Mary Matalin explains why Hillary is the stronger candidate against McCain!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 21, 2008 - 4:55am.
Rapid Response
Hello Everyone:
While I would disagree with Republican strategist Mary Matalin on a lot of issues, I will have to give her credit that she is honest about saying what she really believes when she publicly comments on something.
Here is the CNN Situation Room transcript from Wednesday, February 20 where Mary Matalin honestly answered Wolf Blitzer and explained why Hillary Clinton "would be a stronger candidate against John McCain:"
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/20/sitroom.01.html
THE SITUATION ROOM
Powerful Union Endorses Obama; McCain Blasts Obama: Addresses Issue of Experience; Interview With Mary Matalin
Aired February 20, 2008 - 16:00 ET
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "Who would be a stronger candidate against John McCain, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?
MARY MATALIN, FMR. ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUSH: You know, the conventional wisdom is Barack Obama, because people are looking at these national polls. I don't think so.
I think she is a much tougher candidate. You know, she is right about Barack Obama. He has not been vetted. The press is largely swooning, maybe present company excluded, but he has not been vetted by the press, he's not been vetted by any Democrats because they all believe in the same thing. It's been a personality contest.
BLITZER: So what would he do to undermine him in a general contest that Hillary Clinton was unable to do?
MATALIN: Well, when you sweep away the soaring rhetoric, which is magnificent -- the best order since Cicero -- but you take that out of there, he's pretty standard issue liberal, way liberal on every conceivable issue. And that's a good contrast.
If someone has added up all of his spending proposals, we are already at $800 billion. He wants to centralize health care. He's a big government redistributionist, liberal. And the Democrats have only won three out of 10 contests in the last presidential, and they have not been liberals. They have been southern centrists. So he's just a great contrast.
BLITZER: Mary Matalin, thanks for coming in.
MATALIN: Wolf, thank you for having me..."
I do not care who this explanation is from. If she is right, then she is right, and she is right in my opinion!
It is actually a breath of fresh air in my opinion to see a well known Republican strategist like Mary Matalin publicly admit to this when so many other well known partisan Republicans are cheering on Obama right now because they know that he is the weaker general election candidate:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14734
Rush Limbaugh is suggesting that Republicans VOTE FOR OBAMA in the Texas primary
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 16, 2008 - 2:49am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14328
ANALYSIS: Why are Rush Limbaugh & Karl Rove so eager to give Obama their advice?
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 6, 2008 - 2:15am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14547
Anti-Clinton author Kathleen Willey wrote an open letter giving advice to Obama!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 30, 2008 - 10:30am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14734#comment-283472
Dick Morris urges Republicans in Texas to vote for Obama on H&C:
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 19, 2008 - 10:49am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14603
DOCUMENTATION: Issues that will come back to hurt Obama IF he is nominated!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 4, 2008 - 9:07am.
Please forward this information on so that more Democratic primary voters will see what Mary Matalin really thinks about Obama's lack of electability and his lack of scrutiny from the press. They also need to see that Neocon GOP ideologues such as Rush Limbaugh and Dick Morris are openly rooting for Obama to be the Democratic nominee which should hopefully send a very strong message to them as to who partisans in the Republican Party really want to run against in the general election!
Mitch Dworkin
http://www.securingamerica.com/
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer"
Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.
http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!
Michelle Obama said, "For the first time in my adult life, I am (she may have put "really" here) proud of my country." (I think the last word was "country")
Imagine what the Republicans are going to do with that. We won't hear the last of that comment if Obama wins the nomination. In my opinion, the typical voter that would pay attention to that comment and be extremely upset is the elderly - which happens to be the most active voter.
The voters 65 years old and older did their share in making our country the best in the world. Many of those voters lived through the Depression as kids. They'll remember their struggles. They fought wars & worked hard throughout their lives (and often in working conditons much more difficult than today) to make our country strong and safe. We owe them so much. They don't deserve to hear a potential First Lady say such things.
