She lives. Having won two major states, Ohio and Texas, she still has close to half of the delegates, and has regained some of that momentum folks like to talk so much about. The Democratic case for her going on to win the nomination is made, quite convincingly, at least to me, by Harold Ickes and Mark Penn today at RealClearPolitics.
Some liberals, for instance Marty Peretz at the New Republic, seem to be tired of the whole Billary shtick. As in, with Hillary Clinton, you also must take Bill Clinton. To which I say, “So? Where’s the bad news?”
The Clintons are a team. You get one, you get both. And that’s good news for Republicans like me: he’d be a steadying influence on Hillary’s more leftish notions.
Stated differently, he’d be a ballast towards the center. Bill is the reason I voted for Hillary in the Virginia primary. Not because I think she will be easier to beat than Obama. Rather, for damage control, hedging against a more-likely-than-not Democratic win in November.
Obama is far too liberal, and, contra his rhetoric, has not worked across party lines on anything of importance. He will unite us, but only if we all go along with his leftist agenda.
The best one may say about Obama is that he is, indeed, a fresh face. But he is untested, in politics as well as world affairs, having only won a single U.S. Senate race in 2004 against a very weak opponent. His wobbling on NAFTA is but the tip of the iceberg. Wait until he starts out his administration with a “surrender summit” with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This Republican says, if a Democrat must win, let it not be Obama. I trust the Clintons’ instincts and experience far more than Obama’s.
I woke up this morning to see a fellow Highbrid Nation writer reporting that Hillary has won the Ohio and Texas primaries and how this is getting bad. And like him I feel like this battle between Obama and Hillary has went on too long and now they are in danger of hurting the party by allowing McCain to take shots at them while they are dealing with each other. Howard Dean should step in and say “Look, Obama is going to be the canidate and Hillary you can be his running mate if you choose”…I know I know that would never happen but a guy can dream right?
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Mike Belgrove, yes, you can dream. But the normal name for that sort of thing was “kingmaker” and it was usually practiced in smoke-filled rooms.
If I were a Democrat, about the last thing I’d want is Screamin’ Howie to put his fist in the mix. As a Republican, I’d welcome it…so tasty and shiny for us; just to bask in the glow of the hypocrisy…
The Hillary-Obama tussle is going to go on until the bitter end. Hillary almost certainly can’t win by the sheer math of delegates and popular votes (although she can come very close). But that doesn’t mean she can’t win.
What will be telling is what dirt, if any, comes out between now and the convention. If Obama can stay clean in the public eye, and he’s ahead, chances are the superdelegates will throw it to him after the Pennsylvania primary (April 22).
If they’re essentially tied, look for a brokered convention, with a Hillary-Obama ticket. In that order.
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