Letters to the Editor
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re: In fact, I've seen several reports that the DNC has already talked to Gore at a meeting on April 15th to develop a so-called "Denver Plan" that will have Gore as the presidential nominee
That's probably their only chance of winning in the fall, but I don't even entertain the notion that it will happen.
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The Race Goes On
"In truth, the premature demand that Clinton hoist the white flag runs against both political history (every trailing candidate in her situation has taken the fight to the convention) and the competitive spirit."
I am a solid Clinton supporter. I have donated the maximum amount; I have blogged; I have had letters published in the New York Times; I have cajoled my friends to donate; I spent the last three weekends canvassing in Pennsylvania, having driven down from upstate New York.
I support Senator Clinton because I truly do believe that she is the best person for the job facing us. I have great respect for Senator Obama, and see him as an interesting candidate for the future.
All of that being said, I cannot begin to express my disappointment last night. While watching Senator Clinton cruise to victory, the pundits continued to call for her to consider dropping out of the race; the NYTimes boxed her around the ears for her negativity (while Senator "Who? Me?" Obama managed to barely get a slap on the wrist, once again, even though it is his campaign that continues to pull the race card). And, of course, today the question of viability continues to be the topic of conversation, even though the voters are almost evenly split. Don’t we know that it’s time to just quietly take our place in back of Senator Obama? How could we not know that he is the best and brightest person to ever walk the face of the earth (including, it would seem, across the water)?
This morning, I finally realized why this call for departure felt so familiar: once again, as supporters of Senator Clinton, we are being told that we should just sit down, shut up and take our place in the back of the room while the boys take care of business. After all, we should know by now that if we’re going to get screwed, we should just lay back and enjoy it.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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Check out the PA results
You are very much at odds with her core costituency in this state. You just are.
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See, Rico, just listen to HP, he knows the score
and if you buy that blarney, you're as big as loser as the Dems are sure to be with Obama in November. But speaking as a McCain supporter, I couldn't be happier than to watch your party follow HP's clueless lead.
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Hey salon . . .
Thank god I'm not paying for this crap. Now I never will.
Also, would you please make this an editor's choice? Pretty please.
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But OK, I'm game
You are a smart and affluent Hillary supporter. So tell me...
HOW DOES SHE WIN?
Just because my basketball team went 23-7 over the last 30 games did not chnage the fact that they finished 40-42. They did not get the #1 seed, they got the #7 seed.
That is all I want to know. How does she win the nomination? Without alienating the party's core voting block and thus making a November win impossible?
If she can get 63% from here on out it will be because something major happens, like Obama turns out to actually be Muslim or gets caught in the stall with Larry Craig. But you have to agree that a straight up win is unlikely. WSo what is the point?
Cytherea, maybe we should just only nominate white men - since they are the safe choice. Right? Because that seems to be what you believe. And we used to do better in the South before civil rights, so let's rescind that and get the Southern Dems back. And Dems won all the time before women had the right to vote, so let's roll that back. Maybe even bring back the property requirement.
Sound reasonable?
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@HP but for Cythera
You're scaring me HP. You sounded a little bit rational (but still incorrect) in responding to my last letter, but I'm sure you'll return to your old self real soon. In fact, I see you already have. I remind you that George W. Bush, a virtual imbecile with nothing positive in his resume', was victorious against fairly liberal intellectuals (one with military credentials and the other coming out of a successful administration)despite the Iraq fiasco, poor economy and dissension on the home-front. Obama probably can't but Hillary probably could! Life's a bitch!
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Let's deconstruct HP's logic, shall we?
"Actually, polls consistently show that Obama fares better against McCain."
April 22 Gallup poll: Obama vs. McCain, each 45%; McCain 46-Clinton 45. I guess that's what he's hanging his hat on.
"But let's be real - either Clinton or Obama will beat McCain in November (provided SD's do not tilt it own way or the other)."
From PA exit poll: "only 53% of Clinton supporters say they'd vote for Obama against McCain, while 69% of Obama backers would vote for her as the nominee."
"Here we have a guy [McCain] that stands for every issue that voters are against, and he has yet to be analyzed."
This is a guy who has been a Congressman or Senator since 1982 and a Presidential candidate in 2000. And HP thinks he "has yet to be analyzed." Also, given the MSM's love affair with McCain, good luck getting him analyzed the way you apparently want.
"The diry money, lobbyists, and scandals will come out as soon as we can move on. His scary-conservative record will be out there. He is not a marketable product, which is why the party that hates him - the GOP - decided to run him this year. And he is so old, I'm not sure he can keep up with the energy of Obama or Clinton."
Can you just HEAR the special pleading and the wishing-it-to-be-so? Dream a little dream....
"Pat Buchanan said it best, McCain's platform is 'the good jobs are gone, the illegals are staying, and you are going to have lots of wars.'"
Yes, but if he's running against Obama, his platform will be: "I am not the untested, doofy-looking, ultra-liberal, skinny, intellectual black guy standing over there. Take a good look at us and ask yourself, which one actually LOOKS like a President."