I understand what Michelle Obama was trying to say, but when you are one of the voices that represents America, you need to choose your words more carefully. If I'm correct, this was a prepared speech, not a forum where random questions were asked.
I really think many elderly voters will take offense to her comment. They have shed a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for their beloved Country. The Republicans will know how to use Michelle Obama's words in a general election campaign. It is the elderly vote that could switch over to John McCain - someone who is close to their age and fought in war (and was a prisoner of war).
jmo
that every time one of these goober remarks come up for either one of the Obamas, there always is the "comeback of that is not what I/he/she meant to say"
Am I imagining this?
Either she is not reading the speech as written or they need someone to write a better speech. Either way she looks bad.
absolutely. The repubs will know how to use this.
It's the old "libruls hate our country" meme handed to them on a silver plater.
Not ready for prime time.
"This is no time for amateurs"....etc, etc.
I think Senator McCain is getting "swift-boated" again.
I have this funny feeling that Romeny (and maybe Huckabee) may have known that this story about John McCain was about to come out in the press. Romeny getting out of the race and saying what he did may have been a way to kiss up (for future benefits) to the Conservatives in the Republican party.
I could very well be wrong, but I don't trust Romney.
what he does in his personal life. But if he did something to hurt the country in any way then that would be another story.
I'm going out of town today, but when I get back, I'm putting up the Rationalization Tree. I can't wait to get out the family heirloom Rationalization ornaments, and my brother in law has already begun hanging the Rationalization decorations on the front of the house.
This year, we got a Pony to put on top of the tree!
It's gonna be so pretty and fun!
(not)
Thanks for your diary.
Please take a look at this list of national polls
McCain vs Hillary:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_clinton-224.html
and McCain vs Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
these are the most recent polls from tha major polling organizations.
Obama beats McCain with a substantial margin in each of the 7 recent polls listed.
McCain beats Clinton in 6 and loses by 1 in the 7th.
As you may know, Mary Matalin is married to James Carville.
Evelyn
And will add I don't believe these polls. If Republicans are willing to switch Party to support Obama in the primaries and caucuses, it makes sense they'd verify that support in a poll.
The only way we'll truly know if the game plan of "Stop Her Now" worked, is if Obama wins the nomination. If so, his wins in the GE should be unprecedented, picking up red States, turning purple States blue, and taking blue States by overwhelming majorities. If Hillary can't overcome the gaming in TX, it looks like we may just find out.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Attended a meeting last night where one of the higher party officials went over a bit of the early voting numbers in Fort Worth, TX....
Early voting numbers were about 10x typical primary turnouts.
49% of the votes occurring on the first day were from people with no prior voting history. Less that 2% of the votes in the Democratic primary were from people with a prior GOP voting history.
Now some of that voting from the GOP-oriented crowd could be gaming the system, but on the other hand there could definately be a significant number that are just fed up with Bush and crew. I don't think the 'crossovers' are going to be a big factor in the results.
right now are really like an illusion because Obama has not been vetted, he has been been given a free ride by most of the media, and he has not endured very much of the GOP attack machine yet like how Hillary has which will definitely raise his negative numbers and will lower his poll numbers against McCain IF he is the nominee as I have credibly documented:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/13992
Hillary's high negatives are an illusion compared to Obama or any other Democrat
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 28, 2007 - 4:49pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14599
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Robert Menendez got it right about Obama's lack of electability
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 4, 2008 - 6:36am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14789#comment-284068
There is NO question in my opinion of anti-Hillary media bias... and that Barack Obama has received a free ride from many pundits in the media as I have very credibly and thoroughly documented:
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 20, 2008 - 3:56pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14338
A good question asked by PAforClark: "Tell me why I should vote FOR Clinton?"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 7, 2008 - 6:10am.
Here is just the tip of the iceberg of what the other side will be throwing at both Barack and Michelle Obama which most of the country is not aware of yet IF Obama is the nominee:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/02/obamboozled_did.html
February 20, 2008
Obamboozled: Did B Hussein O Steal Speeches From Racist Spike Lee Movies?
