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Monday, February 27, 2006

Hillary Falls Off the Edge

In case there was any doubt before, Senator Hillary Clinton has fallen off the deep end. Until now, I really thought she was doing a decent job of straddling the line between the far-left - but strong - fringe of the Democratic Party, while keeping herself moderate enough to attract the mainstream Democrats. Today, though, she slipped into the throes of the left:
Reacting to a new book quoting Karl Rove as saying she will be the 2008 Democratic nominee for president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist "spends a lot of time obsessing about me."
Say what?
Noting that Rove and his White House aides have met regularly with her possible opponents in the 2006 Senate race, Clinton said, "He spends more time thinking about my political future than I do."
Wow. That's pretty crazy. Obsessing? The President's chief advisor is "obsessed" with her? Well, let's see what brought this up. Apparently, this is the quote from Rove in a new book:
In a new book out Monday from Regnery Publishing, "Strategery" by veteran reporter Bill Sammon, Rove is quoted as saying: "She is the dominant player on their side of the slate. Anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves."
That's a pretty normal statement. I think most people assume that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic primary - despite the wishes of many Democrats that she lose, as discussed here earlier today, fearing her getting crushed in the general election. In fact, Rove himself touched on the idea which many Democrats recognize:
Rove also says he thinks Clinton could have difficulty in the general election, in part, because there is a "brittleness about her." That seems to mirror recent comments by Mehlman that Clinton "seems to have a lot of anger" and that Americans don't elect angry presidential candidates.
Well, Hillary certainly isn't helping her case with comments such as today's. Paranoia is destroying what's left of the Democratic Party.

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17 comments:

  1. For some reason, the link is broken. : (

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  2. Sounds like Perot's line about the CIA being out to get him...

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  3. Sorry, Irina - the link is working for me...

    Romach - Almost. See how far that got him!

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  4. Brittleness? Hillary Clinton?!?! That's insane. She's one of the toughest people around. This is the same BS as "Kerry looks french." It's basically the Republicans making fun of how people look and sound. They know they'd lose on the issues, so they always pull some crap like this.

    Hmm, I wonder why they aren't talking about McCain's temper. Well, actually, I'm sure they will in the primary.

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  5. Ezzie, I'm sorry, I really can't see why this comment makes her "far-left".

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  6. JA - That's not how I understood 'brittleness'... I understood it as cold, harsh...

    And I would argue that it's more often the Dems who pull such games; Bush is "dumb" (despite having better grades than Kerry), a black man is an "Oreo", Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are "sellouts", etc.

    OM - I think it's a very paranoid, out of touch with reality, accusatory statement that implies that basically says Rove is this evil conniving man whose sole purpose is to keep the Dems out of power. That's simply nuts.

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  7. JA - That's not how I understood 'brittleness'... I understood it as cold, harsh...

    Maybe. She certainly doesn't have Bill's warmth. Look for the lesbian innuendo that's sure to come from the Republicans, btw. I guarantee it.

    And I would argue that it's more often the Dems who pull such games; Bush is "dumb" (despite having better grades than Kerry), a black man is an "Oreo", Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are "sellouts", etc.

    I agree that Dems often make fun of Republicans as being "dumb." Quayle, Ford, W, etc. I hardly think many Dems call anybody an "Oreo." And the people who do call Republicans names certainly are never the big guns like Rove and Mehlman, just amateurs.

    OM - I think it's a very paranoid, out of touch with reality, accusatory statement that implies that basically says Rove is this evil conniving man whose sole purpose is to keep the Dems out of power. That's simply nuts.

    Well, he might not be "evil," but basically his whole job (until his recent upgrade) was to be a "conniving man whose sole purpose is to keep the Dems out of power." That's hardly paranoid.

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  8. JA - Lesbian innuendo? No. I think they'll be smart and let her destroy herself.

    Oreo was a big deal a few months ago: Some liberal big guns [head of NAACP I believe] (though not the top) were defending the use of the word. I've yet to hear Rove or Mehlman call anybody anything; I don't think saying Hillary will be the 2008 candidate is anything strange.

    The point is he's not evil; of course, he's trying to win the election, just as any campaign manager is. The accusations he faces on a daily basis are incredible.

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  9. Mrs. Clinton fell off the deep end long ago...

    She is so busy trying to move to the center that she isn't focusing on staying on the beam...if you hear a descending whistling sound...that is Hillary's political career...

    Thanks for the baby well wishes over at the nest :)


    Bradley
    The Egel Nest

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  10. Ezzie:

    JA - Lesbian innuendo? No. I think they'll be smart and let her destroy herself.

    If she makes it out of the primaries, I guarantee it.

    Oreo was a big deal a few months ago: Some liberal big guns [head of NAACP I believe] (though not the top) were defending the use of the word.

    I don't like the word. I'm not surprised someone at NAACP would use it, but they don't represent the Dems (although they are obviously Dems.)

    I've yet to hear Rove or Mehlman call anybody anything; I don't think saying Hillary will be the 2008 candidate is anything strange.

    In your post, they called her brittle and angry. In the last election a "Bush advisor" said "Kerry looks French."

    The point is he's not evil; of course, he's trying to win the election, just as any campaign manager is.

    Campaigning against McCain's black child was evil. Outing plame (if he was involved) was evil. Cynically going after the homophobic vote is evil.

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  11. I don't like the word. I'm not surprised someone at NAACP would use it, but they don't represent the Dems (although they are obviously Dems.)

    The first usage was by actual Democrats; I think the crazy guy in Congress, drawing a blank on his name. He was in Faranheit 9/11.

    In your post, they called her brittle and angry. In the last election a "Bush advisor" said "Kerry looks French."

    Those are descriptions of how her personality comes across, not name-calling. I thought the French-looking thing was a joke (as it was in Best of the Web), but if someone said it to make a point, that's wrong.

    Campaigning against McCain's black child was evil. Outing plame (if he was involved) was evil. Cynically going after the homophobic vote is evil.

    Don't know enough about McCain; nobody outed Plame, but let's not get onto that one; and I'll agree with the last one: Such as Edwards bringing up Cheney's daughter during the debate. That was simply wrong (and stupid, because Cheney made him out to be a moron by simply not responding).

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  12. 'Rove is this evil conniving man whose sole purpose is to keep the Dems out of power'

    Everyone on the GOP side of things in Washington would agree with everything in the above statement other than the word "evil".

    Sen. Clinton's positions put her right in the center with respect to New York politics.

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  13. Sen. Clinton's positions put her right in the center with respect to New York politics.

    Meaningless. Bloomberg would be a Democrat in most of the country. That she's in the middle with respect to NY is an example of how far-left she is.

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  14. Once you get outside of New York City, the state is pretty much like the rest of the US. The suburbs are trending Democratic -- but so are suburbs around Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and much of the midwest and California. Upstate is a mix of rust belt (Democratic) and rural (Republican). She did really well upstate in 2000.

    (The Democratic suburban trend is something that ought to make long term GOP planners shudder. The rural areas in Ohio and Iowa that won Bush the election are not growing. In New England, even the rural areas have turned Democratic -- but political allegiances in New England are so different from the rest of the country that it may not indicate a trend.)

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  15. In general, however, the population shifts are to red states from blue ones. This will keep shifting electoral votes in favor of the GOP. All trends must be tracked, but I'd say most of them are either neutral of favoring the GOP for now. Abortion is playing a *major* role in this.

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