B+B:
Are Obama's rookie mistakes are the gift-that-keeps-on-giving. or what?
Every time Obama seems to have Clinton on, or near, the ropes, he lands a staggering punch..on his own chin.
Obama's Bitter White Voters Who Cling To Religion and Guns slander is going to further alienate white voters, thus breathing new life into Hillary Rodham Frankenstein's campaign just when she most needs it: prior to Pennsylvania and Indiana, where his remarks will hurt him and help her the most.
This almost certainly enables Clinton to struggle along another extra several weeks - eventually losing the nomination race...but long enough to damage Obama with several more weeks of attacks.
Plus - schweet! - Obama's new breathtakingly stupid, elitist, bigoted remarks not only ensure Hillary hangs around longer, erupting at inconvenient times like a case of political herpes, but it also likely hurts him so much more with white voters in key swing states that, once nominated, he cannot win in November.
Not to mention: Obama has wasted and been hurt by a weekend new cycle that features not his positive message but, instead, gives us several days of national news and discussion focusing on
his latest self-inflicted wound!
Does it get better than this?
Stay tuned.
Excelsior!
JS
(1) Remember when, just several weeks ago, Obama seemed poised to pull away from Clinton? Remember what stopped him like a head-on collision, breathing new life into Hillary Rodham Frankenstein? Yes - the alienation of millions of white voters by the racist, anti-American Rev Wright. Well, just for those few who weren't offended, these new Bitter White Voyers
Obama's rookie candidacy - and the rookie mistakes it yields - is the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans, and anybody else who wishes Democrats to lose on November 4th.
You can't win without White, Catholic, Blue-Collar voters - especially in but not limited to, rust-belt swing states (e.g. Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, et. al.).
And just in case Rev Wright didn't finish off Obma wth those voters, now
Q: When Obama was pulling away from Clinton, what killed his momentum and maybe kiled his chance to win the general election?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
OBAMA'S CHARACTER SUICIDE (Act II)
B+B:
First came The Reverend Wright Bomb.
And only Obama supporters of Totally Blind Faith - or the Blind - still believe this association did not damage their candidate, perhaps on the level of a mortal wound, with key white middle class voters.
Now comes Obama's breathtaking arrogance - and, plausibly, character suicide - as he declared Pennsylvania working class voters are "bitter" people who "cling to guns...or religion...or antipathy to people who are not like them...and anti-immigrant sentiment."
You know, Racist Rednecks.
And what you've heard (until now) isn't the worst of it: please note Obama accused voters not supporting him as "ANTI-IMMIGRANT" - which is a lie. What they - we - are is anti-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT".
ILLEGAL, get it?
Funny how the entire mainstream media missed/neglected to mention this crucial distinction.
The awful bigots Obama sees under every bed not his own are not opposed to immigrants - because they descended from immigrants, as are we all - but, again, opposed to Illegal Immigrants.
Meanwhile: "Cling to religion"?! "Antipathy to people not like themselves"?!
This surely solidifies Obama's status as unable to attract many white working and middle class voters - thus Unelectable in a General Election.
Excelsior!
JS
First came The Reverend Wright Bomb.
And only Obama supporters of Totally Blind Faith - or the Blind - still believe this association did not damage their candidate, perhaps on the level of a mortal wound, with key white middle class voters.
Now comes Obama's breathtaking arrogance - and, plausibly, character suicide - as he declared Pennsylvania working class voters are "bitter" people who "cling to guns...or religion...or antipathy to people who are not like them...and anti-immigrant sentiment."
You know, Racist Rednecks.
And what you've heard (until now) isn't the worst of it: please note Obama accused voters not supporting him as "ANTI-IMMIGRANT" - which is a lie. What they - we - are is anti-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT".
ILLEGAL, get it?
Funny how the entire mainstream media missed/neglected to mention this crucial distinction.
The awful bigots Obama sees under every bed not his own are not opposed to immigrants - because they descended from immigrants, as are we all - but, again, opposed to Illegal Immigrants.
Meanwhile: "Cling to religion"?! "Antipathy to people not like themselves"?!
This surely solidifies Obama's status as unable to attract many white working and middle class voters - thus Unelectable in a General Election.
Excelsior!
JS
Sunday, April 6, 2008
CHARLTON HESTON, REST IN SLANDER.
B+B:
So overnight Saturday night I am, as is my most peculiar wont, listening to the BBC...from which I learn that legendary actor - and, Yes indeed, citizen political activist - Charlton Heston has passed away.