It sure looks like it. Do you really want a Prez whose ideas for this country are stolen from racist, anti-Semitic Spike Lee's movies glorifying Nation of Islam leaders? (Thanks to reader David for the tip!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU (04:28)
Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling Watch the whole video. It's well done to the end. Do you really want this apparent imitator of Denzel Washington imitating Malcolm X? So let me get this straight, the man who wants to be leader of the free world claims he doesn't like the Nation of Islam. But he likes to imitate its leaders as portrayed in movies?! G-d help us. Can you really afford to have this phony as the next President of the United States? NO, YOU CAN'T. Ya been Bamboozled. Ya been hoodwinked. --"Barack Hussein Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling."
Barack Hussein Obama Playing Denzel Washington Playing Malcolm X:
Is This the Next Prez?
Posted by Debbie at February 20, 2008 10:28 PM
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/02/18/will-media-ignore-michelle-obama-remark
Will Media Ignore Michelle Obama Remark?
By John Stephenson | February 18, 2008 - 19:21 ET
First she said that only Obama can "fix America's broken soul," and now this. If anything can stop Obama from getting the nomination or eventual Presidency,his wife running her mouth could be it.
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/02/16/obamassiah-mender-of-broken-souls/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/pride_in_the_na.html
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/02/18/is-michelle-obama-the-next-teresa-heinz-kerry/
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
Doesn't this beg the question, "when did she become an adult"? Yesterday? The question is, will the media pay attention to this gaffe? Probably not much, and that is why the bloggers have to. Will Michelle be this year's Teresa Heinz Kerry?
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/02/18/is-michelle-obama-the-next-teresa-heinz-kerry/
So her husband's run for President is the only thing she has ever been proud of America for? That sounds quite self-centered and arrogant! Nothing? Nothing like winning the Cold War, or feeding poor countries? Wow! How selfish is this?
Did she mean this the way it came out? Shouldn't the media be asking?
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Hi Eve:
I am fully aware that "Mary Matalin is married to James Carville."
That does not change the fact that she is still honest when she gives her opinions in public interviews as far as I have seen.
She was absolutely right in my opinion when she called George Allen the 2008 GOP front-runner back in January of 2006:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10909406/
Meet The Press Transcript for January 22, 2006
Barack Obama, James Carville, Paul Begala & Mary Matalin
MR. RUSSERT: "How about the Republicans, Mary Matalin? Who’s the front-you said that Hillary Clinton is the front-runner on the Democratic side, who’s the front-runner on the Republican side?
MS. MATALIN: Well, the insider front-runner is George Allen.
MR. RUSSERT: In all the polls, it’s John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.
MS. MATALIN: Yeah, I said the insiders, who have to run these campaigns and can look at the map and look at what philosophy plays in our primaries, the part that it plays, and how it incentivizes activists like George Allen. But we have a deep and a very good bench too, McCain and Giuliani..."
If George Allen had won the 2006 Virginia Senate race against Jim Webb and if Allen did not have his "Maccacca moment" gaffe, then he would have sailed to the 2008 GOP nomination as Rush Limbaugh's hand picked stooge:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/5213
Analysis and Documentation: George Allen is already the GOP 2008 "front-runner!"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 25, 2006 - 7:06pm.
While I disagree with Mary Matalin on a lot of issues, I have not known her to be dishonest about what she really thinks when I have seen her give public interviews!
Mitch
to donate to the Clinton campaign...that suggests that Republicans really think she would be the weaker candidate against McCain.
Also here's the latest Rasmussen info on the November matchup in Iowa:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/iowa/iowa_presidential_election
Hi Eve:
Can you document that?
