November 8, 2007 — WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s once-commanding lead in New Hampshire has been slashed – a sign that the simmering driver’s-license controversy may have bled into the critical first-primary state, a new poll shows.
Clinton leads top Democratic rival Barack Obama by only 10 percentage points – 34 to 24 – in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, her smallest edge of the season. John Edwards comes in third, at 15 percent.
A month ago, Clinton had a 23-point lead in the same survey.
In recent postings and comments I’ve written that Hillary Clinton seems to be resiliently Teflon-like. I’m actually beginning to re-think that. A bit.
Certainly, she has the most robotic-like campaign machine extant. It is the greatest juggernaut the Demorats possess. She also has the backing of the man who gained the greatest Presidential traction imagineable, and for whom Political Teflon was named, her husband: William Jefferson Clinton.
And yet, despite all that, despite the years of cleaning, prepping, vetting, strategery, avoidance, innuendo, James Carville, behavior, insinuation, oppression, power assumed and applied, Hillary still managed to hit a Major Road Bump during the recent Demorat debate.
Because one guy, MSNBC’s Tim Russert, had the temerity to ask her an actual question, her entire world turned to shit.
Think about that for a moment, if you will. Essentially one question turned her “sure thing” into an “I’m not quite sure” thing. How is that humanly possible?
Russert actually pressed her on an answer. Russert is certainly no shrinking violet or apologist for the GOP. And yet Russert was termed a “Hitler” for even asking the question, for even pressing Clinton on the question.
And therein lies the fault: the rosy bed laid before HC for years is indeed not so rosy, and she revealed CLEARLY the massive chink in her armor:
She can’t take it. She can’t take the heat. Even a little heat. Because her life has been comparitively so rosy up to this point, so controlled, so forced, so protected. So plotted. So planned. She cannot stand even the most minute deviation. She’s been thrown bones for so damned long.
This was essentially a softball question. It involved her own state. Her own governor. Laws involving situations under which she should be cognizant.
So let’s step back a bit.
She can’t handle that question. Her supporters label Russert, the Left-leaning questioner, a Hitler. She says she was “off” that day, having answered 5,000 questions.
Folks, if she can’t field a logical softball, how can she even remotely expect to handle the fluid and ever-changing national and global landscape? Involving people who not only don’t adore her, but would care to see her, as a representative of the United States, dead?
Listen to me, GOP: Hillary Clinton positively CHOKED on a softball question!
You should KNOW what to do!
At a time when my country had reached the final limits of its strengths, the time when France was exhausted, had spent its strength in the most absurd and bloodiest of wars, France was able to count upon the courage of american soldiers,” he said.
“I have come to say to you on behalf of the French people that never, never will we forget that,” he said.
Sarkozy loves America. Heaven forbid our DEM (Defeatit Elitist Media) should cover Sarkozy’s words. Because they of course won’t. And Hillary does not love America. Sarkozy said this week:
From the very beginning, the American Dream meant proving, to all men and woman throughout the world was not a Utopia, but quite the reverse, but the most likely to improve the fate of everyone. You built the greatest nation in the world. She said: come and the greatest limits will be your boldness, your greatness and your talents. That is what constitutes the moral value of America.
Hillary demanded, at the Beacon Theatre for her 60th birthday party recently, more government, more programs. More. More. Look and listen to the difference between those who live here, and those who don’t. Why should we rely on the President of France for affirmation of our Greatness??
Here’s a guy who comes here from France (who is Hungarian and knows all about suppression) and acknowledges that our country is the best. And he is afforded little or no press coverage. Did you read his speech? “Long live the United States of America, Long Live France, Love live United States and French partnership.”
BZ
P.S.
But of course, GOP, you don’t read me and you don’t have the balls to plot an actual strategy against Hillary. Because you’re too busy wondering what God or Jesus would do in that political situation. Because you’re turning the other cheek. Because you’re busy courting so-called Evangelicals. You know — those people first accused of conducting private affairs turned public, those people with Love Children, those loons like Pat Robertson. Like Jim Bakker. Like Ted Haggard. Like Paul Crouch. Like Jimmy Swaggart.
Hey GOP. How about growing some actual balls? How about Man’ing Up? How about cutting to the chase and calling things as they actually exist? How about getting over this “forgiving” thing and going for the fucking jugular?
The Demorats are spitting in the face of America, in the face of decency, in the face of common sense, in the face of logic, in the face of American sovereignty, and I’M FUCKING TIRED OF IT.
I’M TIRED OF THOSE WHO HATE AMERICA.
And I’m tired of those faggot PseudoCons who REFUSE TO STAND UP FOR THIS COUNTRY under the guise of either POLITICS or RELIGION, under the attempt of “getting along” to “go along.” This is NOT the time for COMPROMISE.
This, more than any other time, is the time for CLARITY, for DRAWING LINES in the sand.
Because you’re either WITH my country or you’re AGAINST my country.
I told you she’s not a sure thing.
Yes you did.
BZ
I really believe that people are going to enter this race on both sides that will change what we see today for the better.
These tickets we have now can’t possibly be the best America has to offer.
But there you’re wrong. The good people, the ones who could actually do something more than care about lining their pockets or pulling power — those people are afraid. They’re afraid of the constant hounding, the pressure, the overkill, the purposeful LACK of clarity, the obfuscation, the lies, the deceit. They don’t run their lives like that, so they couldn’t run a campaign machine like that. They want nothing to do with falseness of campaigning, having to sign their lives away to make deals with the Devil. They are good people, refusing to be dragged into the horrific mire that is politics. That was no slam on Evangelicals, BTW, it was frustration at courting them for political purposes only, for show, not particularly caring about them, and then NOT having the guts to ATTACK the Demorats BACK with core Conservative beliefs.
