Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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The Liberal Beltway's Bottom Line
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
8:32 AM
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Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne has perfect pitch of the Democratic establishment inside D.C.'s permanent party machine. His take on today's contests:
My view is that Obama's backers have to be careful not to look like they are escorting Clinton out the door prematurely, but that Clinton has to be realistic about her chances and the party's needs. If she wins the popular vote in both Texas and Ohio, she has a decent case for staying in. If she loses one, the race is over and my hunch is that she will act accordingly.
Consider that a nudge, nudge, wink, wink to Team Hillary.
UPDATE: The Post's Dan Baltz agrees:
The one certain way to end the race is for Barack Obama to win both Texas and Ohio -- no small undertaking. That would erase any doubts that may exist about his ability to take big states or to energize a working-class base in a crucial general-election state. It would create enormous pressure on Hillary Rodham Clinton to bow out.
Even an Obama victory in one of today's two big states is likely to result in the race ending, although perhaps not immediately. Former president Bill Clinton established that benchmark recently and though his wife's advisers have tried to back away from it, many Democrats have adopted it as the measure by which they judge today's results.
"WJC's [William Jefferson Clinton's] comments were extremely harmful in managing expectations," noted one Democratic strategist.
So, if HRC staggers BO today, the GOP will be popping corks all night long as the inevitability of a long, drawn out and increasingly bitter fight becomes obvious.
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The more blood spilt in the Dem primaries, the better it is for the entire USA not just the GOP or ole John. The more , finally, the media investigates the Hildabeast and the Messiah, the better it is for the American people. Finally, they might see that both are empty suits and that their policies are just McGovern warmed over. Both are socialist pacifists, period. Their domestic policies and Court appointments alone would throw this nation into a status of leftist Europe. That the dependents in this nation want these two, should alert all producers and workers that capitalism and republican democracy would suffer under these two Keynesian-secularists. And please, no more about the 'spirtuality' of these two resembling evangelicals and moderate Catholics. They are nothing of the sort as recent statements have finally shown. And how ironic that liberal Jews now finally see how Obama is not a friend of Israel and neither is the Hildabeast. The Middle East would be abandoned to the Islamofascists and they would be holding seances with the thug of Iran!! |
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So, are we to have four years Hillary's voice or four years of seeing BO in the headline? |
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I've often thought of the liberal beltway media as an extension of the democrat party. And sometimes when you read their articles they read like memos out of a DNC strategy session. The whole tone and context is similar to what a campaign strategist would write. And sometimes it does map out the democrats next move. |
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the contest continuing--and, probably, an increasing bitterness and personal punches--from, say, a Hillary win in Ohio...Then, I can feel a tear welling up in my eye with concern for their health. Yep, I'm ALL about concern for them..Naw,
sorry, it was just a speck of dust.
Anyone catch Dan Abrams having spit-throwing fits last night on PMS-NBC about the EeeeeeekK "Immorality" of Texas Repubs crossing over and voting for Lady MacClinton to prolong the bloooood sport of Democrat Party Infighting?! Though the pantywaist toad was gonna come unhinged. WONDERFUL!!!!! |
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