Larry Kudlow thinks so:
Please allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Obama’s landslide victory in Wisconsin. The race is over. Hillary is finished. The Clinton Restoration is over. President Bill Clinton’s political invincibility is over. Hillary’s electability is over.
Obama got to the far Left faster than she did. He out organized her in the precincts. He out fundraised her. He out speechified her. He out-hustled her. He out-dressed her. He out-presidentialed her. He outdid her and he outbid her for votes, one promised government check at a time.
A 15-point margin in Wisconsin is incredible. Wisconsin is a lot like Ohio except for the wacko ultra-Left Madison college population, which is even worse that Columbus’s Ohio State. But there are so many campuses in Ohio that will go for Obama that it is no matter. Think faculty voters, grimly determined for a left-wing takeover of America ” from the bottom up” to use the former Saul Alinsky community organizer’s phrase. As goes Wisconsin, so goes Ohio.
Not even Hillary’s last-minute bashing of business and free-market capitalism, which is a complete repudiation of her husband’s presidency, could save her. Obama got there first, with a style and elegance that Hillary simply cannot match.
Bashing Obama for plagiarizing Deval Patrick? That negativism backfired. Go after Michelle Obama’s incredible anti-American speech? You must be kidding. The women are coming ’round to Obama. Going super-negative over the next two weeks? It’ll kill her. Obama will beat her by 35 points instead of twenty. Lift the sanctions on Michigan and Florida? It’s an Obama trump card. Bribe or rent the super-delegates? Make my day, Obama is thinking.
Hillary’s best bet to preserve her career as a professional politician? Pull back significantly in Texas and Ohio, as a prelude to withdrawal. Bill will say no, ’cause his career is even deader than hers. But Hillary has more class than he does. She still has some vague sense of reality, of the difference between right and wrong, even if he does not.
Strong words, and hard to argue with – but I’m not so sure that Hillary will back out. It is now or never for her, and while a wise person would start to back out and make plans for a lifetime in the Senate, eventually becoming a major power in that body, Hillary doesn’t entirely strike me as a wise person. Kudlow, I think, gives her too much credit – but, of course, I could be wrong. We’ll see over the next two weeks.
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I always love the characterizations of my home of Madison as a bastion of wacko liberals. All I have to do is point out how often we’re ranked among the cities with the highest quality of life, public schools, best city to do business in, best bicycle path system, etc, etc, etc:
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I especially get a kick out of the the fact that a bunch of crazy, elitist academic liberals (highest per capita PhD rate in country) make this eminently livable city what it is.
Looks like Obama, who once snorted coke and smoked weed, and his America-hating wife are well on their way to the nomination.
March 4 will be a big day for someone…
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Looks like Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh may have to find another candidate. For me, I will wait for March., but it looks like McCain will face the one candidate he has no shot at beating in November.
She won’t back out. However, we’ll start to see some unpleasant tactics from both her and her husband in the very near future.
Wow, McCain ’08…intelligent comment there. You make us all proud to be Republicans. Seriously, we can all see how Bush was re-elected. He won people like you!
Jane,
A patriotic American POW war hero with a lengthy history of bi-partisan accomplishments in the Senate stands no chance against the young, inexperienced with zero accomplishments and most liberal member of the Senate, junior Senator from Illinois?
Good luck with that.
winnowhead, In Cuba, where one can find the best healthcare in the world, AIDS patients are quarantined. There is hope for Berkeley, Madison and Boulder. Stay there, please, and there will be hope for the rest of the country as well. Hope. O8ama. Quarantine.
Hillary is ruthless; she will not quit. Just ask Vince Foster. Oops. Maybe not.
neocon, But Hussein is a uniter! The most liberal Senator will unite all the dimwitted Republicans and middle road Democrats and convince all to become far left wing fanatics.
Good luck with that.
Dearest McCain ’08:
The current occupant of the WH is no stranger to the bottle, coke or weed.
McCain himself has stated in great detail that his off time in Navy from the time he was made an Ensign to the day he was shot down over NV was spent inside a bottle.
McCain’s wife was addicted to Percocet and Vicodin for years and even stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.
So if addiction, dope and stealing are issues for you, better go back and ask Mitt to be your nominee.
Oh thats right, a lot of Republicans didn’t like him because his Church teaches Jesus and Satan were brothers.
WOW!
You’ve convinced me, I’m not voting for Bush or McCain’s wife!
Percy:
Bet you anything you voted for Bush in ’00 and ’04.
His wild past didn’t bother you then, why should it bother you in ’08 for another candidate?
Uh, I’m confused … I though tolerant progressives believed that the past is behind us. You, me, Obama … we’ve learned from our youthful indiscretions.
Besides, why would you want to go and bring up my record? I mean, how the hell was I supposed to know she was thirteen? Damn, She looked fifteen.
I am a tolerant progressive. It wasn’t me that brought up Obama’s “youthful indiscretions.” It was your comrade McCain ’08 that thought it was worth mentioning that Obama did a weed and coke when he was young.
My point is that GWB did the same. I didn’t hold it against him. When I voted in 2000 and 2004 that mattered not one bit.
Now, whatever this 13 or 15 year old stuff is, well, I would just leave that alone. You may want to talk to your local ecclesiastical authority about it or the police depending on your age and the harm you did the young lady.
McCain ’08!!! | February 20th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Looks like Obama, who once snorted coke and smoked weed,
You mean like Bush did in his younger days? At least Obama didn’t appear to have a problem with alcohol. And when did Michelle Obama say he hated America? guess I missed that one. Come on, be a man and quit whinning!
Eh, der? Grand analogy. But unfortunately, ridiculous. Things like the AIDS Network is how Madison assists AIDS patients.
Don’t worry, I’m not leaving to infect your backwards community. I’ll stay here with my hippy, latte-sipping, volvo driving neighbors and keep taking the bike path to my coop.
Para mi es una cosa muy sencillo. Obama es un hombre que habla la linqua del pueblo. Hillary es un gran “whiner” y es un gran “wonk.” La mujer no tiene nada.