Posted on 03/03/2008 6:10:14 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
Agreed.
Hillary has 100% name recognition and a 50% negative rating. Her negatives aren't going to go down during the campaign (unless her negatives go higher), so as long as McCain can get a decent turnout he'll win in a walk.
Not to mention that Hillary adopted the same boneheaded strategy that forced Giuliani to bow out in disgrace - concentrate on winning a few key states (in her case, the early ones) without bothering to build a solid cross-country organization. That's why she's struggling now; she was counting on being able to coast on momentum that she never got.
Obama, on the other hand, is a scary candidate. He's getting better in the debates every single time, and has become a much better candidate. He's got a strong organization in every state across the nation, is raising money hand over fist and (as much as we hate to admit it) he's borrowed the most successful page from Reagan's book, forcing us to run a national campaign against hope and optimism.
I would much rather face Hillary in the general. We ought not let our long-festering disdain for BJ blind us to the realities of today.
I agree. As much as I would like to have them slug it out into the summer, dividing the ‘Rats into implacably hostile “race versus gender” camps all the way to Denver, then have a really hot, muggy stretch of days with an air-conditioning failure in the convention center - with full color coverage of the carnage, maybe with Jerry Springer narrating between the flying chairs and ashtrays - I think that if Obama can finish off the Clintons once and for all, with major malice, then Shrillary and the Sinkmeister will help us send Obama to the trash heap of history, or better yet - to the defendant’s chair of a Chicago courtroom.
—Hillary has to be defeated tomorrow or I am afraid she will come back.—
Let’s be honest. McCain doesn’t have a prayer of victory in November. We’re going to be stuck with a democrat POTUS either way, better it’s Obama than Shrillary.
“Hillary has 100% name recognition and a 50% negative rating.”
You can win with high negatives. Nixon proved that. It is done by driving up the other guy’s negatives, which the Clintons are masterful at. If it is Obama versus McCain, the election will be driven by fear. If it is Hillary, it will be driven by hatred. Hillary is capable of making the American people hate McCain more than her. Obama is not capable of making the American people fear McCain more than they will fear him (Obama).
Obama’s little helpers have even taken to using his middle name as thier own. Can this phone bank be used against him? http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGgCNf
Piss on Hillary and Bill.
—Obama is not capable of making the American people fear McCain more than they will fear him (Obama).—
Obama will make McNutty an object of fear by portraying him as a daft, old Captain Queeg with his finger on the “button”; he’ll also make McLame an object of derision (i.e. a joke) by making him appear enfeebled and out of touch.
I agree, I don’t understand why Republicans are so afraid of the Clintons. Hitlery would not win the general election.
Irrelavent if those people stay home in November.
Too many Freepers are “pimping” for Hillary. I understand their misguided reasons for doing so, but I won’t vote for her or Borat tomorrow.
Obama would be very tough in the general. If the economy is still weakening all he has to do is come out with an economic plan that isn’t verbatim out of the Communist Manifesto and he wins. He is getting better as a candidate and he hasn’t made any major mistakes. Plus, the contrast of his youthful vigor versus the sickly old man the Republicans have chosen would be dramatic.
—Plus, the contrast of his youthful vigor versus the sickly old man the Republicans have chosen would be dramatic.—
We have a winner! Give that man a cigar.
He is getting better as a candidate and he hasn’t made any major mistakes. Plus, the contrast of his youthful vigor versus the sickly old man the Republicans have chosen would be dramatic.
Thank you. That's my point.
McCain comes across as the grumpy old man, yelling for kids to stay off his lawn.
Hillary comes across as a shrill harridan.
Obama comes off as young and vigorous, full of self-confidence.
If we're to be saddled with McCain, I know who I'd rather have as an opponent.
I’m already getting my mind around the fact of a President Obama next year. This way I won’t feel too ill when I wake up the morning after the election.
I agree. It's like the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's. Support whichever side is losing at the moment. That means Hillary for the time being.
Great point, and I don't know why people don't make more of it. Hasn't Hillary shown herself to be a completely inept, lackluster candidate? I am amazed that people are still so intimidated by her.
>>You can win with high negatives. Nixon proved that. It is done by driving up the other guy’s negatives, which the Clintons are masterful at. If it is Obama versus McCain, the election will be driven by fear. If it is Hillary, it will be driven by hatred. Hillary is capable of making the American people hate McCain more than her. Obama is not capable of making the American people fear McCain more than they will fear him (Obama).<<
Good post. I can’t believe anybody could vote for Hillary, Obama, or McCain in the primaries, but I accept reality.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t Brice’s Crossroads the famous battle in which Nathan Bedford Forrest used mobile artillery, which was studied by Erwin Rommel in the next century?
If these ba$tards get in for a third term, you can thank Rush & the Rushbots for it. ‘to keep chaos alive’. ‘Conservative’ talk radio is determined to give us the Clintons again.
Obama is a black McGovern.
I just want him to send hilllleree packing so badly that she’ll need to go out and buy more suitcases!!!
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