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Third Party Run for Hillary?
Wed, 04/23/2008 - 10:13am | mal contends
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Most rational, honest observers (those are not whom we see on cable TV) know that absent a historic meltdown by Obama, Hillary Clinton has virtually no chance of winning the Democratic nomination.
Her nine-digit win in the quasi-machine state of Pennsylvania excites only those with a vested interest in seeing her continue in the race.
Here's an updated reposting of one rationale explaining why Hillary stays in, consistent with known facts: A third-party/independent run.
In Hillary Clinton's willingness to blow up a historic Democratic constituency (the African-American vote, now voting against here nine-to-one), her embrace of John McCain's national security credentials over Barack Obama's, and her utilization of rightwing media organs to smear Obama, right as her money is drying up, one sees at least the outlines of a rationale for the messianic Hillary to morph into Joe Lieberman and stage an independent run for the presidency.
Said James Carville in April: "Well, you know the convention is not the end game, folks. Now, don’t get me wrong I think Hillary Clinton will get the nomination in the end. But, if the Washintonian elites decide to throw her under the bus, who could blame her if she took this all the way to November."
Bill has been building up McCain for months, saying McCain is a “moderate”
Certainly Hillary possesses the sense of entitlement and burn-down-the-house drive to wage such a battle.
And the Clinton's loyalty to the Democratic Party has never been that strong. Hillary is a Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Democrat.
Her continued presence in the race and her general-election attacks speaks clearly that she really does not care what damage she inflicts on the Democratic nominee.
Maybe Hillary does care, and wishes to subtly inflict as much damage as possible, weakening Obama for her historic third-party run facing a weakened Obama and a historically weak GOP.
Such a run would be the realization of the ultimate triangulation.
What's to stop her? Hillary's lack of ambition, Hillary's loyalty to the Democratic Party?
We'll see.
Most rational, honest observers (those are not whom we see on cable TV) know that absent a historic meltdown by Obama, Hillary Clinton has virtually no chance of winning the Democratic nomination.
Her nine-digit win in the quasi-machine state of Pennsylvania excites only those with a vested interest in seeing her continue in the race.
Here's an updated reposting of one rationale explaining why Hillary stays in, consistent with known facts: A third-party/independent run.
In Hillary Clinton's willingness to blow up a historic Democratic constituency (the African-American vote, now voting against here nine-to-one), her embrace of John McCain's national security credentials over Barack Obama's, and her utilization of rightwing media organs to smear Obama, right as her money is drying up, one sees at least the outlines of a rationale for the messianic Hillary to morph into Joe Lieberman and stage an independent run for the presidency.
Said James Carville in April: "Well, you know the convention is not the end game, folks. Now, don’t get me wrong I think Hillary Clinton will get the nomination in the end. But, if the Washintonian elites decide to throw her under the bus, who could blame her if she took this all the way to November."
Bill has been building up McCain for months, saying McCain is a “moderate”
Certainly Hillary possesses the sense of entitlement and burn-down-the-house drive to wage such a battle.
And the Clinton's loyalty to the Democratic Party has never been that strong. Hillary is a Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Democrat.
Her continued presence in the race and her general-election attacks speaks clearly that she really does not care what damage she inflicts on the Democratic nominee.
Maybe Hillary does care, and wishes to subtly inflict as much damage as possible, weakening Obama for her historic third-party run facing a weakened Obama and a historically weak GOP.
Such a run would be the realization of the ultimate triangulation.
What's to stop her? Hillary's lack of ambition, Hillary's loyalty to the Democratic Party?
We'll see.
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Hillary, Run-Run a third party
Submitted by Indo45 (not verified) on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 12:31am.
Run an independent, Hillary
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It's ridiculous to blame the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 5:09pm.
It's ridiculous to blame the troubles of our party on Hillary, I blame the leaders of the Democratic party for blowing this and backing someone who's overall experience is lacking to say the least. A Jr.Senator, who has spent a great majority of his time as first term U.S Senator running for President. With no solid evidence to back up his claims of "Change". A Senator that's voted "present" more than any other member of the Senate and who many have expressed concern over his ability to reach across party lines, and who has been referred to as a "Radical Liberal" due to the fact that he has has been deemed as one of the most far left liberals in the democratic party, if not, the most. In Fact, he was ranked as the Most Liberal Senator of 2007. All of this only touches the tip of the iceberg as far as problematic issues with this Candidate. Even if Clinton dropped out of the race completely or even if she had done so a little earlier, I strongly believe that by handing over the nomination to Senator Obama, will be the same as hand delivering it to McCain and the Republicans in the fall. There are millions of people who voted for Clinton also, which some seem to forget and many of those people will still be unwilling to help try and place Senator Obama, with his thin record, in the most powerful office in the Country if not the world.
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