Now, you have to be at least as old as me to remember Charlton Heston. Not the late night cable re-runs of Planet of the Apes Charton Heston but, rather, the Prime of His Career Heston: the definitive "Moses" in The Ten Commandments and, of course, his epic Oscar-winning lead role in Ben Hur (best actor, best picture + 9 others). Stealing a timeless line from Mad Magazine (the one, universal source of a certain brand of twisted humor associated with my generation): "This man had a 150 lb. toothbrush." Ok, you had to be there.
My point is this: the moment I learned of Heston's death, I knew - KNEW - from a lifetime of grim, disheartingly consistent observation, that Heston's obituary would be skewed and screwed and slammed and slimed.
Why? Because he was "a conservative". Not merely a conservative, according to the BBC, but a "far right winger". What did poor Moses do to deserve this unsentimental trashing of a send-off? Easy: he served a president of the National Rifle Association. That's right: Charlton Heston committed the mortal, unforgivable sin (vis the establishment media template) of...Horrors!...not just believing in, but publicly supporting the Second Ammendment to the Constitution of the United States of America - the right to bear arms.
Obvious lunatic.
But just one thing is missing in the media's unceremonious death notice. Do you know what it is?
Somehow lost in translation of the "news" media's coverage of Charton Heston's passing is the fact that he marched with Martin Luther King for human and civil rights...in the 1950s.
In the 1950s.
Long before today's civil rights gods - like, say, the Kennedy's, the Gores, et. al. - even privately thought about it.
But that doesn't make most obituary coverage. Doesn't count. "Head of the N.R.A." "Gun advocate" "Far right-winger".
That is the "news". That is how the media makes sure conservatives are remembered. With the lone exception of Ronald Reagan, whom they didn't Dare treat disrespectfully in death, that's the treatment every conservative - i.e. anyone sufficiently radical to believe what the Founding Fathers believed and died for, and the principles on which our entire civilization are based - will be treated to.
But media history isn't History.
And good, patriotic men are still Good Patriotic Men, - no matter what the BBC or the Boston Globe say.
That was Charton Heston's legacy.
And ours.
Excelsior!
JTS
So overnight Saturday night I am, as is my most peculiar wont, listening to the BBC...from which I learn that legendary actor - and, Yes indeed, citizen political activist - Charlton Heston has passed away.
Now, you have to be at least as old as me to remember Charlton Heston. Not the late night cable re-runs of Planet of the Apes Charton Heston but, rather, the Prime of His Career Heston: the definitive "Moses" in The Ten Commandments and, of course, his epic Oscar-winning lead role in Ben Hur (best actor, best picture + 9 others). Stealing a timeless line from Mad Magazine (the one, universal source of a certain brand of twisted humor associated with my generation): "This man had a 150 lb. toothbrush." Ok, you had to be there.
My point is this: the moment I learned of Heston's death, I knew - KNEW - from a lifetime of grim, disheartingly consistent observation, that Heston's obituary would be skewed and screwed and slammed and slimed.
Why? Because he was "a conservative". Not merely a conservative, according to the BBC, but a "far right winger". What did poor Moses do to deserve this unsentimental trashing of a send-off? Easy: he served a president of the National Rifle Association. That's right: Charlton Heston committed the mortal, unforgivable sin (vis the establishment media template) of...Horrors!...not just believing in, but publicly supporting the Second Ammendment to the Constitution of the United States of America - the right to bear arms.
Obvious lunatic.
But just one thing is missing in the media's unceremonious death notice. Do you know what it is?
Somehow lost in translation of the "news" media's coverage of Charton Heston's passing is the fact that he marched with Martin Luther King for human and civil rights...in the 1950s.
In the 1950s.
Long before today's civil rights gods - like, say, the Kennedy's, the Gores, et. al. - even privately thought about it.
But that doesn't make most obituary coverage. Doesn't count. "Head of the N.R.A." "Gun advocate" "Far right-winger".
That is the "news". That is how the media makes sure conservatives are remembered. With the lone exception of Ronald Reagan, whom they didn't Dare treat disrespectfully in death, that's the treatment every conservative - i.e. anyone sufficiently radical to believe what the Founding Fathers believed and died for, and the principles on which our entire civilization are based - will be treated to.
But media history isn't History.
And good, patriotic men are still Good Patriotic Men, - no matter what the BBC or the Boston Globe say.
