Will Hillary Ruin the 2010 Elections for Democrats?
First the press counts her out, then the voters in North Carolina and almost Indiana last night and now Georgetown's fashion set are rejecting Sen. Hillary Clinton, too. We've been following the vote at Ann Hand's Georgetown jewelry store and it appears in the picture above that purchases of the Hillary 2008 pin have flattened at 204, while those for Sen. Barack Obama have surged to 1,015 and also to 462 for Sen. John McCain. No wonder then that the talk of Washington today is not just when Clinton will bow out of the primary campaign but also how bad it will be for the party this fall and maybe even in 2010 if the election fight continues on.
Some party officials tell us that the damage could last well past Election Day. These officials, while not wanting to be seen encouraging Sen. Hillary Clinton to get out of the race to begin the healing, are starting to whisper that the electibility of the party down-ticket in House, Senate and local races could be substantially hurt for at least the next congressional election cycle if the Democrats can't show new unity and beat Sen. John McCain. "We should win, it's our year. We have to win," said a party leader on background. "But if this continues and somehow McCain wins, we won't just be facing a divided party but people will give up on us," added the leader. It's a concern that has been heard on Capitol Hill and among fundraisers, though they generally concede that there's nothing the party hierarchy can do about it until one of the two candidates eventually concedes defeat. For Hill Democratic aides, the worries now include sustaining their majority in the 2010 elections, if a Democratic president isn't elected. "We can't just run out of steam. People will hate us if we can't pull it together and win this time," said one top aide.
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I am still banking on Barack Obama exhibiting the leadership he claims about "change" of politics. This is done by HIM uniting the party and performing the "cat-herding" exercize of pointing the delegates and the country toward more worthy discussion points. He would "like", I'm sure, to just make the Clintons go away. He also "knows", I'm sure, that he can easily lose everything for all of us on racism alone. (If not, Harold Ford Jr. of Tenessee can explain it to him--and, in fact, has already started doing so.)
Barack will (my prediction) seek soon to invite Hillary for the VP job. The two can certainly win, and he can probably win wihout her IF AND ONLY IF he garners her supporters by treating her very very well. This could all take a few weeks yet, and I really don't know if she'll accept or not.. We'll see. And how he proceeds is a true test of his statesmanship.
Win-lose situation
Obviously, Hilary is not an advocate of the win-win strategy so often preached by right thinking beings. She is egoistic, conceited, selfish, big-headed, boastful and power crazy. She will resort to bad-mouthing others, supporting people who cheat on her, changing policies to suit her agenda and doing anything to achieve her aim. Everyone can see through her greedy ambitions since day one and she will listen to no one despite the obvious signs of doom. She is just not the kind of leader Americans want for a President. It's time to throw in the towel and exit gracefully rather than face the bitter truth where she will end up being bruised and battered with little dignity and pride left. This is the beginning of the end for her.
Extreme Democratic Elites
When the radical extreme leftists are influencing the Democratic Party elites, there is no way the average Democratic voter will vote for the Democratic nominee. There is a BIG tent in the Democratic Party, if it does not moderate it's extremism, then Reagan Democrats will cross-over in droves. Obama's extreme pro-abortion positions does not appeal to the average pro-life Democrat. Many in this camp will be tempted to vote in favor of the pro-life candidate.
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