In the wake of her wins in Texas and Ohio, Hillary has received some grudging respect from the MSM, as her recent appearances on the covers of Time and Newsweek can attest:
I say grudging, because everybody knows what it will take for her to win the nomination, her chances are slim, and whatever the outcome, the party suffers by her staying in the race.
And that’s pissing some people off, even die-hard Cintonistas:
She has no idea how many times I defended her. How many right-leaning friends and relatives I battled with. How many times I played down her shady business deals and penchant for scandals — whether it was Whitewater, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Cattle Futures, Web Hubbell, or Norman Hsu. She has no idea how frequently I dismissed her husband’s serial adultery as an unfortunate trait of an otherwise brilliant man. For sixteen years, I was a proud soldier in the legion of “Clinton apologists” — who believed that peace and prosperity were more important than regrettable personality traits.
And then she ran for president.
Cry me a river, chump.
Does she have a chance? Dick Morris is keeping hope alive, by saying, no. Others are not so sure:
The stage is set for some world-class skullduggery. Indeed, the procedural funny stuff is no doubt already under way.
I don’t know if she has a chance, myself, but I’m leaning towards, no. And while I was once enthusiastically rooting for her to win the nomination, as she has appeared to be the more beatable candidate…(I can’t bring myself to say “weaker candidate as they’re both weak), now that she’s rather conspicuously hinting that she’d be happy to have Obama as her V.P., I’ve changed my mind. I think the two of them on the same ticket would be a nightmare for the Republicans, and I can’t imagine Obama wanting Hillary on his ticket, although Hillary is apparently perfectly willing to be.
Newsbusters has a clip of what The Today Show thinks of Hillary’s gambit to float Obama’s name as her V.P. pick: “Ignorant, arrogant, illogical, and condescending”. The Politico has Obama’s response:
“Now first of all with all due respect, with all due respect,” he said here during a town hall meeting. “I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So I don’t’ know how someone in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone in first place. If I was in second place I could understand but I am in first place right now.
She has the “audacity of hope”?
“They have been spending the last two or three weeks” arguing that he is not ready to be commander in chief, Obama said.
“I don’t understand. If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?”
Good point.
While I’m not really looking forward to the general election, this primary season has been heaps of fun to watch. I think it has been a season of audacity. Not “audacity of hope”…just plain audacity.
On the one hand, we’ve got a guy “running for president even as he was still getting lost in the Capitol’s corridors” . . .and a gal who refuses to give up even if she takes down the whole Democratic party, “a political suicide-bomber, happy to blow herself to bits — as long as she takes everyone else with her”.
Fun times, fun times.