Here is what I can document which is directly from Rush Limbaugh's website:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021508/content/01125109.guest.html
Take Her Out and End All Doubt
February 15, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 
RUSH: "Rebecca, Kansas City, Missouri, you're next on Open Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I'd like to introduce a new slogan, based on my agreement with that last caller yesterday, and you mentioned how the Republicans and Texans should take up a Democrat ballot and vote for Obama.
RUSH: Right. Let's be accurate about what she said. Republicans in Texas need to "pimp themselves" --
CALLER: Yes, that's correct.
RUSH: -- for one day, just one day and go vote for Obama in the Democrat primary.
CALLER: Right. Well, you had mentioned your slogan, "Keep Her In It So We Can Win It"?
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: Well, I disagree. My slogan is: "Take Her Out And End All Doubt."
RUSH: (laughter) I love that!
CALLER: Well, that's based on my agreement, you know, that she is a criminal, you know, with all the stuff that the media won't pin her on, you know --
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: -- the illegal contributions, FBI files, you know?
RUSH: Bunch of kneecappers.
CALLER: Yeah, stealing furniture from the White House when they moved out.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: You know, getting this lady back in from Kansas City who was seen taking the files from Vince Foster's office and all that.
RUSH: Maggie Williams. So the slogan is take out Hillary now and remove all doubt?
CALLER: No. "Take Her Out And End All Doubt."
RUSH: Take her out and remove all doubt?
CALLER: And end all doubt.
RUSH: End all doubt. "Take Her Out And End All Doubt." Michaele? I'm talking to Michaele back in the website. We gotta come up with a new graphic with this, because this is a good one. We've got competing campaign slogans for Mrs. Clinton. "Take Her Out, End All Doubt." Is that it?
CALLER: Yes..."
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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021408/content/01125117.guest.html
Pimp Yourself to Vanquish Hillary?
February 14, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Mary, I got 55 seconds. Can you do this in 55 seconds? Good.
CALLER: Yes, I can. I think the conservatives need to pimp ourselves for one day. Those would be Texas and Ohio conservatives, and let us just take the Clintons out by having them vote for Obama. We have our candidate. The country needs to get rid of these people.
RUSH: Some people would say to you it would be much easier to defeat Hillary in a general than Obama and get rid of her then.
CALLER: She's a criminal, and I don't want any quid pro quos between her and the superdelegates in the party and everything else.
RUSH: All right, so you don't want to take any chances she can win. You want to vanquish now. I know a lot of people feel that way, so she says, Mary in Elmhurst, Illinois: "Republicans in Texas, pimp yourselves for a day and vote Obama in the Texas primary."
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
• UPI: Texas Primary Make-or-Break for Clinton
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/13/texas_primary_make-or-break_for_clinton/5649/
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On the idiot Rush's web site he has this:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020708/content/01125114.guest.html
I hope as do we all, that whoever wins this primary, that Wes Clark is the VP.
I happen to find Obama's vision more in line with the vision that Wes inspired in us...but Senator Clinton is a wonderful candidate and she would make an excellent president.
So I hope Wes's group can stay together. I have been working on a diary for DK re Obama choosing Wes Clark as VP if he wins, and will post it if I can finish it,
Thanks again, Mitch.
money for Hillary but he was rather trying to exploit her financial situation as the article below will verify which came out the day after the article that you quoted above.
This article from Limbaugh below was a supplement to the article that you quoted above where Limbaugh clearly sees that Chris Matthews is rooting for Obama:
RUSH: "The dirty little secret here is that Chris Matthews has been on the anti-Hillary Clinton bandwagon. He's been on a tear against her for weeks now, if not months. It is clear that he's chosen Obama..."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020808/content/01125106.guest.html
The Clintons Lied to Us About the Need for a Limbaugh Fundraiser
February 8, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I cannot believe that I let my guard down as easily as it happened. This incident just goes to show how easy it is to lose one's vigilance. As you know, the past two days we've been hearing sob stories from the Clinton campaign about how she's out of money, about how she had to borrow $5 million from either herself or her husband, how the staff is not being paid. None of it was true. Not one word of it is true. I mean, she might have borrowed $5 million, but she is not out of money by any stretch. Her staffers are being paid. We have two stories on this from ABC News. We were clearly lied to, and this is where the vigilance fell. It's the Clintons. We should have always suspected a lie. The whole thing was a ruse to gin up fundraising, because she is lagging behind Barack Obama. But she's not out of money. The whole thing was a flat-out lie from top to bottom.
