They’re Too Soft
Bullshit.
Giangreco was central to Rod’s reelection–you know, the one where he ran against George Ryan…uhhhh…Judy.
Let me add as I briefly mentioned below. Gibbs worked with the team that torpedoed Dean with the terrorism commercials in Iowa. That might not ingratiate him to others, but he’s good at fighting. He just had an embarrassment of riches in 2004 with Keyes.
Hildebrand ran a brutal campaign against Bradley in Iowa. Every damned event Gore people were there mucking it up.
Burton was working in a very effective press shop at DCCC this cycle. They turned out good work the entire campaign keeping the Republicans off of message.
I don’t know if this team will win, but it’s certainly a group who can handle a punch and hit back.
January 16th, 2007 at
For a millisecond there, I thought you were disagreeing with me. LOL.
January 16th, 2007 at
The Dem candidate will need precisely such a time to win the primary and, more importantly, the general.
Look at the …ahem …really nice people… McCain is lining up for his run. He’s going to simultaneously Gore, McCain and Swift Boat any and every opponent he has.
January 16th, 2007 at
I’m not saying it’s so, but I wonder how much of this “Obama is gonna get raked by Clinton” comes from the natural but intensely grating New York superiority and the equally grating Chicago inferiority complex when it comes to the Big Apple?
January 16th, 2007 at
I don’t see HRC going negative on Obama successfully.
There are two problems for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She can’t go negative against Obama in a way that prevents her from bridging back to Black voters in the general election.
Also, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s popularity with the Dem base originates from the perception that GOP attacks against her and her husband were unfair. If HRC uses attacks that are perceived as being unfair against another Dems she will risk losing her own support.
I think HRC’s best strategy would have been to declare early and try to run on the Clinton economy. Let the “second tier” candidates go negative against each other.
By waiting until late to declare HRC has made her situation more difficult.
As I read the situation her best play is to stay out of the race. Perhaps she was trying to calculate how to beat Gore while Obama was calculating how to beat HRC.
January 16th, 2007 at
Remember what Maria Pappas called Obama? “The Tiger Woods of politics”
January 16th, 2007 at
I would never underestimate the Clintons.
That said, I like Obama better than Hillary, which is not saying much, I know.
Good luck guys!
January 17th, 2007 at
Understand, I don’t have a dog in this fight.
However…
I look forward to when Obama goes through the wood chipper, otherwise known as the Clinton Political Machine.
True, the media is building him up, only later to tear him back down…think Howard ‘I have a scream’ Dean.
All that said, Obama can have the nomination when he takes it from the cold dead figures of Hilary.
If Obama runs is ’08 he is too stupid to be President. If he decides not to run in ’08 he is way too smart to be President.
If nothing else, Democratic Party politics is (almost) always fun to watch