Friday, June 18, 2010

Hillbuzz won't support Obama, even if Hillary is his VP

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Sally Quinn and other Democrats are starting to push for Obama to replace Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton as his vice president sometime after the midterm elections. Their Plan B is for the two to switch jobs, with Jovial Joe -- who has suggested that Iraq be partitioned along ethnic-religious lines and that we give Iran a check for $200 million ("no strings attached") to try to buy the mullahs' friendship -- becoming Secretary of State. Clueless Quinn includes among her "reasons" for the cockamamie idea:
Clinton also appeals to independents, but importantly, she would neutralize the effect of Sarah Palin. Whatever Palin came up with, Hillary could best her -- and the Tea Party crowd as well. The Republicans would lose their "year of the woman" argument.
How do Republicans lose the "mama grizzlies" argument if an unprecedented number of conservative women become governors, senators and congresspeople? Does Quinn seriously believe that Hillary Clinton being shuffled into the vice presidency will somehow cancel out record numbers of conservative women being empowered at all levels of government?

This goofy notion being floated by Quinn and other muddled thinkers shows just how desperate the left has become, as Obama sinks slowly into the oil-soaked Gulf of Mexico. It also clearly demonstrates how afraid they are of a possible Palin candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination. But if many Clinton supporters are like the Hillbuzz crew, Plan B is doomed:
We know why Clinton didn’t hit Obama harder, because the threat against the Clintons was that Team Obama would nuke them with not just the race card, but a full-on race war against the Clinton brand in the black community, permanently alienating them from a base they needed to win back the White House. As we keep telling you, Clinton’s hands were always tied in this, because if Obama and his black surrogates actually mobilized the black voter bloc against Hillary…and kept that mobilized against her in the general election, she would have lost the presidency in her one shot at the big job…and Obama would have just gone on to become the nominee in 2012 after her defeat.

Now, John McCain has never explained why HE didn’t hit Obama with everything that was out there on him, considering blacks were going to vote for Obama no matter what…so perhaps threatening race wars was what Team Obama did behind the scenes to McCain to tie his hands.

Governor Palin wanted to hammer Obama nine ways to Sunday, but was restrained by McCain. For the record, this is one reason there’s no wonder in the world that we so strongly support this woman…and believe she is the only one out there who can and will defeat Obama in 2012. She will be restrained by NO ONE when it’s her campaign, and she will pull no punches. Run, Sarah, run.

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Frankly, there is just nothing in the world that could happen to make us ever support an Obama presidential campaign, because we do not support having this inexperienced, fumbling, effete, America-hating socialist as president under any circumstances. He is bad for this country. Every day, he damages our nation more and more. If his agenda is not to tank the economy and ruin America, then his incompetence is making that happen any way. Either way, he should be a one-termer.
Hillbuzz says that if Hillary Clinton became either Obama's VP or his VP nominee, she would lose the considerable respect they have for the former first lady and New York senator. Further, they believe that the only way to rescue the republic from Obama's incompetence is to defeat him in 2012, no matter who his running mate happens to be at the time:
Our goal is to make Governor Palin the Republicans’ nominee in 2012 because we believe she is the only person we can see on the field who has what it takes to save this country and get our nation back on track. We believe in her more and more every day, and love the fact she has the guts to do a lot of the things we wish Hillary Clinton had done in 2008 to Obama…but was restrained from doing because of all of Obama’s race threats.

There aren’t enough words to tell you how refreshing and thrilling it is to see that the Governor is not afraid of anyone, and is willing and able to be a vocal thorn in Obama’s golden, laureled crown slowly driving him insane by speaking the truth about him in every way she can.
Team Hillbuzz, like so many Sarah Palin supporters, back her because she has "the guts, strength, and determination to keep reminding Americans this would-be emperor has no clothes."

- JP

1 comment:

  1. Not going to happen for several reasons.

    First, everyone would see it as a desperation move - a Hail Mary. It might give Obama a bump in the polls for a month or two, but will quickly dissipate. Nobody cares who the VP is. The focus wil remain on the President's performance.

    Second, Obama can't stand the Clintons. He would rather go down to defeat or not run in 2012 than advance the Clintons' political agenda and be beholden to them. Moreover, he would constantly have to be on the lookout for Hillary stabbing him in the back for the next 2 or 6 years. There is no way he would want to go through that and his large ego couldn't stand it.

    Third, bringing Clinton on board would help him somewhat with independents. However, it would hurt him even more with the "nutroots" wing of the party who absolutely hate the Clintons. If he wants to have any chance in 2012 he has to have a untied and energized left wing base. Clinton would just turn them off even more. He would be far better off dumping Biden and making Howard Dean his VP for 2012.

    Fourth, its not in Clinton's iterest to do this as it will not help her be President - her only objective - she doesn't give a crap about being the first woman VP. If the ticket loses in 2012 her political career is over, as Dems. will blame her for the loss instead of Obama (just like what happened with Palin). Even if she helped Obama win in 2012 there is no guarantee she would get the nomination in 2016. After 8 years of Obama people will want a change. The Republicans will be favored and the Dems. to be competitive will want to nominate a candidate not previously associated with the Obama administration. Hillary would be toast.

    If Hillary wants to be President, her best course of action is to leave government after the mid terms and go into the private sector, head up a company or investment bank or major charity (eg. The Red Cross) and get some executive experience, hope the Republicans win in 2012, and plan a run for President in 2016.

    Sally Quinn's idea makes no political sense for either Obama or Clinton. She should confine herself to the only thing she has a talent for - planning and reporting on Washington parties and gossip.

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