Posted on 06/03/2008 7:53:58 AM PDT by MindBender26
Latest From Behind The Scenes At TV Networks…. “What The ___”
Just off the phones with old friends and fiends at the networks. Here is the latest as they see it, although as show producers and assignment editors wrap up morning meetings at this hour, there are still many unanswered questions about the direction of the Dem nominating process, ie: What will Hillary do?
Her likely departure from the campaign will NOT be driven by tonight’s vote totals, but by the details of a deal she can construct with Obama.
A few notes. Look at the next 10 days from an Occam’s Razor viewpoint. The simplest answer is usually the valid one. There will be much misdirection over the next few days, but make sure you “look behind the curtain” and see who is pulling the levers… AND WHY!
There are already a number of far-reaching events in progress:
1: Multiple “tell all” books are already at the printers. Most are scathing in their treatment of both Bill and Hillary, although some attempt to blame Bill for all the problems created for Saint Hillary.
2: Attempts to blame Bill’s incredibly bad behavior on “post-open heart surgery trauma” are falling on deaf ears. Those who would make excuses for Bill are becoming a smaller and smaller element of the Democrat Party. There is a huge fight brewing between the old guard, union and blue collar Dems on one side and the new, far-left wing, gay, academic and Soros-type Dems on the other side. Best bets as to a victor, Old Line Dems (unless Obama wins the General, which is very unlikely) Why the old-line dems, when the New Kids On The Black have the “fire?” Because the old-line party pols won’t play “fair,” and the kids won’t know what hit them.
3. Hillary sees 2008 as “all-in.” She either wins it all this year, or it’s all over. She has no desire to remain one of a hundred members of the world’s biggest “old boys’ club,” the U.S. Senate, and has little stomach for a fight to oust a sitting Black Dem governor of New York. In addition, her failure to win the endorsement of important senators such as Kennedy was shattering to her ego.
4. Bill is a dead man walking. Everyone is VERY po’ed at him.
5. Hillary may have the Michelle Obama “I hate white people” tape, if it even exists, but it could matter little in the Dem primaries. To Dem primary voters, such a statement would be Radical Chic. In the General, it could be disastrous, but Dem primary voters are VERY different from General voters.
What will happen tonight and the next few days? No one knows, but they are expecting some serious fireworks.
The next 72 hours could be some serious popcorn time.
It will not be that “mild.” It will get “hotter” within the next few days.
She is not all in on 08. 08 is lost for her. If she were to wrestle the nomination from Obama this year, she would go down in flames with the lack of black voter turnout costing her PA, MI etc. She has had to know this since the delegate math turned on her.
She is now all in on 2012. That requires Obama to lose big. So she stays in to the convention to sap his strength. To me the interesting question comes post Novemeber. She will be the buyers remorse candidate for 2012. Does she dump Bill and will that help her?
RE: Your # 5.
Have you heard what Bob Beckel said early this morning on FOX?
http://greenroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/03/beckels-obama-bombshell/
FOX News Blogs » Alisyn in the Greenroom
June 3rd, 2008 7:15 AM Eastern
Beckel’s Obama Bombshell
by Alisyn Camerota
Were you watching at 6:25 when Democratic strategist Bob Beckel dropped a bomb on us? He said he’d heard through his political pipeline that a big shoe was about to drop on the Obama campaign. It has something to do with Michelle Obama. Beckel wouldn’t say anything more other than this explosive story may happen tomorrow. Do you think the GOP has something up its sleeve that could blow up Obama’s campaign? If so, when do you think they’ll unleash it?
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And YET- just now on FOX Beckel sounds as though it’s all over...sort of. He is making all the right noises- that Obama has it wrapped up- but there’s a tone in his voice that sounds...worried?? (OR I’m reading a lot into him this morning)
Barak Hussein Obama is a crippled candidate. He has far too much baggage and he doesn’t even recognize that fact. If McCain gets his act together and the tape is as damaging as it seems to be it will be a debacle in November. A defeat of McGovern/Mondale proportions.
