Posted on 09/05/2008 1:00:35 PM PDT by LdSentinal
ST. PAUL - Hillary Clinton and her roommate, the former president, make a pit stop next month in Penn sylvania. An important state for a candidate to win, this was Hillary territory. She took Scranton like Grant took Richmond. Hillary heads there again the second week of October for the Methodist equivalent of a christening. The baby is Simon Rodham. The daddy, her brother Tony Rodham. The Clintons will houseguest with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Brazil. Former president of her brother's company, Jamie has a big smile, big house, big wristwatch, beautiful blond wife with big jewelry and biiiig wallet.
Also a big Democratic outreach. His current occupation is political consultant.
I learned this from Jamie himself. And where were we when he told me all this? Deep in McCain McCountry listening to Sarah Palin. Sandwiched together in one of McCain's VIP skyboxes. The one next to us belonged to the senator's campaign manager Rick Davis. Ours belonged to the candidate's adviser Carly Fiorina. Jamie and I were a Coke bottle away from Henry Kissinger. We're talking folks who've been Republican since their first trimester.
So what's a Dem operative doing there?
"We're going to take Pennsylvania for McCain," Jamie said. "We'll win by 3 percent. We'll get Hillary supporters. The undecideds. From the coal region. Blue dog areas like Lackawanna, where it's 2-1 Democratic. We'll break into that."
I suddenly realized this McCain skybox was filled with Democratic types. Like closeted gays, one whispered: "Don't mention our names. We're not 'out' yet."
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He’ll take PA, I have never doubted it. I know the polls don’t show it, but I know this state, and McCain is going to do very very well here. I am not saying it will be a complete landslide, but he will win.
This election was over the minute Fauxbama was the nominee.. its just a bunch of libs and bush haters haven’t realized it yet. Fight hard, don’t take anything for granted, but short of a McCain senior moment, or Palin falling apart in a debate, or some giant geopolitical event that no one can predict, McCain will win, and win by a large margin this election.
It won’t be a 49 state to 1 in the EC, but it will not be the 1 to 3 percent close race the pundents are talking about.
I am going out a limb here. Hillary Clinton never realized she didn’t have to work so hard. Hillary was never safe in her skin as a woman. I have to wonder who made her feel this way.
Remember her saying she did the”spadework”? It was not a racist statement. It was a liberal woman saying that she did what she had to do to work her way through the ranks in the NAGworld.
Feel kind of sorry for her. She never realized that she didn’t have to wear pantsuits and act angry. She had all the tools of every other woman . She was trapped in the Marxist world that denied her femininity and real success.
Palin is what Hillary wanted and will never get. Thats what happens when you hitch your wagon to the left. Always wanting, never getting.
Cataldi’s bailed on Obama, too.
Did anyone hear Ann Coulter on Neil Cavuto talk about O sending out his feministas to secure the glass ceiling against further damage? She was priceless.
Folks, I lived in Philly (NE) for over 30 years. McCain will take lead in PA soon. Outside of the inner hoods, the NE and burbs in Philly will go solid for McCain/Palin. Why? Because this isn’t Gore / Kerry - it’s “OBAMA”. Those folks will NOT do the grass-roots/union push that it will take to bring in the white vote for OBAMA. Obama can count for heavy black vote, but the truth of the matter is that this equation will not work this time around.
Amazing...... headlines should read
“FEMBOTS DESPERATELY WORK TO PROTECT THE GLASS CEILING”
Hillary has a tightrope to walk. She has to look like she is doing a solid job for Obama...she can’t come right out and say what the truth is....the Clintons want Obama to lose so HRC can run in 2012...but I suspect some of the Clinton big wigs will be working backchannel, and HRC will try and do the bare minimum without ticking off the Dem party.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see Big Bill make a couple more “oops” comments.
Ann is priceless.
18 million cracks, a few more and it will be raining McCain.
Let’s keep that sentiment alive here!
“Within 1 week, Obama’s campaign has gone from “historic” & compared to Lincoln, down to “pathetic” & compared to McGovern. All because of Sarah Palin on the #2 slot”
Yes indeed. Our gal Sarah has done to BHO what The Rev Jesse could only mumble.
Hillary onstage: I support Obama...
Bill backstage to party mechanics: ...going back to Illinois
Pennsylvania elections are a contest of counting dead people and pets registered to vote in Philadelphia vs the rest of the state.
If McCain wins PA, its over.
DON'T FORGET THIS:
FROM 2004:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266241/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266123/posts
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE NOV 02, 2004 09:06:35 ET XXXXX
UPDATE: VOTES ‘FOUND ON MACHINES’ IN PHILLY BEFORE POLLS OPEN
Before voting even began in Philadelphia — Republican poll watchers believed they found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered in heavy-minority locations throughout the city.
Republican poll watchers claim:
One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8.
Pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500...
A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day.
ANOTHER INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa..
ANOTHER: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa...
You could be right. I moved out of PA about 20 years ago. But I called my 81 year old, died-in-the-wool Democrat mother after Palin was named. She’s voting Republican for the first time in her life (and she never misses a vote). She’s lukewarm to McCain but loves Sarah.
Hillary is going to want McCain to win by a landslide. She doesn’t want to lose the head of the Rat Party to Obama and definitely doesn’t want to face him in 4 years.
She just has to figure out a way to do it without showing her hand.
Hill and Bill figure if McCain wins, Palin gets smeared for four years by the press, then Hill will be flying high.
Almost the same here, my wifes Grandparents in PA always vote D, not this time. They both are going McCain
Indylindy I think you are really on to something here. “She had all the tools of every other woman... etc”. Women have incredible power and it does not come from trying to act like men.
Sarah is a natural and both men and women are drawn to her. She is comfortable in her own skin.
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