That was Charton Heston's legacy.
And ours.
Excelsior!
JTS
SUNDAY MORNING, HIGH ANXIETY.
B+B:
As for the past, oh, 35 years or so, it is a Sunday morning and, like all true civics geeks, I am planted in front of the TV screen watching the Talk Shows.
And, as almost always, I am experiencing High Anxiety caused by something that makes me worry for our Republic in general, and my freedom and money in particular.
Lots of Liberals making a big deal out of B. Hussein O'Bama's vapid pledge - and only campaign issue - of "Change", sometimes, "Hope".
And making Nothing of the fact that the Clintons raked in $50 Million personally in the last few years, and the Clinton Museum/Whore House $ FIVE HUNDRED MILLION - much of it from foreign governments and left wing groups barred from exceeding the $2,300 maximum campaign contribution....but, hey, no problemo!, they are allowed to pay off the Clintons (what else is new?) via the back door.
These liberal mouthpieces are not obscure fringe shut-ins; they are figures like Gov Rendell and US Sen Casey of Pennsylvania, among the media's "most respected democrat strategists" , blah, blah, blah...and they say - and don't say - these alarming things with both a straight face, and the total validation of the "mainstream" media (in this case, the Sunday Morning Program And Host Of Record, NBC/Tim Russert/Meet the Press).
Virtually undiluted socialism - and truly it is - "mainstream".
Meanwhile, with the personal-freedom-death-sentence of confiscatory taxes and the American-culture-malignant-cancer of illegal imigration by far the two most crucial domestic issues of our time (i.e. opposition to both, defeat of both), all three candidates for President are on the wrong side of both: the next President, whomever/whichever party, has a past record and a current fever of support For Higher Taxes and Illegal Immigration. No alternative, no choice. Woe is us.
Then, of course, Meet the Press was Off To The Races, as it were, with a segment on the murder of MLK. (Let me reiterate here, as on the radio, that all decent Americans were and are deeply offended by the murder of anyone because of their ideas, especially public/policy ideas, and most particularly someone whose life was devoted to the non-violent prosecution of human rights...for American citizens!)
But looking forward - in Dr. King's honor, name and memory - with a frank African American Agenda of Socialism is wrong, wrong, wrong. (And ever-likely, inevitable, inevitable, inevitable.)
Now here comes Eric M. Dyson of - where else? - Harvard (home of Loony Lonnie Guanier, she of the "Blacks' Votes Should Count More Than Whites' - really), declaring that Obama's spiritual leader and best bud, the racist cretin "Rev" Wright, is "the new Dr. King." Indeed? Was MLK hiding something big from us - or is this just another Harvard professor off his (race) rocker?
And who's next? Ah, it is Andrew Young, demanding - again, in King's name - race reparations
in the form of "a checking account for every American"! (Yes, of course, paid for by deducting money from YOUR checking account...because the taxes you already pay are too low.) "Not having capital is as eggregious racism as not having the right to vote" I believe Young is hallucinating, now, as I listen, unsurprised.
Oops - can you top this?! Here's Prof Dyson again, seeing and raising Young's idiocy, self-righteously lecturing us on the point that only Barack Obama can Heal The Nation. (I do not feel sick, do you? And if I am symptomatic, the cause is taxes and illegal immigration.)
Wait - here comes Dr. Young again: "we must start dealing with poverty now." What, we haven't trid?! Again: trillions of dollars, the machinery of government, a substantial portion of our GNP (and personal earnings) and forty years of genuine good will have failed to eradicate - or even dent - illigitimacy, illiteracy, drug addiction, poverty. Are we sure More Of The Same is The Answer?
Yes, Yes, Yes! All the left wing taking heads agree. Political Correctness does not merely thrive, does not merely dominate - it chokes out all other viewpoints (which, tragically, just happen to be the Truth).
And off of this - with gruesome irony - on the 100th anniversary of the National Press Club...that august bastion of "Journalism". It is a museum of ancient history.
Just another Sunday Morning Talk Show on the Road to Creeping - no, sprinting! - Socialism.
Excelsior! (Not.)
JTS
As for the past, oh, 35 years or so, it is a Sunday morning and, like all true civics geeks, I am planted in front of the TV screen watching the Talk Shows.
And, as almost always, I am experiencing High Anxiety caused by something that makes me worry for our Republic in general, and my freedom and money in particular.
