Hillary Clinton and McCain both understand the gravity of Independent voters. The last thing McCain needs is a stampede.

I am taking note that Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain are running a squeeze play considering the requirements each face.

I also think that where the lines of power merge, that the “collective” does not want the Obama “power collective” gaining any ground.

A power struggle is going on.

The context nay have been different, in that Karl was aware Fitzgerald was working on Rezko and the Govenor of Illinios.

I have always been curious why they ran Alan Keyes.

PatRacimora, It was Karl in the candy store with the Taffy,
Obama like a bull in a china shop who refuses to own up for the broken plates.
Very funny and on point. You and Frank should talk.

And that attitude is exactly why, even if he gets the nomination, Obama will never win the GE. His definition of “Democrats that matter” does not include women, the working class, older people, gun owners, people of faith, small town or rural citizens, people whose homes are being foreclosed on, union members, GLBTs, and anyone else who doesn’t fully understand and endorse His Wonderfulness.

He’ll never get my vote. I respect and admire Bill and Hillary Clinton, but not even their endorsement will get me to vote for this jackass.

Since I am a member of several of the above categories, I am already well aware that I do not matter to The Precious. But the future of this country matters to me, and I will never do anything that would help place him in control of it.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=hrc

Rise Hillary Rise

Answer: McCain has read the polls showing that 25% or more of Hillary supporters will not support BHO in the general. He wants to welcome as many of those supporters into his camp as possible, and you don’t do that by trashing Hillary, possibly shooting her the bird, etc.

If I were a Republican strategist (I am one for the Democrats), this is exactly what I would be doing right now.

Bingo! Right on! You nailed it! Amen!

But that won’t make one damn bit of difference among the target voters (independents, “Reagan democrats,” soccer moms) in places like OH, PA, MI, FL, & MO.

When Obama starts talking like a Republican (see my comment above), it seals his fate as a waffling leftist who will say anything to get elected.

The only unanswered question is how much does an Obama at the top of the ticket affect the down ballot races?

1. Obama starts talking like a Republican (appointing Luger & Hagel to cabinet, making statements that his foreign policy will be more like Reagan and G, H. W. Bush than Clinton and G. W. Bush [whatever that means], telling parents they need to stay home with their kids, etc.]).

2. The MSM starts carrying negative stories about Obama (Wright, small town dissing remark, or what can be aptly described as Rove’s candy store).

The answer to your question is in item #2. The really interesting question is how long will it take the latte leftists to realize that they have been bamboozled (as in item #1 above). Given what we know about the power of the human mind to rationalize, I suspect it will take awhile.

PS It took me a while to post this message since I was laughing so hard at the cartoon. You all should put up some sorta warning system when something like this goes up so I don’t injury myself laughing so hard. Of course, once I stopped laughing and the message sunk in, it was quite depressing, you know.

Obama trained his eye on rival Clinton at subsequent stops on his train tour today, accusing her of practicing “slash-and-burn, say-anything, do-anything, special-interest-driven politics.”

A claim that his campaign appeared to undermine when they held a press-conference between train stops with former military veterans who had served in Bosnia to discuss Clinton’s claim that she had landed in the middle of sniper fire, reprising an argument that Obama had criticized just two days ago as the type of “gotcha games” politics that eroded the quality of the national political dialogue.

In the call former Gen. Walter Stewart claimed Clinton didn’t have the “moral authority” to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, because she had lied about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia and then joked about it on Jay Leno.

“We can make the assumption here that the honored dead within the Tomb of the Unknown was killed by a sniper,” Stewart said. “Imagine the lack of moral authority she has now to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day.”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/19/922555.aspx

He has the “moral authority” of a slumlord … oh that’s right, he is the moral equivalent of a slum lord.