That Sinking Feeling
The New York Daily News reports that longtime Hillary Clinton supporters are beginning to lose hope. The campaign continues to desperately rearrange the deck chairs on the USS Titanic Inevitableness but the passengers are beginning to look for life jackets.
WASHINGTON - Finally, there's some happy news for Hillary Clinton: The most abysmal stretch of the primary season for her limping candidacy is over. Unfortunately, the damage may be irreparable.
It's not just that Clinton has been on a February losing streak to Barack Obama, catapulting him to a close but clear lead in delegates and denying her life-giving momentum.
Still worse for the beleaguered Clinton high command, Obama's momentum hasn't shown any signs of sputtering. In fact, it's still building.
"I've been there trying to turn around losing campaigns," a true-blue Clinton loyalist painfully acknowledged Tuesday. "When nothing you do is working, you get desperate. This is starting to feel desperate."
Clinton surrogates have tossed eggs everywhere, hoping something would stick. They've called Obama a wimp for refusing to debate in Wisconsin - a classic loser's ploy.
They've accused him of breaking pledges and being an empty-suited orator.
The attacks bombed - especially the lighter-than-air charges that Obama plagiarizes key portions of his campaign spiel.
Insiders say that Clinton herself remains undaunted. I'd say it sounds like her supporters, however, are getting that sinking feeling that they backed the wrong horse - and need life jackets.
By syn, Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 9:24 am
One thing about living in a predominately progressive environment, how easily progressives will stab their friends in the back if it means getting one step closer to the VIP room.
By martian, Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 10:33 am
Her campaign isn’t dead yet. Polls show she’s leading by large margins of almost 2-1 in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. If she wins all three of those she’ll be right back in the lead in the delegate count. Then, if she succeeds in getting the Michigan and Florida delegates recognized - both states in which she won big, that will give her the momentum and, probably, the lead in super delegates. She could still win this thing.
By Yuri, Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 10:44 am
according to realclearpolitics.com which averages a lot of different polls, she has 52% support in PA, 53% in OH and 50% in TX. I assume undecideded will not break for her in large numbers. These polls do not mean much, of course, an NH showed, but Obama’s performance with white males in WI was quite encouraging…
By martian, Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 3:09 pm
There’s nothing encouraging about any supposedly reasnably intelligent adult being duped into supporting Obama. The man is all talk, no ideas; all sizzle, no steak. He is campaigning on the promise of some nebulous "change" that is never specified as to what is going to change when. The fact that people are flocking to this guy in messianic numbers is actually prety scay.
By Yuri, Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 9:45 pm
scary? Dunno. It appears that the only Democrats choosing Clinton are the ones who have not finished High school. One would think that they are the one who are easily duped. I actually do not think Obama is all sizzle.I watched his carer when I still lived in Illinois. He had very sensible ideas then and I don’t think he suddenly lost them when running for president. But I do believe that this country needs to stop the trench war politics, and to me Obama is the best person to achieve that.
By martian, Thursday, 21 February , 2008 @ 9:46 am
"I watched his carer when I still lived in Illinois. He had very sensible ideas then and I don’t think he suddenly lost them when running for president."
Obama was widely acknowledged, even by fellow Democrats and liberals, as the most liberal member of the Illinois assembly. Sensible ideas? All of his ideas are and were based on good old socialist ideals - time tested and time disproved. Maybe someone who grew up in the USSR doesn’t recognize stale, failed ideas when he sees them since he grew up with them being shoved down his throat.
As for his current campaign, the only thing he has actually proposed, so far, is a universal health plan that is neither "universal" or affordable. Other than that, he just keeps haroing on change, change, change - without specifying what he would change or when or how - SIZZLE.