It's not really possible to give both these lines in one campaign. Try it and you'll flame out. So it's either a battle of the bases, or a tea-for-two tug of war over the middle groundlings. After the recent mugwumpery St Hill's people must be recalculating all this for '08: "do we continue the swing scene or ..."
Her state run this fall, already underway, must lead to a convincing win, or '08 for her morphs into oh, never.
So where's the stop-her-now spoilers?
True, there's the Green Party guy, Howie Hawkins, bless him. But wouldn't you think with all the anti-Hillary feeling among the liberal-schmiberelite, some better-funded, better-known somebody would be taking her on? Like, I dunno, Meryl Streep?
It ain't enough just to jilt Muppetissimo Joe, next door in nutmeggery land -- Hillary must meet the pillory this fall too.
Hell, she's dead in the water right now. A decent flank slasher could have her bleeding prog votes like a tomato can. Put up an out now celeb as a non partisan indy candidate, not even a third-party one, and lady Rodham can kiss '08 bye-bye.
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Nah. All Hilary would have to do is snap her fingers and the celeb army would collapse like marrionettes with cut strings. We'd invest our cash more wisely by just putting up a tip jar for Hawkins and the other Greens. Maybe we could have a bake sale, too.
Posted by ms_xeno | June 16, 2006 6:22 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 18:22
xeno i'll take it if
mister green jeans can
just knock off enough votes to make her look //damaged
send a message
hill u stink
maybe as bad as
a Con Ed smoke stack even
MY POINT ABOUT THIRD PARTY VS INDEPENDENT
ITS MY FIRM BELIEF
A PROTEST VOTE IS DRAWN BEST BY A ONE VOTE
ONE EVENT UPRISING
..LIKE OUT OF IRAQ NOW
OTHER THAN THIS THE KUSS OUGHTA SEEM NON DESCRIPT
BUT HEY ITS all academic if no line is availible except
the green line
and then hey get behind
hawkins and go for it
Posted by js paine | June 16, 2006 8:53 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 20:53
Vis-a-vis your first stanza, js: That's one of the reasons I had hoped Billmon/pseudo-Billmon, or any liberal with cache, really, would come back long enough to take a stand on the 3rd Party issue in the 2000 election: Did the "evil, extremist," branch of the Left provide the killing blow to poor old Gore's campaign or not ? Thing is, I'm never surprised when nobody answers, or when I wander onto some prominent liberal blog and the answer pretty much changes every day. These folks walk a tightrope between wanting the "evil, extremist" Left to serve as their scapegoat and not wanting to have to throw it so much as a single bone. So arguing both contradictory ideas at once is pretty much crucial for them.
Make no mistake, if Hawkins (Chretien, Zeese, et al) manage enough votes to "spoil" the race, that's what we'll get again:
"You horrid Leftists !! You ruined everything !!" coupled with
"You marginal ineffectual Leftists !! We don't have to give you anything !!"
Well, that or the blackout that currently exists against 3rd Party candidates in the land of Big Blogs will continue, as if the Greens had never existed at all...
Posted by ms_xeno | June 19, 2006 1:37 PM
Posted on June 19, 2006 13:37