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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:43 PM
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It's abundantly clear now. Hillary is after 2012. And the only way to get there is to ensure
a McCain win in 2008.


She'd rather have the Repukes run things for another 4 years than miss her chance in '12.


The solution: Superdelegate Bomb. Tomorrow. BLOW.HER.CAMPAIGN.OUT.OF.THE.WATER.


She's in destructive mode now. Nothing good can come of what she is doing.

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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:44 PM
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1. She is after VP OR a 3rd Party run.
The HillocRAT Party.
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InAbLuEsTaTe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:10 PM
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24. Hillary and Ferraro - that's the ticket.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:06 PM
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38. That defeat might rival Mondale's
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:12 PM
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27. If she doesn't get the nom or veep spot
yeah I think she could go the Lieberman route and run on a third party, seriously. x( :puke:
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:12 PM
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29. What else could her motivation, at this point be?
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:04 PM
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37. OT: Have any of you ever read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"???
Edited on Tue May-20-08 09:06 PM by Radio_Lady
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:50 PM
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41. I've never read the book but
I've seen the movie with Danny Kaye, you make an interesting comparison.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 11:12 PM
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45. Thanks. One of my favorite books when I was a child.
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:44 PM
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2. The problem is that so many of her supporters seem to agree with this tactic, only 33% will vote for
Obama in GE.. according to Kentucky exit polls
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:52 PM
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10. Let's take another look at that number come October after they've
all had a chance to watch Obama AND McCaine in action!
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pokercat999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:07 PM
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21. That's in KY and maybe WV. Does ANYONE expect
Obama to take all 50 states?
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:09 PM
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23. I agree, but the problem is that the 2012 strategy is becoming acceptable to some of them
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:10 PM
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25. 33% of the Confederate vote? I'll take it. nt
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:46 PM
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3. Why not save our country so there is one, and then run in 8? n/t
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:49 PM
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6. she may be to old by then. Bill says her memory is already slipping at age 60
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:02 PM
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36. Clinton's mother was in Iowa campaigning for her daughter.
She won't be too old.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:48 PM
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4. I'm starting to believe she has mental problems.
The absurdity of her reasoning is astounding.
I have no explanation.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:06 PM
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19. She's putting out a line she knows her audience will like
It's really depressing to see someone intelligent selling this sort of BS. 8 years of this kind of thing is quite long enough.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:49 PM
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5. The ONLY THING that will insure a george w. mccain win is an obama nomination.
Wake up PEOPLE before it is TOO LATE!! HRC is our BEST and ONLY ELECTABLE candidate!!
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:50 PM
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7. Nope,..... HRC has the highest negatives of any candidate ever to run for president, UNELECTABLE
always has been, always will be
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:55 PM
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13. Took the words out of my mouth.
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Lerrad Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:57 PM
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14. The Republican party will .....
.... dig up so much old dirt on Hillary that she won't stand a prayer, not to mention her childish tall tails like snipper fire.
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left is right Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:21 PM
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39. I am so tired of the Only Electable Candidate argument
We were sold that bill of goods with Kerry and looked what happened. How about just this one time we vote for the best possible candidate? That won't be HRC--she is essentially no different than any other neocon, except that she looks good in pink. I wanted to love her but she has disappointed me too many times.
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progdog Donating Member (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:51 PM
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8. After this most recent display
of denial, lies and manipulation I don't know how any one could trust HRC to run the government in any way that isn't self serving. That's if she was ever to be elected, now or in the future. Sorry.
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InAbLuEsTaTe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:15 PM
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31. Hell, she can't run a competent campaign. How can she run an entire country?
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:51 PM
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9. Fat chance
10% of the people who voted for her this year will be dead in 2012 based on demographics.
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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:53 PM
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12. Yep - exactly right. It's a pretty shabby way to treat her Party, but she doesn't care. n/t.
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WA98296 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:58 PM
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15. No chance of either 2012 or VP. She's made her own bed.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:59 PM
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16. I've known this for a long time.
Hillary cares only about hillary. she is out to ensure a McCain victory in the GE. She is a despicable, dishonest, back stabbing, self centered sociopath.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:57 PM
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34. Me too. SInce hearing things voting activists said in 2004
As a voting rights activist I could not support Senator Clinton because it was obvious
That she knew all about the issues of the electronic voting machinery and choose not to speak out.

