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Posted at 1:12pm on May 8, 2008 Hillary: Vote for me! Whites hate Barry!

Both Dems are playing with race. This is not a good thing.

By Mark Kilmer

Only Hillary can beat John McCain this November, she tells us. Why? 'Cos the downscale white guys support her, while they hate Barry.

Says Hillary to USA Today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Hmmmmm. This could be considered race-baiting. It is not something one would associate with the usually careful – contrasted with her hubby – Hillary, so it seems to be a part of her ongoing scorched earth set of tactics to somehow pull the Dem nomination out of a hat.

Dr. Larry Sabato spins it for Hillary. Read On…

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Posted at 6:39am on May 7, 2008 MI MORNING UPDATE: Sen. McCain completes first of two stops in Mich this week, Dems split Indiana and North Carolina wins

By saul anuzis

181 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

CLINTON WINS INDIANA…OBAMA WINS NORTH CAROLINA…the race is on and the Democrats don’t have a nominee. It looks like they are heading towards their convention in Denver. We’ll be ready for either or…a clear choice…McCain v some liberal, out of touch, big spending, higher taxing, cut and run Democrat!

McCAIN PROMISED CONSERVATIVE JUDGES…addressing the center-right coalition in America, John McCain committed to appoint mainstream conservative judges.

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Posted at 1:18pm on May 4, 2008 The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review

Obama, Hillary, and Dean, oh my

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Preface:

On FOX News Sunday Howard Dean compared the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to Willie Horton, and accused the Republicans of race-baiting, hatred, and divisiveness for mentioning him. Host Chris Wallace countered that Obama had said that Wright was a legitimate issue, and Dean distanced himself from his future-nominee: "He can say what he wants; I'm going to say what I want."

Next on FNS, former DNC bosses Joe Andrew and Terence McAuliffe argued on the margins but agreed that they would have a great candidate this fall. Andrew predicted Obama victories in both North Carolina and Indiana, while Terence refused to forecast.

On TW, Hillary again made her case to her former employee, George Stephanopoulos.

Obama went on NBC's Meet the Press, where host Tim Russert spent 14-minutes gently questioning him about Jeremiah Wright. He said that Wright is retiring and just likes the spotlight.

On FTN, House Dem Whip James Clyburn told host Bob Schieffer that there will not be the riots in Denver which Doug Wilder had predicted; Clyburn, who has backed no one, said that the superdelegates should not overturn the will of the voters.

Next on FTN, Doug Wilder said that he had not predicted a riot in Denver if the nomination were stolen from Obama; rather, he said he had predicted a "riotous convention." Evan Bayh asserted that Hillary and Obama would work together this fall.

On LE, host Wolf Blitzer talked to Governors Bill Richardson of New Mexico (Obama surrogate) and Mike Easley of North Carolina (Hillary surrogate). Easley thinks the Dem race could run through the convention in Denver, while Richardson thinks such an outcome would be bad for the Democratic Party.

In a very short interview, Ron Paul told Blitzer that he's still in the GOP race because he is still generating enthusiasm and money, and he wants to get out of Iraq now.

The show-by-show review is beneath the fold. …

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Posted at 8:09am on May 3, 2008 The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - a preview

By Mark Kilmer

For Sunday, June 5, 2008

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to the increasingly lost and incoherent Howard Dean, still boss of the DNC but not of me. Then he'll have neo-Obama acolyte Joe Andrews, the one-time DNC boss; Hillary's campaign chairperson Terence McAuliffe, also a former DNC boss; and McCain campaign advisor Carly Fiorina.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos acts as a campaign commercial for Hillary live from Indianapolis, with questions also from the audience. No YouTube. [The little frownie emoticon would go here.]

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert is doing his program live from Indianapolis, spending his hour speaking with Obama.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer has Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, still a Hillary groupie; South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn, who's into Obama; and Obama supporter Douglas "Riots in Denver" Wilder.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Lindsey Graham; Governors. Mike Easley of North Carolina (Hillary sycomphant) and Bill Richardson of New Mexico (Barry's fool); former Clinton (Bill) labor secretary Robert Reich, an supporter of Barry; and his usual cast of thousands.

