Dead Wrong
I can’t think of a more dangerous strategy than Hillary Clinton aligning herself with John McCain in hopes of knocking off Obama. According to Clinton:
“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold…”
“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.
In a recent response, I posted the following to reader, caj, who wondered about collusion:
Charles Black, who is a lobbyist and one of McCain’s top advisors, has a firm that’s owned by PR giant, Burson Marsteller, who’s CEO is none other than….Mark Penn, Hilla’s chief advisor. Wonder if the game is rigged and who the mole might be? Maybe not so far-fetched, particularly given how incredibly “stupid” Penn’s strategies have been.
This is exactly what I’ve been worried about since Tuesday. Her team, once again, is astonishingly tone-deaf. There are plenty of ways Hillary can differentiate herself from Obama without leaving just the bones and feeding the election to McCain. In the first place, no Dem can match up mano-a-mano with McCain on national security and they shouldn’t try. Not being George Bush is good enough these days and they should change the subject. But isn’t it the economy that has most of us walking the floorboards every night? Isn’t that one of Hillary’s real strengths, and a perceived weakness for Obama?
Apparently Penn can’t/won’t see it any other way, and Hillary lacks the sensitivity to understand that she’s playing with real fire.
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Dumbocrats, Hillary, Obama, VOTE!.
Comments: 8
Comments
Comment from Sasha
Time: March 6, 2008, 8:37 pm
In addition, Hillary (and her crew) violates the Reagan Rule — never speak ill of another Republican. He was right. She is wrong.
And then there is that really really stupid thing where her campaign compares Obama to Ken Starr for demanding her tax returns. On what planet would you want to remind voters of Ken Starr?
If this is how she manages a campaign how would she manage the country?
Comment from Max
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:16 pm
The effort in Iraq is unmaintainable by the United States, and we have been out maneuvered at every turn. Republican blundering set up so that this would happen.
Well, I don’t think the Iraq situation will stay static, America’s position will deteriorate further. Before the election. It is an unsolvable mess, and Hillary should quit pretending she would be more effective there than Barack would be.
There is no solution for America except to leave.
Comment from Dr. Morpheus
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:17 pm
Maybe Hill didn’t break the Reagan rule- maybe she’s a stealth Republican. Hey, give it some thought, it’s not so far-fetches (think broke in 2002, 50M by 2007).
Comment from timr
Time: March 7, 2008, 10:04 am
LC, what clinton has been doing/saying over the last few days is amazing. She(barely)won in Tx-because several counties who were almost 100% repig did not cast any votes at all for any repig candidate(I was wrong, I thought they would go for Obama because they hate clinton so much, but they think that clinton can be easily beaten,the base will show up much more to vote against clinton) yet she,and her campaign workers, are acting as if they lost. Obama did make up one hell of a lot, one month ago she was ahead by over 20 points in both Tx and Oh. He made up a whole lot.
Comment from Sasha
Time: March 7, 2008, 10:33 am
timr, it looks like she didn’t win Texas at all. The way it looks now, Obama will end up with more delegates.
Comment from Nosebetter
Time: March 7, 2008, 12:55 pm
Sasha:
Hillary won the popular vote. Apparently Obama only wants the popular vote to count when it benefits him. The Super Delegates will decide who wins this election. I think they have over 700 votes. Neither side can win unless they capture over half of them.
Comment from Sasha
Time: March 7, 2008, 1:14 pm
“Apparently Obama only wants the popular vote to count when it benefits him. ” What does that mean? The popular vote never counts. Never did; never will.
And the superdelegates? Maybe yes, maybe no. Puerto Rico could put him over the top. I think you need to check your counts. I can’t imagine that a ‘majority’ of superdelegates would be required under any circumstances.
Comment from Nosebetter
Time: March 8, 2008, 2:01 pm
I’m not saying that the superdelegates always determine the outcome or that they represent more than half of the needed votes. What I am saying is that with the combination of the delegates already won and with remaining delegates likely to be won by each candidate, the nominee will be determined by the superdelegates because neither candidate will have 2025 votes unless superdelegates are counted.
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