Comments on: Prop No Longer Useful, Thrown Away

By: Gaius

Gaius — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:08:08 +0000

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Is that the talking point that will make the rounds? Gee, do I rate a trial balloon?

Talk to any cat person and ask what they think of someone abandoning a cat under all but the most extreme circumstances. Political expediency is not going to cut it with them. Period.

I can see this now. Socks will be tearfully reunited with Hillary. She’ll hold socks up to her face and Socks will savage her. It will be a “Checkers” speech with an evil twist.

No matter how this is spun, it cost Hilary a few votes, bet on it. And with a 50% “would NEVER vote for” against her, every vote she loses hurts.

UPDATED: Incidentally, Matt, going around and dropping the same comment in multiple blogs via cut and paste makes you look like an astroturfer dispensing talking points. But you knew that, right?

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:57:12 +0000

Any outrage, feigned or otherwise, on this matter is quite ridiculous. Someone (Hillary Clinton) who owned a pet (Socks the cat) realized that, for whatever reasons (she’d be spending time in Washington, away from her home; her husband would be spending time traveling the country and working in his Harlem office), she could no longer keep it and so she gave it to someone (her husband’s former secretary) that could care more adequately care for it. Why is this an issue? It’s not like she had it killed or threw it down the river or something. It’s certainly not like Socks went to some park in Washington, D.C. and committed suicide.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:34:49 +0000

I’m quite sure that the Clinton war room is busy as heck figuring how to spin this and that the usual suspects will all be bleating in unison by this time tommorow with virtually identically worded posts. Which will eventually end up, word-for-word in the MSM.

(None of which will generate a drop of sympathy from true cat lovers.)

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:25:16 +0000

Anyone know the fate of the cat? I think HRC can plausibly argue that her work/travel schedule would be such that she would not have time for a pet. Therefore the best thing for the cat would be to give it a new home. On the other hand, if her secretary just took the cat to the vet or local animal shelter and had it put to sleep, that would be an entirely different matter.

By: Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:07:28 +0000

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup…

Happy Sunday to all! It is another fantastic day in the U.S.A. Birds are chirping, the Sun is shining, and it is a couple hours till football. Of course, we are having a bit of a drought here in North Carolina, and would love to be able to turn the sp…

By: William Teach

William Teach — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:39:14 +0000

Now that Mel Martinez is stepping down as RNC Chairman, hopefully the new on will have some cajones, and attack Hillary and the Dems with stories like this, and remember them next year.

Where’s PETA when you need them?

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:13:16 +0000

I dunno – people have long memories about this sort of thing – it could really hurt.

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:56:25 +0000

Good points all Gaius, but it is 13 months to the election. Will this be long forgotten by then? Someone will need to keep this story alive. Think the MSM will?