February 19, 2008
Hillary Costing Herself Votes (Dick Morris)
The more the Clinton campaign talks about using superdelegates to override the will of the people and using the credentials fight over Michigan and Florida to nullify Obama's victories, the more Hillary is creating those very victories by showing how old-line, arrogant and authoritarian she and her campaign really are.
The image the campaign is presenting to the electorate is uniformly negative. Hillary is threatening to cast aside the will of the voters and to coast to victory sponsored by the entitled establishment of the party. This is a recipe for losing so many primaries and so many caucuses that she can't win no matter how many strings she pulls.
That is precisely the situation in which Sen. Clinton finds herself. By trumpeting her survival strategy to anyone who will listen, she nullifies the chances she had to survive the primaries and caucuses with a lead.
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Hillary, is in effect, running against herself. The one campaign she can't win.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — February 19, 2008 @ 10:08 am
There is a serious double standard here because Obama is enjoying the support of numerous super delegates in districts where he was trounced by Hillary.
Estute voters know of this double standard, and we will cast our vote for Hillary, not giving a crap about her right to rely on super delegates.
Dick, you really are a putz. You do not use exculpatory reporting/pundantry that shows the other side is leaning on these super delegates just as hard.
Dick, google the Super Delegate Transparency Project, and look at California and MAss. Hillary won overwhelmingly in those two states, and if you remember Dick, you called the nomination for her the day after Super Tuesday.
You should call out Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and the numerous super delegates who are voting independently for OBAMA, against the popular vote in their states and ditricts.
You need to right this stuff without a hangover and a previous night of pre-paid companionship.
You waffle on your predictions, and your conclusions about how the votes are going lack any emperical evidence.
You are a moody guesser, and you never know which way the wind will blow, you barely keeping up with the pack at the Hill. Their artticle are much more informative and more vetted in thier conclusuions.
You need to follow the example of your collegues, Mr. Morris.
Comment by daniel — February 19, 2008 @ 11:34 am
I cannot stand Hillary or Bill or Chelsea or Mark Penn or Lanny Davis or Wolfson or Solis or Maggie Williams or any of the superdelegates that are supporting Hillary.
They all come off as power hungary, unethical, evil,lying, PUKES!
Comment by Stephanie from Ohio — February 24, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Hillary in Ohio the other day at an economic roundtable in Parma, Ohio criticized hedge funds and their workers by saying they don't do real work, that is those who work the night shift and other blue collar jobs in Ohio that do the true/real work.
She just dissed her own daughter who works for a hedge fund company in New York.
The HYPOCRISY!
Comment by Stephanie from Ohio — February 24, 2008 @ 5:39 pm