= = = = =

I bet, but I do not know for certain, that Hillary acts as if she were born in Greensboro (or at least Winston-Salem). Barry might just suggest that Reverend Wright is getting a little older, hanging out with a young and clever crowd, and probably needs a lobotomy.

Nevertheless, I wish Steph and Russert would open their interviews to YouTube.

We could do without the DNC piling on FNS, but at least Carly Fiorina will return things to perspective.

Schieffer and Blitzer are sticking with the surrogates.

This Dem race will be over eventually, though it might be a while. I expect Hillary will lay down her arms within a month after the Denver nominating convention goes for Obama.

I'll watch this and write it down for you tomorrow.

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Posted at 3:53pm on Apr. 29, 2008 Hillary Leads McCain by Nine! (She won't be the nominee, though.)

Barry writes off wright, just like a politician being a politician.

By Mark Kilmer

There have been some great posts here at RedState this week, but I have to interrupt with a simple, glaring fact. An AP-IPSOS poll released today has Hillary leading John McCain by nine-points amongst those surveyed.

Helped by independents, young people and seniors, Clinton gained ground this month in a hypothetical match with Sen. McCain, the GOP nominee-in-waiting. She now leads McCain, 50 percent to 41 percent, while Obama remains virtually tied with McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent.

Granted, it is an almost-meaningless post-Pennsylvania snapshot of a moment-in-time, but it gives Hillary and Mark Penn/Geoff Garin and Terence McAuliffe another excuse to keep bleeding on the Obama campaign. She is probably the Democrat with the best chance to defeat the war hero during wartime, but she is not going to be the nominee. Period. The superdelegates won't be seen to "steal the election from Obama," as that will bring us riots in Denver amongst the delegates, not just the lefty protesters outside.

Obama has his own problems.

There's a little more below the fold.

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Posted at 8:17am on Apr. 10, 2008 Losing credibility much?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

The MSM has just discovered what we've known for months now here in the real world.  The way the Democrats are behaving in Michigan lately is A) not so good and B) could cost them at the polls in November.  For Pete's sake, a recent Rasmussen poll put Republican John McCain ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama here in the Wolverine State, a State that hasn't gone red since 1988.  That's 20 years.  That's longer than a good portion of Right Michigan readers have even been alive.  

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Posted at 5:24pm on Apr. 6, 2008 Top Ten Things You'll Never Hear Me Say (Or Sing)

OPEN THREAD

By absentee

Time for another Sunday Afternoon Top Ten List Open Thread. Add your own suggestions for things we'd never hear you say (or sing).

10. Did you watch Olbermann last night?
9. (in aswer to #10) No, but I have it TiVo'd.
8. I'll have a Zima.
7. Could you put something decent on, Jessica?
6. We were at the Dixie Chicks concert and ...

Read on, number 1 even has video! (I'm so 2008)

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Posted at 8:29am on Apr. 4, 2008 Welcome to the Michigan Democrat Party-- Please leave your principles at the door

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton gave up on Michigan about three-hundred days ago.  The Michigan House Democrats gave up on Michigan when they went on a two-week Easter vacation back on March 20th, walking off the job with only a few calendar days left to get something done to avoid the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Michigan voters.

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Posted at 3:59am on Mar. 26, 2008 The Most Daring Liars

By absentee

What does it take to be a lying Democrat? Oh, I know what you are thinking, "but I repeat myself," and hey, I'm with you. What I'm talking about, though, is what exactly does it take to be called one? What to you have to say, as a Democrat, to get even Bill O'Reilly to say you lied, not misspoke?

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Posted at 4:42pm on Mar. 5, 2008 Hillary's hidden tax returns harm Barry and the Dems in November

'T is a great time to have a straight-talking national hero topping the ticket.

By Mark Kilmer

Let's hear it for John McCain! Check it out:

"In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns, Hillary Clinton has made the false case in this campaign that she is more electable because she has been fully vetted," the memo stated. "When it comes to her personal finances, Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her taxes returns denies the media and the American people the opportunity to even begin that process."

And the memo is right. And the memo comes from Camp Barry.