So, as you know, if you were here from yesterday, I have listened carefully to what the Republican Party's strategy is for defeating Mrs. Clinton, and it is this. They are going to rely on the hatred and the loathing for Mrs. Clinton, the fear of Mrs. Clinton, to rally Republicans and conservatives to vote against her. Rather than offer genuine leadership from our own party, they're going to rely on your hatred, your disgust, your loathing, and your fear for Mrs. Clinton to rally you to the Republican side and Senator McCain just to keep her out of the White House. So I thought, being loyal to the party here to show that there are no hard feelings over anything, I was going to help that prospect along. I was going to do a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton. I even came up with a slogan: "Keep Her In It So We Can Win It." We even have a little banner at RushLimbaugh.com that we were going to get printed up. I was thinking very seriously about actually doing this on the air here. I wasn't going to ask you people to send in a lot of money, just a buck or two. There's a lot of you out there. You could seriously help. But I'm canceling the fundraiser. It's no longer necessary. The whole thing was a lie. There will be no fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton. She's doing just fine. You're going to have to come up with your fear and loathing of her on your own. I'll be in there, but I doubt that you'll need much assistance on that.
I also predicted off air yesterday to my trusted and loyal staff here that members of the Drive-By Media would fall hook, line, and sinker for this and would report that I was so angry at McCain being the presumptive Republican nominee, so angry at having lost my mojo, so angry at being rejected by my own party, that I, in a fit of pique, in a fit of anger, would run out and publicly support Mrs. Clinton, and it happened. It happened in two places. Diane Sawyer and local CBS Channel 2 in New York. Now, Diane Sawyer, she's on the edge here of not getting it or getting it. But it could not have been more clear what this was about. In fact, I even said yesterday, Snerdley asked me, "Well, you endorsed Howard Dean." I said, "I'm not endorsing Hillary. I'm just thinking about raising money for her to help further the Republican strategery making sure she's the nominee, keep her in it so we can win it." Let's go to the audiotape, Good Morning America today, Diane Sawyer with Newt Gingrich about me and Senator McCain. Sawyer says, "I'm going to play Rush Limbaugh's response of the call for calm."
RUSH ARCHIVE: We've gotta calm down, that's what you say to six year olds.
SAWYER: And just yesterday Rush Limbaugh, as we know, conservative talk show host on the radio, said that he's thinking about helping Senator Clinton, Hillary Clinton raise money, said perhaps ironically, but this doesn't sound like a group of conservatives coming around.
GINGRICH: I'm going to try to outline the notion that maybe it will be healthy for conservatives to start a new presidency by understanding that you've gotta measure every single proposal. You've gotta oppose the ones that are wrong and be for the ones that are right, but it's not about a yes-no test on one personality. I think issue by issue we'll sometimes fight Senator McCain and we'll sometimes be for him.
RUSH: All right, so I'm going to leave all the McCain stuff aside for today. I've got some e-mails I want to read to you from people who are royally angry at me. Oh, ho-ho, the e-mails continue to pour in in record numbers. But, you see, Diane Sawyer said, "perhaps ironically, but this doesn't sound like a group of conservatives..." Diane, the whole point of raising money for Hillary was to help the Republican Party because their strategy is, they can easily beat her, more so than Obama. Let's move on to New York. WCBS-TV, Channel 2, they took it dead seriously. This is the CBS 2 News This Morning show today, and the anchors Maurice DuBois and Kate Sullivan.
DUBOIS: Shortly after the announcement, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners to combat McCain he may raise money for Hillary Clinton.