And that she was part and parcel of the reason that Kerry was not encouraged to fight for Ohio.

When people who don't want to understand how crucially fundamental that aspect of her character happens to be, that she would let our country deal with another four L-O-N-G years of George Bush rather than having of Kerry take office in 2004 and deprive her of the chance to run in 2008, I can only feel that such supporters really haven't thought about the issue of the voting machinery carefully, or are naive about Hillary, or BOTH.

I can't defend the name calling of supporters here at DU. But I certainly understand how frustrating it has been to see people blindly follow Senator Clinton.

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greguganus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:00 PM
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17. Yeah, like people will forget 2008 in 4 years. Fuck her. n/t
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AZSlacker Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:03 PM
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18. I have thought about it, and I don't think 2012 is on the table for them
That is why they are fighting so hard in this primary. They had every conceivable advantage in this election, and they still weren't able to pull off a victory. How the hell are the Clintons going to convince big donors to back her again in 2012, when all of those advantages will be gone? I think that they're going "all in" now because they realize that the circumstances that were so favorable to her in this season, won't ever be there again.
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Stagecoach Donating Member (468 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:11 PM
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26. Here's what she'd be able to do
In 2012, her angle would be, "We already tried Obama vs. McCain; that didn't work.....we don't want to make that same mistake again." Besides Obama (if he loses this year), I'm not sure who else in the Democratic Party could be considered a contender.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 11:19 PM
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47. No way in 2012, HRC and Bill will NOT EVER regain the respect of the AA community and
we all know that the democratic party can NOT win without them. :nuke:
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:07 PM
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20. I'm sick and tired of pundits claiming that she's gentler now. I read what she said tonight and
her surrogates claiming sexism as of late as a direct ploy to cripple and deligitimize Obama.
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last1standing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:09 PM
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22. She is becoming a pariah.
n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:12 PM
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28. If that happens, we better have a better congress than the last one
or I'm leaving a country this irreversibly fucked up.
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:14 PM
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30. This will all be over soon
It has absolutely nothing to do with 2012 and it never has. As soon as the primaries are over, she'll drop out, endorse Obama and we'll move on to the general election.
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:20 PM
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32. Senator Spoiler can forget all about 2012, she's anathema to the Democratic Party. -eom
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Vattel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:29 PM
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33. the 2012 plot again
this baseless charge is getting tiresome
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:58 PM
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35. I agree. Let's go full Truman Doctrine. Drop that fucking bomb.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:25 PM
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40. Obama running insures a McCain win in 2008.
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DuaneBidoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:56 PM
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42. three months ago I would have never imagined agreeing to that, but now? Easy.
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:01 PM
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43. The next POTUS, no matter who it is, will have big problems to deal
with over the next four years. Big, unprecedented problems inherited from Bush and GOP. Tough job. Even if Obama elected 2009, would she be up for running against him for 2012 dem nomination?

If McCain is pres in 2009-2012 and struggling under burden of major issues, she would have no problem running in 2012.

If Obama is pres in 2009-2012 and struggling under burden of major issues, she could say "I told you so in 2008!" and run
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:04 PM
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44. I agree, if by "abundantly clear" you mean "I just pulled this shit out my ass"
Clinton is not running for 2012. She's running for 2008 and keeping her options open. Her character has always been consistant. She is far too competitive to just write off another presidential election. She might think she's more fit to lead than Obama, but you claiming she's sabotage the Democrats to get there reveals more about your psychological projections than objective political realities.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 11:15 PM
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46. What HRC doesn't realize that if she continues her reputation will be destroyed and future
elections will leave her without her seat in "even the Senate." Hell, her and Bill are abso-fucking-lutely trashing their political reputations much MORE than any GOP mean spirited attack did in the past. They're CRAZY with obsession for what they think is THEIRS - the WH. Get the hook superdelegates?!? :crazy:
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