Hillary Clinton's Scorched Earth Policy
From Newsmax
This could be true, but this will not stop Hillary and her machine. She will never bow out quietly. She will do whatever it takes to win even if she destroys the party in the process. She is engaged in a Scorched Earth Policy that will lead to riots and cities on fire if she is perceived to have stolen the nomination from Barack Obama. I predict that if the worst case scenario occurs and cities burn during the Democratic National Convention that she will hold her ground firmly and brazenly call for Barack Obama to step aside for the sake of the party. She may very well get the nomination but what she will inherit in the process is a destroyed Democrat party, African American and youth disillusionment, an appalled and shocked public and a trail of destruction that will take decades to repair, if it ever can be. She may get the nomination but the result of her Scorched Earth Policy will forever disqualify her from ever holding elected office again. At least this would be the end to the Clinton corruption file.The real message of Tuesday’s primaries is not that Hillary Clinton won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough.
The race is over.
The results are already clear. Barack Obama will go to the Democratic Convention with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party’s chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20 years to recover from the traumas of 1968 and it is not about to trigger a similar bloodletting this year.
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March 10, 2008 1:48:00 AM MDT
Hillary has talked about the possibility of a Obama/Clinton ticket.
I guess she's up for anything to stay relevant!
March 10, 2008 7:17:00 PM MDT
Ted
Hillary needs Obama much more than Obama needs Hillary which in any kind of relationship gives him the upper hand.
March 11, 2008 12:38:00 AM MDT
IMO, Hillary's probably going to try latching onto McCain's campaign.
Johnny boy's said a number of times he won't play party-favourites. He's going to go for the people most deserving of their posts (cough cough Lieberman).
If she were to throw her weight behind McCain, she'd get even more experience for a later bid AND would keep Obama from the White House (from what I can tell, they'd rather not work with each other... it'd be a completely shrewed/brilliant move on her part).
Also, thanks for the shout out, ken.