Wheels May Come Off the Clinton Campaign
This is rich. A little political analysis from our friends north of the 4000 plus mile unsecured border. A fun comparison that considers Hillary Rodham Clinton being in the same place as was Howard Dean last time around. And wondering if the wheels may come off the Clinton campaign. In another report, Mark Penn suggested every campaign must face one event that has the potential to end the run before reaching the elections. That would be Clinton’s top strategist.
More than Howard Dean’s now famous episode of crazed cheerleading during the campaign, placing third in Iowa and the Democratic party elite’s decision to anoint John Kerry as their standard bearer may have been the real damage done to the Dean chase for the nomination in 2004. It is also helpful to note that current Democratic candidate John Edwards was doing quite well in the primaries of 2004 when these events took place and now he is struggling in third place and looks entirely different than the John Edwards in the previous campaign.
But enough about the unlikely nominees for 2008 and the failed attempts of 2004. What about Hillary Rodham Clinton? The Democratic front runner has that pesky Barack Obama on her heels. Quite the lofty lead she has in the polls. But lately, contrary to the trend earlier in the campaign, candidates and pundits alike are indicating polls are now of limited value in predicting the outcomes. Would that be due to candidates who are not favored by the polls and pundits who have been contradicted by the polls? Or is it because the headlines produced by polls attract a smaller audience these days.
While the article referenced has a humorous analogy from Clinton strategists that the campaign is not so much a contest as it is a race between Hillary and the Seven Dwarfs, she is no Snow White. She is more like the other main character. However this blog still prefers the nickname reference found on Michelle Malkin’s site for Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Queen of Cringe. And if you don’t find Sean Hannity’s radio show humorous when playing the Hillary laugh track (repeatedly) then your sense of humor suffers from getting way too serious about politics.
While Obama claims he will close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton most believe his agent of change pitch has not been adequate to overcome HRC’s campaign machine and the Bill factor. Other pundits indicate HRC’s strength is name recognition and the ability to thwart scandal damage. She certainly has an abundance of experience handling what some call adversity but this blog calls damage control. The law of averages or some other mathmatical evaluation would suggest that the luck of Clinton’s will run out sometime. As long as it happens before November 2008 the rest is simply entertainment.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
In fact, Dean, the former Vermont governor, was considered a shoo-in to become the Democratic nominee in the presidential race, a full four months before his ill-timed yelp and third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses in January 2004 doomed his campaign.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:17 am
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