Hmmmm...ping!
'No confetti. No confetti yet. Go balloons. Go balloons. More balloons. All balloons. All balloons. Come on guys, let's move it."
"Jesus, we need more balloons. I want all balloons to go, goddamn. No confetti. No confetti. No confetti. I want more balloons. What's happening to the balloons? We need more balloons. We need all of them coming down... balloons.
"Go balloons, balloons... what's happening balloons, there's not enough coming down. All balloons - where the hell - there's nothing falling." "What the f... are you guys doing up there?"
meant to ping you!
Cue the cameras and let the action begin.
Rush is talking about the rumored tape...it seems as if she is really conceding.
The Democrat newsrooms will continue to protect that oily scumbag Obama the way a mother protects a slow child, and they will do anything to get him elected President.
That's ALL anyone needs to know.
A tremendous amount of people would probably vote for her as an independent that would not vote for her as a Democrat. It worked for Joe Lieberman who they shoved out of the Demo party in Connecticut and he got himself re-elected as an independent. A move to an independent ticket could signal the beginning of a viable THIRD party because of the status of her present candidacy.
I'm afraid, however, her handlers, would advise her against abandoning the Democrat party. If she's in deep need of power and staying in the spotlight she will hang around and take what is offered her and stay in the party mix. Time will tell how daring and smart she really is.
As everyone has been saying... pull up a chair, grab some popcorn, and watch the show.
He's safe then.
A tremendous amount of people would probably vote for her as an independent that would not vote for her as a Democrat. It worked for Joe Lieberman who they shoved out of the Demo party in Connecticut and he got himself re-elected as an independent. A move to an independent ticket could signal the beginning of a viable THIRD party because of the status of her present candidacy.
I'm afraid, however, her handlers, would advise her against abandoning the Democrat party. If she's in deep need of power and staying in the spotlight she will hang around and take what is offered her and stay in the party mix. Time will tell how daring and smart she really is.
As everyone has been saying... pull up a chair, grab some popcorn, and watch the show.
Verrry interesting.......
Obama won't put the witch on the ticket. What else can he offer her to make her quit?
I really have to question the parameters of any possible "deal."
I see they will destroy each other. Hillary will never give up the and MSM will never forgive Hillary for doing Obama in.
>>>>What else can he offer her to make her quit?
Campaign debt $
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"Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the Credentials Committee," said Ickes, referring to the committee of appeal.
"There's been a lot of talk about party unity let's all come together and put our arms around each other.
I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, that hijacking four delegates ... is not a good way to start down the path of party unity."
Ickes' angry sermon, as it turned out, was just the prelude to a near total meltdown at the end. The other committee members grimaced at the shouts of derision, which included chants of "McCain 08,""Bastards," and "Denver," an echo of their hopes that Clinton would take her case all the way to the Democratic National Convention to be held in August in Denver.
After the meeting adjourned, women sat on the floor sobbing, while others, like Pennsylvania voter Betty Jean King, 60, a retired teacher from Shippensburg, ranted to television cameras: "If it's not Hillary, I'm voting for McCain. 17 million people voted for Hillary and I'm telling you many of them are going to defect."
Which leads us to a few short Youtube interviews ((at link above)) from protesters, and a racist nutjob from the DNC rules committee yesterday.....we are in a bad, bad way.
If Obama does not put Clinton on the ticket, I honestly believe he will be committing political suicide, as distasteful as that may be."
LOL.
God bless Rush Limbaugh and Operation Chaos.
“...(older) white women and gays ...”
Those are two very important sources of funding and campaign workers for the donks.
| OBAMA’S SUPPORTERS READ LIKE A LIST OF WHO’S WHO AMONG RACISTS, THUGS, MUSLIMS, MARXIST AND AMERICAN HATERS OF THE WORLD. >William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist) |
Great list and rant!
Thank you Nit!!
Obama’s friends list PING.
OK, I’ll give your ping a bump, lol.
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