Lots of Liberals making a big deal out of B. Hussein O'Bama's vapid pledge - and only campaign issue - of "Change", sometimes, "Hope".
And making Nothing of the fact that the Clintons raked in $50 Million personally in the last few years, and the Clinton Museum/Whore House $ FIVE HUNDRED MILLION - much of it from foreign governments and left wing groups barred from exceeding the $2,300 maximum campaign contribution....but, hey, no problemo!, they are allowed to pay off the Clintons (what else is new?) via the back door.
These liberal mouthpieces are not obscure fringe shut-ins; they are figures like Gov Rendell and US Sen Casey of Pennsylvania, among the media's "most respected democrat strategists" , blah, blah, blah...and they say - and don't say - these alarming things with both a straight face, and the total validation of the "mainstream" media (in this case, the Sunday Morning Program And Host Of Record, NBC/Tim Russert/Meet the Press).
Virtually undiluted socialism - and truly it is - "mainstream".
Meanwhile, with the personal-freedom-death-sentence of confiscatory taxes and the American-culture-malignant-cancer of illegal imigration by far the two most crucial domestic issues of our time (i.e. opposition to both, defeat of both), all three candidates for President are on the wrong side of both: the next President, whomever/whichever party, has a past record and a current fever of support For Higher Taxes and Illegal Immigration. No alternative, no choice. Woe is us.
Then, of course, Meet the Press was Off To The Races, as it were, with a segment on the murder of MLK. (Let me reiterate here, as on the radio, that all decent Americans were and are deeply offended by the murder of anyone because of their ideas, especially public/policy ideas, and most particularly someone whose life was devoted to the non-violent prosecution of human rights...for American citizens!)
But looking forward - in Dr. King's honor, name and memory - with a frank African American Agenda of Socialism is wrong, wrong, wrong. (And ever-likely, inevitable, inevitable, inevitable.)
Now here comes Eric M. Dyson of - where else? - Harvard (home of Loony Lonnie Guanier, she of the "Blacks' Votes Should Count More Than Whites' - really), declaring that Obama's spiritual leader and best bud, the racist cretin "Rev" Wright, is "the new Dr. King." Indeed? Was MLK hiding something big from us - or is this just another Harvard professor off his (race) rocker?
And who's next? Ah, it is Andrew Young, demanding - again, in King's name - race reparations
in the form of "a checking account for every American"! (Yes, of course, paid for by deducting money from YOUR checking account...because the taxes you already pay are too low.) "Not having capital is as eggregious racism as not having the right to vote" I believe Young is hallucinating, now, as I listen, unsurprised.
Oops - can you top this?! Here's Prof Dyson again, seeing and raising Young's idiocy, self-righteously lecturing us on the point that only Barack Obama can Heal The Nation. (I do not feel sick, do you? And if I am symptomatic, the cause is taxes and illegal immigration.)
Wait - here comes Dr. Young again: "we must start dealing with poverty now." What, we haven't trid?! Again: trillions of dollars, the machinery of government, a substantial portion of our GNP (and personal earnings) and forty years of genuine good will have failed to eradicate - or even dent - illigitimacy, illiteracy, drug addiction, poverty. Are we sure More Of The Same is The Answer?
Yes, Yes, Yes! All the left wing taking heads agree. Political Correctness does not merely thrive, does not merely dominate - it chokes out all other viewpoints (which, tragically, just happen to be the Truth).
And off of this - with gruesome irony - on the 100th anniversary of the National Press Club...that august bastion of "Journalism". It is a museum of ancient history.
Just another Sunday Morning Talk Show on the Road to Creeping - no, sprinting! - Socialism.
Excelsior! (Not.)
JTS
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
ON POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY
B&B:
ON POLITICS (in which I am expert)
1. KEY THEMES OF THIS ELECTION: The appalling absence of ultimate choice. Irrespective of political self-identification (i.e. repub, dem. ib. consv, et.al.), audience recognizes and loathes the idea that no matter who wins, the next President will be supportive of higher taxes (see: Dems + McCain opposition to Bush tax cuts) illegal immigration/no borders (see: Dems + McCain-Kennedy), political free speech (see: Dems + McCain-Feingold), constitutionally-oriented federal judges (see: Dems + McCain Gang of 12), Global Warming Hysteric (see: Dems + McCain campaign) etc. etc. The next President, no matter whom, will be of fundamentally liberal orientation according to majority of my audience - and they resent it.
