"Clinton: It'd be 'terrible mistake' to pick McCain over ObamaStory Highlights

Clinton: "grave error" for her supporters not to vote for Obama, if nominated

Clinton trounced Obama in West Virginia on Tuesday

Despite being more than $20 million in the red, she vows to keep going

Talks of a joint ticket would be "premature," she says

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/14/clinton/index.html

We got our old Joan walsh back. :)

sorry to hog the thread. I'm going to try and stay away this time.

Unless McCain completely implodes (not likely), we're going to have a Republican President come January. If we're not going to move further in a right wing direction, two things need to happen: 1) We need a veto-proof majority in Congress and 2) We need this majority to be unified enough to stand up to McCain. Conservative Dems who are as likely to side with Republicans won't do it, and Pelosi has not thus far shown an ability to unify the party.

I had the great misfortune to live within the media market for this election. Travis Childers opened several of his ads with "I'm pro-life and pro-gun!" and focused on cutting spending in Washington. His latest ads vehemently denied any endorsement by or connection to Barack Obama (or his former pastor).

Mississippi....where even Democrats are Republicans.

I'm concerned that Joan's not concerned.

Has the seventh seal been opened?

Jamie, I should have included that point in the post. But I had a question I wasn't able to answer: Have prior Democrats running for that seat also run as conservatives? I'm just wondering how different Childers was, and I wasn't able to see much online. If they've been nominating super-conservative Dems and have still been losing, this would represent something really big. If they've been nominating liberals and losing, maybe it's not as nationally significant. I'll keep looking around but if you can fill us in, please do!

An act like Matthews wears out quickly--like talking to a rotary fan. I'm waiting for the day somebody takes him on. Or Olbermann says he's had enough--or he sticks his foot so far down his throat he can't get it out with the phoney "apology" he made last time. How are those ratings doing?

Please, while on Hardball, advice Chris Matthews to cool down his anti-Clinton rhetoric. He is really becoming a nuisance.

Of special note, efforts to tie Childers to Obama seemed to backfire.

Perhaps that's because Childers held a press conference where he unequivocally distanced himself from Obama and threw him under the bus.

Childers, who is pro-life and pro-gun, told a Memphis television interviewer that "Senator Obama has not endorsed my candidacy. I've not been in contact with his campaign nor has he been in contact with mine."

Further, when asked if he would accept Obama's endorsement, Childers replied, "Let me tell you what sort of endorsements we're looking for and that we've had. We've had the endorsement of working people of north Mississippi, working families."

Joan, if you're going to report on a story, you should tell the whole story!

"To the progressives who STILL fear the gop

"GOP scrambles after Mississippi loss

By JOHN BRESNAHAN & PATRICK O'CONNOR | 5/14/08 2:25 PM EST Text Size:

Cole said Wednesday morning that no major changes were in the works at the NRCC yet.

Photo: John Shinkle

Republican House leaders are scrambling to contain the damage after a third straight special election loss, with NRCC Chairman Tom Cole putting the blame on the party’s public image and former NRCC Chairman Tom Davis warning of a bloodbath in November if members can’t divorce themselves from the “brand” put on their party by President Bush"

the gop is done for a generation. Fear them not. this makes the main stream media and clinton's sell-out to them all the more curious. The gop is irrelevant for a generation. Rightfully so. Rather tahn jailing hteir criminals they choose party irrelevance. Do not fear the gop.

to those you say it's not about what they do but about what WE do, you right? Start with clinton. Tell her to stop pariasing fox and courting gop votes. Bad gop votes, not the good people. She's courting the racists and fascsits. Not the good republicans, and yes there are some. :)

It's like the nfl, before last year of course. The superbowl is never the good game or the game with the best teams. Our superbowl is the primary. mccain already lost. Clinton is playing a blackmail game. If she doesn't win the nom she will demand to be vp. Obama turns that down she will do what she can do. Thinking of herself. She will be mccain's vp and try to take her latinos and old ladies to the gop. Let her I say. Let's build this party without in party sabotage, or republcains posing as dem's selling out to their true party. Think about the future. The cow folk are done. They had their time, they wasted it. Pity them not for their irrelevacne. Did they pity us progressives/liberals?

-- rufus11 "

The only thing that can save this country from those pro-war, corporatist, anti-labor, anti-gay, pro-gun, anti-choice, Bible-thumping Republicans are more pro-war, corporatist, anti-labor, anti-gay, pro-gun, anti-choice, Bible-thumping Democrats. And I'm sure Hillary would agree.

Of special note, efforts to tie Childers to Obama seemed to backfire. If the Rev. Wright issue didn't work in a safe GOP district in Mississippi, I'm not sure where it will work.

How on earth did this backfire?

Childers doesn't even refer to Obama once by name in Childers' website; instead, Childers resorts to the phrase "a Senator from Illinois"

What this tells Democratic Congressional candidates in conservative districts is to put as much distance between themselves and Obama as possible. Hell, they'll probably start running ads claiming that their Republican opponents are too close to Obama.

We are coming for the Republicans.

We are gonna beat them like a drum. It is time, and past time, to take them to the cleaners.

We are coming in November, and we are gonna kick their skanky butts.

Call your representative, if he or she is a repukeliscum. Tell them: "WE ARE COMING FOR YOU IN NOVEMBER."