IN IT TO WIN IT--WHATEVER IT TAKES
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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Want to see Hillary lose but then again, will be fun to keep this fighting going.
I think a duel at 20 paces is the only way to end this madness. With any luck they will get each other.
There, fixed it.
That is a fair statement; and neither is Hillary.
I want it all through their convention and the “Re-Create ‘68” crowd to give us not the Chicago 7 but the Denver Dozen on Federal Charges for rioting, conspiracy to incite a riot, and inciting a Riot.
Then I want the loser of the bitter brokered convention to bad-bad-bad-bad mouth the winner of the convention all the way to National Election Day.
Hitlery will win Pennsylvania by a landslide.
so emotional, this Andrew fella. that’s always been Mr Sullivan.
Sheeze, just like all the dems I know. Love and admiration for a guy that has no accomplishments, other than that he is the chosen one. And pure hatred for the Clintons, something which is strange, coming from them, she is the non-Obama and that is the only reason. She is standing in the way of their god figure. I often chided my family about these Clintoons and they wouldn’t have it, until now.
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.
I keep hearing about how this campaign is oh so nasty. I don’t see it. I wish it were nasty. I wish Obama was getting analyzed and probed and dissected. It’s only recently that this has been happening a little to him, but it hasn’t been by Clinton or the mainstream media.
Hillaary is setting up for the next election. If she destroys Obarama now, and he loses, she will be the front runner the next election.
If Hillary! wasn’t running there would be absolutely no hard questions asked of Obama. Let the infighting continue as long as possible.
Agreed. All this talk about it being within 5 points is B.S. Hillary will win by double digits.
Mostpromising candidae since JFK?????What has this guy been smoking. If he thinks this campaign has been conducted in the swamp, then he is awful naive. This has been childs play.
A little b/g on this silly pundit Andrew Sullivan: “a sort of youngish Lord Copper (the owner of the Daily Beast in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Scoop), retrofitted for the age of identity politics. Although he is constantly denouncing identity politics when other people (especially blacks) engage in them, Sullivan’s own elaborate and widely publicized identity accounts for many of his views. He tirelessly reminds us that he is - let me see if I can remember the full litany - a gay British Catholic immigrant HIV-positive conservative”
Sullivan’s crusades for classic identity politics obsessions like gay marriage and allowing HIV-infected aliens to immigrate are closely tied up with his campaign to publicize his own identity. You don’t become a celebrity by being better informed and more insightful than your peers (although it can occasionally help), but by making your personality better known. Otherwise, a brilliant but self-effacing journalist like Frank Miele of Skeptic Magazine would be more famous than 98% of the talking heads you see on TV.
from VDare 2001
The Bullet Hole
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/bullet.html
Oh brother. What a drama queen.
If Obama were actually more than the empty suit that he is, it would not matter in the least what Hillary did or did not do in the primaries.
The fact of the matter is that the only way that either of these two candidates can win in the general election is to have the liberal news media unite behind a single Democrat candidate and cover up their dirt for them. However, as a result of the ongoing Democrat primaries, the liberal news media is split between two favorites. The result is that, as the two wings of the liberal news media champion their favorite Democrat candidate, they are, collectively, actually doing the honest job of reporting flaws in a candidate that news media should be doing.
That honest coverage of these two extremely flawed Democrat candidates is poison to the Democrats in the upcoming general election.
I don't think so. Four or eight years is a long time. I think democrats are having buyers remorse on both candidates. There are probably more qualified and dignifed rats on the sidelines thinking.... if this is the best we can do, I'm jumping in next time around.
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