2. THE AFFECT OF A CLOSE RACE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: As of May 1, Ralph Nader - whom everybody dismissed, but on my show we recognized as prospectively lethal - is polling at 5%!! That is likely a wider margin than the ultimate general election margin of victory/defeat. Political ignoramus believe Nader's impact is "unpredictable" or "hurts both major candidates". Demonstrable Twaddle. 99% of Nader's vote would otherwise go Dem. Thus, so long as Nader support runs at even 1%, he can be huge (i.e. decisive, Dem-killer) factor. Run Ralphie! Run!!
3. WHO WILL WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION??? I predicted in national print, radio, TV in 1998 and with somewhat obnoxious regularity ever since HRC's exact route/timing/location of her Pres ambitions. I was right in 1998 and since - but now, owing to her deeply flawed campaign and understandable negatives, I place her nomination prospects at 1-10. Which is a pity for Dems, because she could beat McCain. Obama, who CANNOT BE ELECTED will win Dem nomination and lose to McCain. And there will be riots.
4. WILL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS WARM UP TO SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN? No.
5. WHO WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER AND WHY? Contrary to conventional wisdom (always conventional, rarely wise) America IS prepared to elect an African-American (see: Condi Rice, Colin Powell, et. al.) but Not a Leftist African American, period. The combination of (1) backlash by Dems who refuse to vote if their candidate loses nomination, hence Dem under-voting (2) Dems who vote for McCain (3) underperformance (vis population % of eligible voters) by African-Americans (4) underperformance of young 'voters' (5) attraction by McCain of exceptional numbers of Independents and Dems (5) Ralph Nader..will elect John McCain.
ON THE ECONOMY (in which I am, decidedly, Not an expert)
1. HOW DO YOU COPE WITH RISING EVERYDAY COSTS? Vote against all Democrats.
2. ADVICE FOR SHORT TERM HOME BUYERS OR HOME SELLERS: Prayer.
3. HOW COULD A BANKING INDUSTRY COLLAPSE AFFECT WORKING PEOPLE? I recall in the 1980s first seeing/hearing "we are an equal-opportunity lender". I and many of us, instantly recognized there has never been, and is not, and can never be, any such thing. Some people are qualified buyers (i.e. they can pay loan back), some less so - and the difference is discernable, even obvious. "Equal opportunity lender" meant/means "we will substitute political judgement for fiscal judgment and lend lots of money to people we know in advance cannot possibly re-pay it...and pass the burden onto the gov't (i.e. all the other people who are re-paying their own loans). The banking/mortgage collapse is not complicated it is welfare write large.
4. IS THE WORST OF ECONOMIC TIMES BEHIND US OR YET TO COME? As we are evidently unwilling to apply standards that are strictly Fiscal - as opposed to Politically Correct, "Humanitarian" - i.e. fantastic), so long as we pretend, and actually practice as policy, that "everybody" "deserves" (X) - e.g. big car(s), a bigger house than they can possibly afford, etc. - we are yet to have even a Taste of how devastating this could be.
(Other than that, I am keenly optimistic!)
Respectfully submitted this 2nd day April, 2008 A.D.
Jay Severin
ON POLITICS (in which I am expert)
1. KEY THEMES OF THIS ELECTION: The appalling absence of ultimate choice. Irrespective of political self-identification (i.e. repub, dem. ib. consv, et.al.), audience recognizes and loathes the idea that no matter who wins, the next President will be supportive of higher taxes (see: Dems + McCain opposition to Bush tax cuts) illegal immigration/no borders (see: Dems + McCain-Kennedy), political free speech (see: Dems + McCain-Feingold), constitutionally-oriented federal judges (see: Dems + McCain Gang of 12), Global Warming Hysteric (see: Dems + McCain campaign) etc. etc. The next President, no matter whom, will be of fundamentally liberal orientation according to majority of my audience - and they resent it.
2. THE AFFECT OF A CLOSE RACE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: As of May 1, Ralph Nader - whom everybody dismissed, but on my show we recognized as prospectively lethal - is polling at 5%!! That is likely a wider margin than the ultimate general election margin of victory/defeat. Political ignoramus believe Nader's impact is "unpredictable" or "hurts both major candidates". Demonstrable Twaddle. 99% of Nader's vote would otherwise go Dem. Thus, so long as Nader support runs at even 1%, he can be huge (i.e. decisive, Dem-killer) factor. Run Ralphie! Run!!