David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief strategist, also said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday that Clinton has a history of non-disclosure and is the least-vetted candidate in the presidential race.

(Hillary's peeps, Howard Wolfson really, has said that she'd release them on April 15. This was on ABC's This Week, Sunday.)

But after this is over, as I've posited, the new-inevitable will be so: McCain will face Barry anyway. So why does this matter?

Just do please Read More…

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Posted at 9:08pm on Mar. 4, 2008 Bill Richardson: out on a limb

The New Mexico governor and Clintonista is still a figure of fun.

By Mark Kilmer

It looks like New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who refused to endorse anyone on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, might be ready to call the Dem race after this evening.

Marc Ambinder offers this:

Per Howard Fineman on MSNBC, Bill Richardson is telling advisers that should Hillary Clinton win Ohio and Texas, the Democratic race is "wide open." Should Barack Obama win, "it's over."

Clinton (Hillary) could win Texas and Ohio this evening and not dent her delegate deficit, gov, but nice beard.

It's over. Electoral math is not that tricky.

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Posted at 10:24am on Feb. 26, 2008 What Are Friends For?

Hope! Change! Change! Hope!

By streiff

We all wondered when it would happen.

For eight long dark years we scratched our heads in amazement as the national media shamelessly boosted the Bugtussle Camelot cum county fair that was the Clinton administration. Why, we wondered, did the reflexively snobbish, upwardly mobile, good government types who tend to populate newsrooms give a pass to the grifters who turned the White House into a Bransonized Versailles? We still don't have the answer to that, but as of today we have a good idea that this unlikely romance is over.

Read on.

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Posted at 8:32am on Jan. 15, 2008 Could Clinton win 80% of the vote without locking in a single delegate? YES!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day... did you vote yet?  Then what are you sitting around reading a blog for?  Go.  Vote.  Forthwith.  Then come back.  I'll wait...

~twiddling thumbs~

~whistling~

~pacing room~

~looking at wrist pretending there's a watch there~

Back?  Awesome.  You may have been one of the first to vote today but you certainly won't be the last.  Early projections vary but all expect the primary election to draw around 1.5 million people.  That's about a 20% voter turnout when you do the math.  In 2000, the last time the State had a presidential primary we drew about 1.4 million so you can do the math on that one.  Of course back then there was only a GOP contest.  And as a group of lawmakers from metro-Detroit continue to point out in the press and via advertising and a grassroots ground game, there is very much a Democrat contest this year as well.

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Posted at 3:08pm on Jan. 14, 2008 Democrat Dementia

We're fixing Iraq because they know we're leaving

By haystack

Hillary Clinton is a lot of things, but brilliant just never seems to make it to the short list. Crafty, cagey, resilient, exonerated (err-I mean un-charged) criminal perhaps, bold-faced liar even...but she ain't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

So it came as no surprise to me that she would say so many idiotic things on Meet the Press this Sunday past. Dumb though this woman is, I must say Hillary Clinton's narcissistic naivete should scare the bloody hell out of everyone. The woman...seriously...needs counseling.

This week's trainwreck moment came regarding Iraq. When asked by Russert

"[i]f General Petraeus says, Senator, in September you called the surge the suspension of belief. It has worked, and you know it's worked, you can see on the ground. I'm saying to you, Senator, or president-elect Clinton, don't destroy Iraq. It's working, the surge is working. Keep troops there just a few more months to get this reconciliation complete"

the political savant that IS Hillary!™ gave us this little gem of genius [emphasis mine]:

The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin withdrawing our troops in January of 2009 is a big factor, as it is with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, those of us on the Democratic side. It is a big factor in pushing the Iraqi government to finally do what they should have been doing all along.

In other words, Hill babes...the more Democrats fight against a thing...vilify, attack, discourage and disregard...the more likely it becomes that said "thing" will ultimately succeed? I got that right, darlin'?

Hillary is claiming responsibility for Iraqi political reconciliation by making sure they know she means to pull the plug on...

wait for it...

American support for Iraqi political reconciliation. You just can't make this stuff up people.

Get out the popcorn, and let's work through this beauty below the fold...

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