BZ
If what you say is true than we as a country are doomed to failure.
If we are to be lead by corrupt, dishonest people than this country will become corrupt and dishonest and that will be the end.
I have always said that if we fail and fall, it will be from within.
We as American have to refuse these corrupt and dishonest candidates that only look out for themselves, we have to let them know that they’re not welcomed here.
There’s not a candidate in this race right now, on either side that deserves to be President of the United States, not one.
If we stand by and let one of these people get into office than we deserve what we get. This is our country, not theirs.
For years I told people that HRC was seen as a ‘carpetbagger’ in NY State and the only reason she is in the Senate is that the Republican party there is a *joke*. A weak and poor one, at that.
HRC is no lock on the nomination and has a gaping hole where the North East is concerned: she plays to the Left pretty well, but not the average folks outside the city based talking circles. There is a *lot* of non-city in the North East, from Pennyslvania to Maine… the demographics between downstate and upstate NY tell that tale.
HRC has hard problems in her negatives which limit her ability to get a *plurality* not to speak of a majority. WJC has the same problem and was blessed by third party runs to keep him in office based on a plurality election.
Unfortunately there are no Nationalists running on the D or R side – no one who stands up for the Nation as a Nation *first* and foremost. It is too bad the ‘Law and Order’ Republicans got stuck on TV or put behind bars… actually enforcing laws without regard to ideology would be a winner. And the ‘small government’ conservatives got hardened arteries at the pork fest they brought in.
So, the Democrats only stand for Transnationalist ‘be nice to everyone and give up’ views, and the Republicans hold their plate out for the extra servings, just not so much sauce as the Democrats, and really white collar crime is so much better than other sorts so lets have milder penalties…. whats a few hundred million for lobbyists between ‘friends’? A mere nothing.
So I can vote for those trying to liquidate the Nation with having my checkbook vacuumed out or those looking to do the same for their friends in Big Business and Big Agriculture and Big Lobbying and just plain, old nepotism.
There is a *choice* here?
This is a ‘horse race’ to see how many people can be turned off by this election… and get a minority (a true minority) in power. Just like in the Weimar Republic 1932-33… remember the era of Nazis and Commies using prussic acid to assassinate each other, when it wasn’t just shootings and stabbings? That was an outgrowth of disenfranchisement and marginalization to radicalism there. Here I expect it to be treated with a *yawn* and ‘as long as it doesn’t bother me its ok’ sort of deal… until they take *you* away for violating some minor law put in place to make you behave ‘just right’.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I don’t want a ‘white knight’… don’t trust the buggers, always gots an agenda to them they won’t tell you about. No, just a good, old fasioned Nationalist.
The Nation *first* and screw the petty ideologies, figure it out for yourself sort of person. You do not form that from the *top* – political changes start at the State and Congressional level and I see damned few folks out there that realize this. We idolize the President way too much and now put our Nation at peril due to that. I will write-in for Cthulhu if worse comes to worse… at least I *know* the kind of evil I am getting.
The Ds and Rs?
Not a Nationalist to be seen. Some ‘big tent’ for special interests on both sides and the common folks of the Nation? Just give them hand-outs and ‘health care’ and any other promise that will bankrupt our bank accounts and our spirits.
Thanks but no thanks.
Promise breakers and oath breakers on both sides of this, including *all* the Presidential contenders. If we must go to hell, can we at least get some experienced leadership for there? Anything but that formless, oozing mass of power grabbing going by the name of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
ABC – Anyone But Clinton.
Blo said: “Because one guy, MSNBC’s Tim Russert, had the temerity to ask her an actual question, her entire world turned to shit.”
I chuckled with that.. Great line!
Now, could you imagine the Clinton Crime family being challenged with questions like Russert’s for many years prior to this?
Hillary, man-pants, Clinton wouldn’t be a household name.
Ranando: yes, when we fall it will be from within as most empires find themselves corroding. Not only from the threats posed by those who would intentionally harm us from within, such as Islamists, but from within by Marxists, the totalitarian and egalitarianists, the demography of illegal invaders and, quite frankly, the Demorat party. And our GOP is NOT HELPING.
AJ: excellent summary, and mine as well: ANYONE BUT CLINTON.
Rivka: thanks; I enjoyed writing it, actually.
BZ
The 3 greatest political threats faced by the USA today:
1. Hillary
2. Obama
3. Giuliani
All 3 are birds of a feather and there’s not a dimes worth of difference in ANY of em…
TF: ooooooo-boy, do I disagree with that one. I’ll take Giuliani any day over the other two Marxists.
BZ
You mentioned bed, laid, and Hilary all in the same sentence Thanks for that image. 🙂 Seriously though, the question that stumped Hillary wasn’t even a tough question. It was a question she should have been able to answer easily. The problem is she was trying to walk the fence between her radical let followers and the other 77% of Americans and she couldn’t do it. In doins so she exposed herself to both sides and hopefully she will pay for it.
As far as the Republicans go, I think that they will come after her with guns blazing in the general election. Perhaps they are secretly hoping she wins the Democrat nomination because they have so much ammo ready to use against her.
I can hope anyways.