Full. Scale. Crisis.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Archived | The Impending Collapse Of Hillary Clinton? — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Wow, I really need to see how Tuesday night's Democratic debate went. I mean, look at the reaction:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate's debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.
Mark Penn, Clinton's senior strategist and pollster, and Jonathan Mantz, the campaign's finance director, told the supporters on the call, which The Hill listened to in its entirety, that they expect attacks from Clinton's rivals to continue, and she will need the financial resources to deflect their attacks.
Clinton came under withering assault in the Philadelphia debate, and some supporters on the call agreed with analysts that she stumbled.
"I wouldn't say she lost her cool," one caller said. "But I would say she lost her footing."
The caller addded that Clinton's response to questions about records from her time in the White House that have been sealed by the National Archives "made me roll my eyes."
The criticisms followed Penn's assertion that Clinton was "unflappable." He also said criticisms from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) would backfire and that he was already "detecting some backlash," particularly among female voters.
Those female voters are saying, "Sen. Clinton needs our support now more than ever if we're going to see this six-on-one to try to bring her down," Penn told those on the campaign call.
He, Mantz and several supporters hinted repeatedly on the call that Clinton was unfairly targeted by Tim Russert, debate moderator and host of NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Russert made it appear that President Clinton had done something new or unusual," Penn said, before adding that it "is, in fact, an extremely confusing situation ... I think there will be further clarification."
"I hope so," a female caller responded. "To me, it was the most uncomfortable part of the debate."
How uncomfortable?
This uncomfortable:
One caller from Oklahoma City said that "the questions ... were designed to incite a brawl," and that Russert's and Brian Williams's moderating was "an abdication of journalistic responsibility."
Another said Russert "should be shot," before quickly adding that she shouldn't say that on a conference call.
Too late! Incidentally, no amount of money in all the world will be enough to remedy problems with a candidate who gives diametrically opposed answers to a question within the space of a minute. Whether the Clinton people like it or not, their candidate showed a tremendous amount of vulnerability by all accounts in the last debate. And now, there's blood in the water. All the other Democrats and all of the Republicans can smell it.
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C'mon, Troll, the quote is referring to Bill Clinton, who supposedly locked up the records of Hillary's communications with him and she apparently can't do a thing to change it - that is her official story, and Penn is promoting it - that's his job. Of course, this is like when Kerry said the Army was keeping his military record secret. They were, but only becuase he wouldn't authorize disclosure. At any rate, referring to ex-presidents with the title "President" is entirely proper. The habit Dems have of never referring to President Bush by title is just customary rudeness.
Anyway, when you're running on your spouse's coattails, you get the baggage as well. Besides which, if she wanted those records released, she could easily do so. Which means she wants them closed as much as he does. What is she hiding?
and it's unfair, where's Katie Couric to redeem things? The dopes on the contact lists have never seen Russert, a former Democratic staffer, interview Republicans? How about Chris Matthews in action? Do they actually watch these shows and nothing registers.
More money won't give this overrated stumble bum a quicker wit, it won't help her escape the morass of totally contradictory positions, the camouflage she's covered her ugly self with. You want to go all over the map with vapid generalizations, say things that mock what you said thirty seconds earlier, you pay the price like an adult and not whine like a dull but spoiled ten yr old brat.
Hillary and the scum that constitute her staff want an unopposed coronation. She and they know that she isn't, and never will be, up to it. Great when snapping out mindless orders, weak when actually having to think.
Like the rest of the Democratic Party, only more so, they're tough when ladling out filth about their opponents, but mere tender babes when it comes to their psychological selves and taking return fire. But that's true of most collectivist thugs.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
is not so much that the other Dems will attach HRC. More important is that the Dems have been on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue for a long time now. Finally, at the debate, it came out and was highlighted for all the public to see on a specific issue which all can understand. Since the Republican Pres candidates are cleary against giving driver's licenses to illegals, then here is an issue that works for the Repubs.
So your money is dried up when the real fight comes.
Especially when she continues to leave such precious film clips behind...
I was going to write about this article... but not on its substance... but the 'typo'. Did you notice that she had already been elected President already in this article???? I mean President Bush gets Mr. Bush while being the active president for 7 years now... and she gets it 13 months in advance? Right after she laid an egg in the last debate... thanks for projecting Sam Youngman. I can't wait for you to call Florida for her early in 2008.
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