Hillary Was Sailing Along On Moonlight Bay, With Her Huge Lead . . . Until THIS

[Ben_Hecht]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/driver_licenses_for_undocument.html

. . . and ever since, the air's slowly escaped from the balloon, week by week . . .

JM and BO have danced around the issue skillfully . . . HRC tried to sound assertive, shooting from the hip, and got bit.

The Issue Of Death. Untouchable. Untreatable.

 

[Football_Bat]

That, like Terri Schiavo for Fredo, was the first crack in the veneer for each.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

That, like Terri Schiavo for Fredo, was the first crack in the veneer for each.

That -- and the charade surrounding the disingenuous Scooter -- were the first two sustained nudges down what has evolved into a very, very deep valley.

 

[Football_Bat]

Hillary thought she could draft off Eliot Spitzer's heat on this one.

Ooops.

Instead it gave Obama an opening ... even though Obama may have the exact same policy.

Which in my opinion is a smart policy. Yeah they're illegal, but if you know who they are and where they live, no problem. Don't disagree with that.

But Hill misjudged U.S. opinion big-time on this. As did Chimp Boy.

Muck Fark Penn.

Hill should've gone with a good ol' snake-faced swamp boy from the start.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Hillary thought she could draft off Eliot Spitzer's heat on this one.

Ooops.

Instead it gave Obama an opening ... even though Obama may have the exact same policy.

Which in my opinion is a smart policy. Yeah they're illegal, but if you know who they are and where they live, no problem. Don't disagree with that.

But Hill misjudged U.S. opinion big-time on this. As did Chimp Boy.

Muck Fark Penn.

Hill should've gone with a good ol' snake-faced swamp boy from the start.

I've met Carville. Really like him -- because he's one of the most naturally-curious people I've ever met. Always asking questions. I don't even hold his
wholly-irrational loyalty to HRC against him.

 

[markvid]

Ben, you do realize that link is from October?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Is it inconvenient of me to point out that, right now, the polls have her trailing by an eyelash in Texas and kicking all kids of ass in Ohio?
Yes, polls suck, and have sucked, this time around. But sometimes, they don't.

 

[OnTheRiver]

kicking all kids of ass in Ohio

If she's kicking the children of Ohio, I fear the public backlash may me immense.

 

[pressboxer]

kicking all kids of ass in Ohio

If she's kicking the children of Ohio, I fear the public backlash may me immense.

A post making fun of a typo has its own typo. Is this a great place or what?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Re: Hillary Was Sailing Along On Moonlight Bay, With Her Huge Lead . . . Until T

Damn, pressboxer, way to break the streak.

 

[Ace]

Re: Hillary Was Sailing Along On Moonlight Bay, With Her Huge Lead . . . Until T

Never underestimate how much racism there still is in the good ol' US of A.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Never underestimate how much racism there still is in the good ol' US of A.

And that's going to be the alibi?
Oh, this will be fun.

 

[Ace]

Never underestimate how much racism there still is in the good ol' US of A.

And that's going to be the alibi?
Oh, this will be fun.

I don't know from alibis.

I am talking about extremely negative reaction to any largesse bestowed on "illegal aliens."

 

[OnTheRiver]

Damn, pressboxer, way to break the streak.

****.

****.

****.

 

[Oz]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/driver_licenses_for_undocument.html

. . . and ever since, the air's slowly escaped from the balloon, week by week . . .

I don't think there's any one issue you can point to on Hillary's campaign for blowing this lead, as much as the mismanagement of her campaign and Obama gathering momentum the more everyone sees him.

 

[NightOwl]

Yeah, but as markvid pointed out, this was from October.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Ben, you do realize that link is from October?

Absolutely -- at which point she had a lead from Providence to Pasadena.
My point: it's steadily shrunk, since.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Buddy showed me this, the Falling Hillary game:

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/hillary.htm

 

[Boom_70]

I think her desmise started when she put on that fake southern drawl down in Selma. Death blow was Bill's performance in SC. It turned Clinton supporters into Obama supporters over night.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I think her desmise started when she put on that fake southern drawl down in Selma. Death blow was Bill's performance in SC. It turned Clinton supporters into Obama supporters over night.

She's always managed to talk the local talk. When she was doing time in Arkansas, you'd listen to her, close your eyes, and swear she was a native.

Have said this before, and still agree . . . 42's disingenuousness the evening following the South Carolina business has hastened the decline.