RUSH: The reason for raising money for Hillary is because apparently my party is relying on fear and loathing of Hillary to get the nomination to unite Republicans who are, some of them, off the reservation.
SULLIVAN: Fascinating in politics not only on the Democratic side but the Republican side, and now with Mitt Romney dropping out.
DUBOIS: Mmm-hmm, plot thickens.
SULLIVAN: Yes, very interesting
RUSH: You know, these Drive-By Media people are so predictable. I was telling somebody this morning, their focus is so narrow. Their clichéd, stereotypical view of conservatives and me is so narrow, they haven't the slightest -- it could not have been more plain yesterday, could not have been clearer. They think that I'm in a fit of pique even after playing my sound bite, that I am so upset that Romney dropped out, that McCain's the nominee, that I'm going to go raise money for Hillary Clinton. It didn't dawn on them that I was being loyal to the party.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough's show this morning, talking about me and Hillary.
MATTHEWS: Republican talk show people like Rush Limbaugh, they wouldn't be so unhappy to have Hillary Clinton to beat up for four or eight years, especially four years.
WOMAN: Mmmm.
MATTHEWS: Imagine Hillary Clinton as president for a couple of months with about a one-point advantage come into office. They will crash around her, hitting her with everything they got! She won't get a three-second honeymoon! They'll be in heaven.
RUSH: Back to the same old thing. Chris, it's been 20 years. When are you people going to get it through your head? Who wins elections is irrelevant to me in terms of my success! It doesn't matter. My success is not dependent on who wins elections. I don't want Hillary to win so I'll have exciting shows for four or eight years. It would be pure agony to deal with that bunch in the White House and in Washington again. And Matthews continues his rant.
MATTHEWS: Rush Limbaugh will be in heaven!
WOMAN: (cackles)
MATTHEWS: The ratings will go through the roof! Roger Ailes will be in -- he'll be in on Neptune, he'll be so happy!
VOICES: (laughter)
MATTHEWS: He'll be so happy, because all they'll do every day is say, "How do we beat up Hillary Clinton today," unless occasionally she starts a war, and then they'll give her a parade.
WOMAN: (cackles)
MATTHEWS: Give her a parade every day she starts a war, but then she's not starting a war, they'll kill her.
RUSH: The dirty little secret here is that Chris Matthews has been on the anti-Hillary Clinton bandwagon. He's been on a tear against her for weeks now, if not months. It is clear that he's chosen Obama; and now this transference, this projection, saying that what we want is Hillary to win? If that's the case, we ought... I caught myself on that. If we want Hillary, wouldn't it be wise to nominate somebody we think is going to lose? And if we're going to nominate somebody we think is going to lose, wouldn't it be wise for me to support that nominee? Gosh, they're so dense. It's never going to change. They are who they are, and it's not going to change.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
• ABC: Clinton Campaign Staffers Not Going Without Pay
• ABC: Clinton Loaned Campaign $5 Million
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for clarifying...I don't have the stomach to read through Limbaugh or the other sick neocons.
But I agree that it's necessary to do that before one can draw conclusions.
Thanks, again.
I hope that Limbaugh and the other media creeps wither up and melt away.
That would be a start to recovering our political health.
Hi Eve:
I understand where you are coming from and I appreciate your comments.
In my opinion, we definitely need to have the stomach to read through Limbaugh and the other sick Neocons because you have to know what they are saying in order to be able to effectively fight back against them!
I also wish "that Limbaugh and the other media creeps wither up and melt away" but that will just NOT happen by itself. The only way it will happen is when enough people stop taking their crap and actively decide to fight back to do something about them in an organized manner on a national level.
Mitch
I know you're right, and I think that you have shown extraordinary endurance in analyzing the often outrageous statements of right wing pundits who are not being held accountable by their peers in the media (keith Olbermann has been one exception and has held these bottom feeders accountable.)
So it's to your credit that you do this analysis and that's the only way to hold them accountable.
