Jumping Off Of The Hillary Bandwagon
Bush 41 and Newt Gingrich change their predictions about Hillary’s chance of locking up the nomination for the Democrats:
“Well, look, if she’s the nominee, I obviously will be for her opponent. I thought a few weeks ago that she was almost a ‘gimme’, as we say in golf, for the nomination. I’m not sure I feel that way now. Well, there seems to be more kind of internal — in her own party there seems to be more willingness to take her on and to argue about stuff. But she’s a formidable opponent and she’s done very well, in my view. Now would I be for her? No.”
“I’m not sure that — you know, again, I want to be on record as just saying I don’t necessarily believe Hillary is going to win the primary, to say nothing of the general election. But the American people have a way of sorting these things out. And they go to caucuses or go to the primaries and just work, grind your way up the — to whatever lies ahead, and that’s what’s happened. There hasn’t been any anointing in the process.”
Newt thinks that on to many issues, Hillary has either contradicted herself or is just plain on the wrong side of things:
“Her performance in that debate was so bad, on issues that matter so much, she may not be able to recover from it… This issue ofSpitzer trying to give out driver’s licenses to people at a time when your driver’s license allows you to vote — for her to trap herself into saying that creates a big wound…
The fact that she said she’s basically sympathetic with Rangel’s trillion-dollar-tax increase — that’s going to arouse some deep opposition. The huge Democratic tax increase allowed us to win in 1994… Then, I saw in a ticker on Fox News, when Sen. Edwards said nominating her would be ‘a victory for a corruption machine’… it brings back a lot of memories of the Chinese funding scandals of 1996… It takes her winning the nomination from an 80 percent likelihood to a 50 percent. It’s even money. If she doesn’t turn this around quick, I may have to call back in and take it even lower.”
So an opporunity has presented itself to allow Obama to gain some ground on Hillary and possibly for Edwards to get on track. The problem I see is that Hillary has been running the most centrist campaign, at least as centrist as a liberal can be, especially compared to Obama and Edwards. Do these other candidates, to take advantage of the poor debate performance, run to her right or even further left?
— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx