Dems Look to Hillary to Rescue Party From Sharpton

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/08/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

An unexpectedly strong early showing by Democratic Party presidential hopeful Rev. Al Sharpton has party faithful looking to Hillary Clinton to rescue Democrats in 2004.

With charismatically challenged candidates like Sens. John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards leaving audiences yawning - and Sharpton wowing crowds wherever he shows up - "U.S. News and World Report" predicts:

"If a favorite other than Sharpton doesn't become obvious by late fall, look for a strong effort to draft Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton."

"The Iowa Democratic Party," says the magazine's "Washington Whispers" column, "is already thinking that. We hear it wants Clinton as the featured speaker at an annual fall event--an invite that's irked Sen. John Kerry."

Democratic strategists fear that Sharpton "could actually score big" in the South, reports "Whispers." Others predict that the radical reverend could even win the South Carolina primary.

Last week, NewsMax.com's report that Sharpton is the presidential frontrunner among New York City Democrats in a recent Zogby International survey sent usually reliable party organs like the Washington Post into fits of apoplexy.

"Truth is, at this point, polls really don't mean much of anything," huffed the Post's Terry Neal, who, along with the rest of his media colleagues, was doing his best not to notice the Sharpton coup until NewsMax spilled the beans.

Mr. Neal, however, failed to explain why his paper and so many others keep commissioning, let alone reporting on, all those early, meaningless presidential polls.

The fact is, Rev, Sharpton is the nation's most popular presidential candidate among black voters, according to a separate Time/CNN poll. And if his supporters can't be convinced to support a white Democrat come Nov. 2004, the party's presidential prospects are toast.

No wonder party insiders are looking to the wife of "America's first black president" to save the day.

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[Paleo Conservative]

We need to organize a massive Freep of the DemocRAT presidential primaries in 2004. Go Sharpton Go!

[janetgreen]

Sharpton could ask Tawana Brawley to be his running mate.

[Mr. Blond]

But, aren't the Dems supposed to be the black man's best friend? Sounds like a black president would be their worst nightmare.

[Mr. Mojo]

Hillary running in '04 will be predicated on the state of the economy and the success of the WOT, not on Al Sharpton and the other Rat contenders.

[Alberta's Child]

Newsmax is really at the forefront in breaking these stories, isn't it?

/sarcasm off/

90% of the "news" on that site is nothing more than a story about a story that another media outlet has already run. Just like this one.

[ThePythonicCow]

Go Sharpton Go!

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[nightdriver]

Didn't Hillary cozy up to Big Al in order to get herself elected to the Senate? This might be a sticky wicket for Her Heinous.

[First_Salute]

Hillary Clinton will be the candidate; Bill Richardson will be her running mate.

[Slyfox]

No wonder party insiders are looking to the wife
of "America's first black president" to save the day.

America's First Black Woman President

[JFoxbear]

Hill and Bill ! What a ticket !

The team to beat?

[noutopia]

Go for it Al,I will vote for you.

[chasio649]

I quit paying attention to that site long ago....they have had soooo many articles on there that have been phony baloney hype.

[giotto]

Sharpton better watch his back...and fly only in commercial aircraft.

[metalboy]

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? In order to keep Sharpton from getting the DNC nomination, Hitlery would run - it's only gonna get funnier from here on out.

Good! Let's beat the snot out of her in 2004 - and crush the rest of the dems - and it will take them 40 years or more to recover. In the meantime, we can get a few important things done.

[Leto]

Headline: DEMS grab rock to help them float.

It's starting to look like the Rats are on their collective way to becoming Darwin award winners.

[ALS]

[friendly]

Sharpton is a lying, drug dealing, extortionist, race hustler pig of a humanoid. That being said, he loves to ferociously dish it out to the truly obnoxious evil white liberals who are the "massas" of the democrat plantation.

Sharpton particularly dispises all things Clinton and Kennedy, in Michael Savage type of detailed particulars. Hillary truly wants him dead, for the dirt (truth) he drops on her.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.