We thing alike, old pard!
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Posted on 02/20/2008 12:46:28 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Barack Obama’s landslide victory in Wisconsin. The race is over. Hillary Clinton is over. Her electability is over. Bill Clinton’s political invincibility is over. The Clinton Restoration is over.
It’s over.
Obama got to the far left faster than Hillary did. He out-organized her, out-fundraised her, out-speechified her, out-hustled her, out-dressed her, and out-presidentialed her. He outbid Hillary for votes, one promised government check at a time. His 17-point margin of victory in Wisconsin was incredible. It says he can’t be stopped.
Outside of the whacko ultra-left Madison college population, which is even worse than the Ohio State population, Wisconsin is a lot like Ohio. And Ohio campuses will go for Obama. Think faculty voters, grimly determined for a left-wing takeover of America “from the bottom up,” to use the Saul Alinsky community-organizer phrase. As goes Wisconsin, so goes Ohio.
Not even Hillary’s last-minute bashing of business, free trade, and free-market capitalism — which was a complete repudiation of her husband’s presidency — could save her. Obama got there first, with a style and elegance that Hillary simply couldn’t match.
And it came out of nowhere. On the eve of the Wisconsin primary, Hillary did a hard-left imitation of John Edwards’s populist and demagogic soak-the-rich rhetoric. She trashed some of the greatest businesses in America — oil, credit-card, insurance, and pharmaceutical firms. Wall Street and lending firms. It all must have come as quite a shock to the alumni of the Bill Clinton White House who are working for her campaign.
Robert Rubin may have been too busy tending to Citigroup’s sub-prime collapse to keep Hillary on the reservation. But where were Wall Street’s Roger Altman and Washington’s Gene Sperling when Hillary discarded the pinstripes for the polyester lefty-union pantsuit?
Bashing business comes naturally to Obama. But for Hillary it was a complete failure. Exit polls from Wisconsin say the trade protectionists went with Obama. Union members? Obama. People who think the economy’s in trouble? Obama. Folks who don’t think it’s in trouble? Obama. People making less than $50,000 a year? Obama. More than $50,000 a year? Obama.
And it only gets worse.
Voters went with Obama on healthcare by 8 points, on the economy by 16 points, and on Iraq by 20 points. Churchgoers and non-churchgoers went with Obama. Most qualified to be commander-in-chief? Obama. College degree or no college degree? Obama. Democrats, Republicans, and independents went with Obama. So did blacks and whites.
White women did in fact lean toward Hillary, by a small 52 to 47 percent margin. But Hillary only got 31 percent of the male vote while tying the female vote. White males? They went with Obama by a full 29 points.
Obama won both married men and women, and he tied on unmarried women — a heretofore Hillary stronghold. Most likely to unite the country? Obama, by almost 30 points. Most interested in improving relations with the rest of the world? Obama, 56 to 40.
You think these trends are going to change in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania? I don’t — no matter what last-gasp neutron-negativism tactics the Clinton team employs.
Bash Obama for plagiarizing Deval Patrick? That negativism backfired. Go after Michelle Obama’s incredible anti-American speech? Women are coming ’round to Obama, so try again. Go super-negative over the next two weeks? That’ll mean Obama beats Hillary by 35 points instead of 20. Lift the sanctions on the Michigan and Florida delegates? That’s an Obama trump card. Bribe or rent the super-delegates? Make my day, Obama is thinking.
If Hillary wants to preserve her career as a professional politician her best bet is to pull back in Texas and Ohio as a prelude to withdrawal. Bill will say no, ’cause his career is even deader than hers. But Hillary has more class than her husband. She also has some vague sense of reality — of the difference between right and wrong.
The Intrade pay-to-play prediction market showed Obama with a 10 point gain after Wisconsin, giving him an insurmountable 81 to 19 lead. It’s as if Hillary has suddenly become a steeply inverted yield curve, with a rapidly declining credit rating and a liquidity pool that’s quickly drying up. She won’t be able to raise two wooden nickels going forward. Not even Bill can raise enough money in Dubai to keep her out of bankruptcy.
The market has officially pulled the plug on Hillary, terminating her campaign. What’s left for her now is to muster some grace, humility, and character and begin the process of pulling out. To do otherwise will destroy the Democratic party, and what’s left of the Clintons’ badly tarred and tattered reputation.
All I can say is yowsah!
I have.
Just look for a beast wearing a pants-suit.
If Minister Obama loses either the nomination or the election, there’s going to be blood in the streets. And if he wins ... well, there’s going to be blood in the streets. Remember, his most ardent supporters are the people who burn down Detroit when the Pistons win.
We thing alike, old pard!
Now showing at Democrat Primaries... nationwide!
Let the games... begin!
Nope. This is exactly why Senator Clinton will win - because everyone thinks she’s toast.
Between Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania all coming up, Clinton has major poll leads in all three. That’s 577 votes up for grabs, with the majority being hers.
Larry Sinclair. This years’ October Surprize.
...or what will happen during the Clinton’s watch.
He should probably stay off the balcony.
This sentence is the key. Billy has been getting tons of money in anticipation of Hillary becoming president. If she loses power, he loses earning potential
John McCain. 2008’s version of Bob Dole.
I don't know that hildebeeste will win. I am convinced that she will stop at nothing (and I mean that quite literally) in her effort to win. I have seldom seen her kind of raw power-lust in a political figure.
There already is a huge rift - the small group of prolifers they’ve allowed in recently in order to win the last election will only grow each cycle.
Somewhere there seems to be the need for an “its all over but the crying” flip remark or something that the author missed to finish his article. Hillary seems to be as good at that as Bill was he knew the cameras were watching him at funerals.
FWIW, I don’t think it is as over as the article would like us to think. There are still some big states left that could really help her.
I’ve been saying this all along when people were looking at Obama as being a niave victim of Hillary, I said Hillary is a rank amatuer compared to Obama. Scary stuff.
I don’t know of ONE realistic person who thought Bubba would get the boot by the Senate. There are too many senators with skeletons.
As for Hilly, I wouldn’t count her out yet either. There are lots of bodies that can be buried between now and the RAT convention.
I am looking forward to the day when the headline and story match...Hillary It’s Over
Bills strongarming days are over. I bet Obama knows how to strong arm much better than the Clintons do.
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