I try sometimes to read their crap but I honestly don't have the endurance to do it.
They need to be discredited...thanks for all you do on this.
I find it bizarre how Rush Limbaugh and his fellow spewers of hate had been attacking John McCain as unacceptable for the Republican presidential candidate but now seem to have been drawn into the fold courtesy of the NYT piece about McCain.
It is really bizarre and I guess we'll never what what happened behind the scenes.
are for the most part accepting John McCain right now mainly because a candidate holding to Neocon foreign policy principles is their top litmus test and trumps every other issue to them as I have previously documented:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/11240
ANALYSIS: Division in the GOP over who is "conservative" based on foreign policy
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 28, 2007 - 5:46pm.
The bottom line of what "Rush Limbaugh and his fellow spewers of hate" do not like about John McCain is that he is a maverick who they cannot fully control and who at times reaches out to Democrats which they cannot stand:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/11920
ANALYSIS: Exactly how Extreme and Arrogant that the Neocon GOP Activist Base is!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 27, 2007 - 4:02pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/12716
ANALYSIS: Extreme right wing vs. right wing/Neoconservative vs. Conservative!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on July 19, 2007 - 9:07am.
Many of the Rush Limbaugh crowd will probably settle for McCain as being sort of "the lesser of two evils" compared to a Democrat who will put a stop to Neocon foreign policy!
in the general election IF he is the nominee:
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article.html
January 28, 2008 Issue
The American Conservative
Untested Savior
Barack Obama answers Democrats’ longing for a candidate who is above politics, but he would probably lead them to disaster in November.
by Scott McConnell
"As the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama could quickly become known as Barack Hussein Obama. Republican commercials and talk radio would guarantee it. Negative TV spots could be relatively banal, pointing to some liberal highlights from Obama’s state legislature record—one very strong pro-abortion vote and another against people who used unregistered guns to protect their homes against intruders would do the trick. And then, a voiceover, intoning something like “Barack Hussein Obama—Right for America?”...
Compared to primary voters, November voters are lower on the political awareness scale, less educated, less prosperous, less tuned in. Many will be forming an opinion about Barack Obama for the first time during and after the conventions, and branding him could be done comparatively quickly. Democrats in 1988 were astonished at how rapidly Michael Dukakis was “defined” by Willie Horton and how fast the Duke’s double-digit lead in national polls evaporated. They of course knew that Dukakis was a competent and tested governor, a proven debater, no slouch on law and order. How could blue-collar voters not see this? Similarly, John Kerry’s team found the Swiftboat charges so ludicrous they didn’t deign to answer them. But, to the campaign’s remorse, many voters found them believable enough. On what basis should we assume that white working-class voters (precisely those most resistant to Obama’s electoral appeal thus far) would be completely unmoved by a campaign geared to question Obama’s “American-ness”?..."
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
McCain Can Beat Obama
Posted by: Patrick Ruffini at 4:33 PM
Here at CPAC, there are lots of folks still in recovery. I'm still getting getting used to the idea of McCain as our nominee.
But let me offer this.
I'm beginning to think Obama might be the easier candidate for McCain to beat. Why? Because there could be no clearer contrast on the Commander-in-Chief test.
Obama has been the best marketed candidate of my lifetime. That means (I suspect) that anyone who would be attracted to Obama has already come to him. He's got general election sized crowds and general election sized money a couple of months early.
Hillary is in the impossible position of having to beat down the Democrats' very real desire for "hope" and "change." McCain will just disregard those sentiments and argue on experience, building a base among Republicans and independents for whom experience actually matters (Hillary has no such base among Dems).
And then he'll ask the question: Who would you trust as Commander-in-Chief? And it will be no contest. Voter discontent with Iraq (which has been abating of late) aside, people like a Commander-in-Chief who acts like a Commander-in-Chief, not one who will have tea with Hugo Chavez.
Hillary denies McCain this angle of attack to some extent. Obama leaves it wide open.
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