It's not what he smokes, it's what he drinks...
Posted on 04/20/2008 8:37:38 AM PDT by markomalley
Even after all the hype, this Tuesday’s vote in Pennsylvania will be a watershed primary election. This isn’t because it could determine whether Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues on its brutal, nihilistic path towards the destruction of the most promising figure in the Democratic party since Kennedy.
It isn’t because it’s been an age since the last primary vote and every nasty toxin in American culture has been drawn to the surface by the Clinton poultice. It isn’t even because Pennsylvania is an indisputably important and large state that any Democrat needs to win in November.
It is because the Clintons have turned Pennsylvania into a microcosm of what they think the general election will be in November. And the Clintons are running as the Rove Republicans. If they fail to destroy Barack Obama as effectively as Karl Rove – Bush’s master of the dark arts – destroyed Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004, with tactics just as brutal but even more personal, then they will have driven American politics to a critical point. They will have shown that the paradigm that has reigned in US politics for at least two decades has been shattered.
That’s what is being tested this coming week. It may be the most important vote in America until the final one in November.
For a month now, Obama has been pummelled by a Democrat in ways I have never witnessed in a primary campaign. Senator Hillary Clinton has directly argued that he is less qualified to be commander-in-chief than the Republican nominee, John McCain. She has said that she doesn’t know for sure that he is not a secret Muslim. She has said his choice of church is unacceptable to her.
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What an ignorant putz.
To a cockroach on the kitchen counter at 3:00 AM, just turning on the kitchen lights is considered a "brutal tactic".
The Democrats simply can't survive even-handed scrutiny and win a general election.
These "dark arts" that Mr. Sullivan finds so odious were the (gasp) unmasking them as frauds and pretenders.
Andrew, ol' buddy.
Your messiah, Obama, is a poser.
He cares nothing for America, it's customs, it's heritage, and it's defense.
Obama will be similarly unmasked, and the "brutal" tactics will be ... asking him questions and watching his reaction.
Well, duh Andrew!
Welcome to Clinton politics of personal destruction, you are just dismayed the thin veneer of moral superiority dem's think they own are being exposed.
I'm sure you would think it perfectly O.K. for the Clinton's to do what they are doing to Obama to McCain
It's "nasty" because people are starting to actually ask legitimate questions of their Anointed One (I'd say "Golden Boy" but heaven forbid I use that word)...
in fact, Hitlery will make history and surprisingly win Pennsylvania by more votes than are registered in the state!
It’s going to be funny when Hillary’s minions in the elections department “forget” to deliver ballots to the black precincts in Philly.
Exactly. The fix is in for Hitlery in PA and Osama Hussein knows it.
I can believe that to be the Clintons' backup strategy. However, it remains to be seen whether the Democrat party has had its fill of the trashy couple.
It's not what he smokes, it's what he drinks...
I hope so, but I'm afraid that after the candidate is chosen, the Dems and the Drive-Bys will all unite behind their mullah -- er, their candidate.
It always amazes me how much credit Rove gets for Bush's victories. 2000 was almost a disaster. If Rove had sent Bush to Florida instead of California just before the election, we wouldn't have had the hanging chad debacle, with Bush barely eking out a victory. And 2004 was won, not by Rove's tactics, but by the Swift Boat Vets. Rove is a weasel, and the fact that he's advising McCain is disturbing. But as long as the libs think he's Oz, maybe they'll be distracted from whatever the alternative media can dig up on Obama.
OMG, Hillary’s as bad as a REPUBLICAN!
I remember this Sullivan character and David Brock being offered up as conservatives.
Gotta wonder how many more homo spies are currently in the bushes on our side of the Alamo.
There, fixed it.
Thanks Always, I knew there was something troubling about the original quote, but couldn't put my finger on it. You hit the nail on the head.
Wow, interesting read. Brown was about to “spill the beans” on one of Clinton’s many scandals. This was NO accident.
As is this author, Sullivan.
The Dim “War Room” of the MSM/Hollywood/Academia has simply chosen Hussein this time around.
Come November, they will all align against the US and the Republican nominee, and everything will revert to normal again.
Thanks for summarizing so nicely and so succinctly what I was thinking when I read this. There's so much pathology to go around one hardly knows where to start. But the breathless tone of the writer, that there is something apocalyptic going on when in fact it's just two power mad, 60's radicals duking it out, is the main disconnect.
At least they got to be "buyers". By the time I got a chance to vote in the R primary, my top 4 candidates had left the race.
it used to be called Scorched Earth...
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