!! :o

Who could deal with that-—EEAUUUW!

[D-fendr]

No.. no.. whew.

I’m talking about holding delegates hostage in the rest room, being strapped down on a gurney and taken to a psych ward..