3. WHO WILL WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION??? I predicted in national print, radio, TV in 1998 and with somewhat obnoxious regularity ever since HRC's exact route/timing/location of her Pres ambitions. I was right in 1998 and since - but now, owing to her deeply flawed campaign and understandable negatives, I place her nomination prospects at 1-10. Which is a pity for Dems, because she could beat McCain. Obama, who CANNOT BE ELECTED will win Dem nomination and lose to McCain. And there will be riots.
4. WILL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS WARM UP TO SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN? No.
5. WHO WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER AND WHY? Contrary to conventional wisdom (always conventional, rarely wise) America IS prepared to elect an African-American (see: Condi Rice, Colin Powell, et. al.) but Not a Leftist African American, period. The combination of (1) backlash by Dems who refuse to vote if their candidate loses nomination, hence Dem under-voting (2) Dems who vote for McCain (3) underperformance (vis population % of eligible voters) by African-Americans (4) underperformance of young 'voters' (5) attraction by McCain of exceptional numbers of Independents and Dems (5) Ralph Nader..will elect John McCain.
ON THE ECONOMY (in which I am, decidedly, Not an expert)
1. HOW DO YOU COPE WITH RISING EVERYDAY COSTS? Vote against all Democrats.
2. ADVICE FOR SHORT TERM HOME BUYERS OR HOME SELLERS: Prayer.
3. HOW COULD A BANKING INDUSTRY COLLAPSE AFFECT WORKING PEOPLE? I recall in the 1980s first seeing/hearing "we are an equal-opportunity lender". I and many of us, instantly recognized there has never been, and is not, and can never be, any such thing. Some people are qualified buyers (i.e. they can pay loan back), some less so - and the difference is discernable, even obvious. "Equal opportunity lender" meant/means "we will substitute political judgement for fiscal judgment and lend lots of money to people we know in advance cannot possibly re-pay it...and pass the burden onto the gov't (i.e. all the other people who are re-paying their own loans). The banking/mortgage collapse is not complicated it is welfare write large.
4. IS THE WORST OF ECONOMIC TIMES BEHIND US OR YET TO COME? As we are evidently unwilling to apply standards that are strictly Fiscal - as opposed to Politically Correct, "Humanitarian" - i.e. fantastic), so long as we pretend, and actually practice as policy, that "everybody" "deserves" (X) - e.g. big car(s), a bigger house than they can possibly afford, etc. - we are yet to have even a Taste of how devastating this could be.
(Other than that, I am keenly optimistic!)
Respectfully submitted this 2nd day April, 2008 A.D.
Jay Severin
Sunday, March 30, 2008
WHY HILLARY WON'T QUIT (YET)
B&B:
Why Hillary Won't Quit Yet starts with What Hillary Knows.
Hillary Knows: It is Sunday morning, March 30, and on all the network talk shows the Democrat Drumbeat for Hillary to Quit grows - as we predicted last week - bigger, louder and broader.
Hillary Kknows: this very public anti-Clinton trickle is poised to become a wave, the wave a Tsunami. The Democrats recognize their dream (a woman and an African-American) is fast becoming a nightmare, with the voters of both candidates increasingly bitter and alienated against the other. Several more weeks of this - not to mention the prospect of a wild, nasty, implosion of a national convention - and we can save time and money by simply coronating John McCain right now.
Hillary Knows: that Democrats are, therefore, in a panic to get The Deal cut NOW.
The Deal consists of either combining Obama + Clinton on one ticket, Or pushing Hilary overboard. They really don't much care which...just one or the other, NOW.
Hillary Knows: they have to come to her to cut The Deal. And unless she agrees, she stays in this campaign, burns down the Democrat Party, bringing Obama down with her.
And that is why Hillary waits, waits, waits - for maximun leverage, to cut the Best Deal.
Hillary's Best Deal consists of these elements, in ascending order of priority: (1) saves face (2) bestows enormous, continuing political power on her...which serves her ultimate goal, unchanged (3) the Presidency...in 2012.
And why not? John McCain is older right now than Mrs. Clinton will be if - sorry, When - she runs in 2012...Obama could lose, immediately establishing Clinton as the next Democrat candidate favorite...McCain might serve a single term (could happen), and she gets to run 2012...Obama wins, but has a weak first term and she - a la Ted Kennedy, 1980 - launches a primary challenge against a sitting President of her own party. (She wouldn't dare? Are you forgetting who we're talking about here?). So the scenario exists fully, at least in the mind of Clinton(s).
