Earlier this week after watching Hillary vilify the President of the United States while speaking in front of a podium covered by a placard reading “Solutions for America,” I wondered if that placard represented the campaign she wanted to have run. Instead of being on the warpath attacking, she attend forums offering solutions.
It seems (to me at least) she had planned on emerging as the Democratic frontrunner with a clear and unimpeded path to the nomination by SuperDuperTuesday at which point, she’d run the kind of campaign John McCain is now running, holding townhall meetings across the country. But, she would begin each of these meetings offering specific policy proposals, her “solutions,” perhaps even introducing bills in the Senate to enact those proposals into law.
These meetings would serve to help her overcome her high negatives, showing that instead of being a shrill partisan, eager to attack her adversaries, she was instead a thoughtful legislator with ideas to improve America.
Given how poll-driven the Clinton campaigns have been, her team must be aware that her negatives have long hovered in the mid to high 40s. Knowing how politically damaging such numbers can be, they must have spent a great deal of time developing strategies to reduce them.
My theory is that the “Solutions for America” campaign is one such strategy.
But, Obama’s victories in February dashed the plans they had so carefully laid last fall when they assumed a Clinton “coronation” in the Democratic primaries and cauci.
Instead of running as the leader above the fray, announcing her agenda in anticipation of her election, Hillary has been forced to get into the down-and-dirty of politics, attacking her opponent and engaging in tactics which have defined her husband’s political career.
As a result, instead of reducing her negatives, the campaign for the Democratic nomination has solidified them. Indeed, it seems to have increased them in some circles as shown in this piece by a man who only last month was “elected a Clinton delegate in the neighborhood-level caucuses” in Washington State.
It seems the reality of the 2008 election has foiled yet another Clinton plan.
Ah, the downfall. How enjoyable to watch. And to think, it all started with a question involving Elliot Spitzer, yet another man who cheated on his wife. She needs to chose the men she hangs with more wisely.
It seems to me that, as far as liberals are concerned, all one has to do is use bumper sticker slogans like "solutions", "hope" and of course "change" without EVER offering any and the lemmings will follow them right over the cliff. That is if they don’t faint first.
My question remains, if Hillary’s ideas a so great, why weren’t the dictated her first time ’round? If her ideas tanked then, what in God’s name makes her think they’ll work now?
What do you call it when you keep doing the same shit over and over expecting different results?
Reality always "forces" the evil to reveal their true nature.
It’s not their fault, mind you. It’s the fault of events, of other people, of the cruel world that "forced" them, etc.
P.S. Charles Pluckhahn’s link was fun. Of course, like most left-liberals, even in the act of seeing through the Clintons he still manages to be a total idiot anyway:
Ummm, brnng brrrng. Clue on line 2.
(1) It was a Democrat you saw mowing down those black people with those water hoses in Alabama, Charles.
(2) Dukakis was white. Bush 41’s campaign never launched any racial appeal against Dukakis. And his son, George W. Bush, has had 2 black Secretary of States in a row. (First President to have any.)
(3) Republicans freed the slaves. While Democrats fought – hard – for slavery.
(4) Republicans put the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments into the Constitution. (Know what that is?) Democrats answered with Jim Crow.
(5) To this day in the 21st century, Democrats still think in racial categories, and want to impose racial quota systems on America.
In other words: That Democrats are the source of racial appeals in American politics today, ought to come as a surprise to absolutely no one.
Stay the course…
#4
Not to mention Ferraro merely stated the obvious. It was the Orgasmaniacs who made that a race issue.
Forgot to mention:
That little bit about his heroes are black ranks right up there with the old "I can’t be a racist! I have black friends" dodge.
Can I mention what a weak candidate Obama is? I mean really after one 3am ad and this business about his family preacher, can this have been a weaker candidate? He’s falling like a house of cards. No wonder the Clintonistas have been shaking their heads for the better part of 3 months. How did we go 6 months of a Presidential campaign and only now is the MSM pulling the dark shades back from Baracks associations?
Can I mention what a weak candidate Obama is?
Why you obviously racist bastard! ;-P