That means The Deal must include a place on the ticket, OR the Democrat Senate leadership, OR a guaranteed, unopposed candidate ststus from her party in 4 years.
Watch: in a few days or weeks, Clinton surrogates - chiefly Impeached-Bill - will start dropping hints that "we always planned on the contingency of running again in 2012"..."you always don't win the first time".."I think she'll be even a stronger candidate the 2nd time around"...
IN ANY CASE: Hillary stays in to drive up the cost of The Deal. The greater the threat she can hold over her party, the better The Deal she will get.
When Clinton(s) believe she is at her moment of maximum leverage (i.e. threat to destroy Obama, his chances, her party), she will cut The Deal.
And not before.
Thus, in effect, the Clinton 2012 campaign begins today.
Remember from whom you first heard this, ok?
Excelsior!
JTS
Why Hillary Won't Quit Yet starts with What Hillary Knows.
Hillary Knows: It is Sunday morning, March 30, and on all the network talk shows the Democrat Drumbeat for Hillary to Quit grows - as we predicted last week - bigger, louder and broader.
Hillary Kknows: this very public anti-Clinton trickle is poised to become a wave, the wave a Tsunami. The Democrats recognize their dream (a woman and an African-American) is fast becoming a nightmare, with the voters of both candidates increasingly bitter and alienated against the other. Several more weeks of this - not to mention the prospect of a wild, nasty, implosion of a national convention - and we can save time and money by simply coronating John McCain right now.
Hillary Knows: that Democrats are, therefore, in a panic to get The Deal cut NOW.
The Deal consists of either combining Obama + Clinton on one ticket, Or pushing Hilary overboard. They really don't much care which...just one or the other, NOW.
Hillary Knows: they have to come to her to cut The Deal. And unless she agrees, she stays in this campaign, burns down the Democrat Party, bringing Obama down with her.
And that is why Hillary waits, waits, waits - for maximun leverage, to cut the Best Deal.
Hillary's Best Deal consists of these elements, in ascending order of priority: (1) saves face (2) bestows enormous, continuing political power on her...which serves her ultimate goal, unchanged (3) the Presidency...in 2012.
And why not? John McCain is older right now than Mrs. Clinton will be if - sorry, When - she runs in 2012...Obama could lose, immediately establishing Clinton as the next Democrat candidate favorite...McCain might serve a single term (could happen), and she gets to run 2012...Obama wins, but has a weak first term and she - a la Ted Kennedy, 1980 - launches a primary challenge against a sitting President of her own party. (She wouldn't dare? Are you forgetting who we're talking about here?). So the scenario exists fully, at least in the mind of Clinton(s).
That means The Deal must include a place on the ticket, OR the Democrat Senate leadership, OR a guaranteed, unopposed candidate ststus from her party in 4 years.
Watch: in a few days or weeks, Clinton surrogates - chiefly Impeached-Bill - will start dropping hints that "we always planned on the contingency of running again in 2012"..."you always don't win the first time".."I think she'll be even a stronger candidate the 2nd time around"...
IN ANY CASE: Hillary stays in to drive up the cost of The Deal. The greater the threat she can hold over her party, the better The Deal she will get.
When Clinton(s) believe she is at her moment of maximum leverage (i.e. threat to destroy Obama, his chances, her party), she will cut The Deal.
And not before.
Thus, in effect, the Clinton 2012 campaign begins today.
Remember from whom you first heard this, ok?
Excelsior!
JTS
Sunday, March 23, 2008
FORGIVE MY ABSENCE. I AM RETURNED.
B&B:
Please forgive my recent absence from this space.
I was, as perhaps you know, off to my beloved Aspen for circa 10 days to frost-clean my brain, then getting caught-up this past week with material and preparations, etc. our radio show.
In case you cared, I am back and Blogging regularly.
Please join me here and on the air 3-7p weekdays.
Delighted to be back, B&B.
JS, Sunday a.m.
Please forgive my recent absence from this space.
I was, as perhaps you know, off to my beloved Aspen for circa 10 days to frost-clean my brain, then getting caught-up this past week with material and preparations, etc. our radio show.
In case you cared, I am back and Blogging regularly.
Please join me here and on the air 3-7p weekdays.
Delighted to be back, B&B.
JS, Sunday a.m.
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