To me, though, this sounds like Rudy Giuliani's Florida strategy. Hang around for a while, bypass the early states, and win big in Florida to get back in the race. It didn't work for him, though, because the race passed him by. The same thing could happen to Hillary, if Obama is able to build a lot of momentum between now and then, turning into an unstoppable liberal force.
Of course, I think the Clintons still have a few tricks (and fake tears) up their sleeves.
Hillary is counting on Texas? Has she been to Texas?
ReplyDeleteI guess there are a few Democrats there.
ReplyDeleteAlso, she'll probably be in your town soon. You should go check her out.
Clearly, it's too late for Hillary to pull a Full Guiliani (it deserves capitalization for being the WORST STRATEGY EVER). She's already got a bunch of delegates, and the race is down to just two people, and look at Super Tuesday--Obama got more states, but she got the big ones, so she came out ahead.
ReplyDeleteNot that I want her to succeed. I'd be perfectly fine with her pulling a Modified Guiliani because A) she's got a worse shot in the general election and B) I *heart* Obama.
Also, can you explain to me why Romney dropped out? I thought people had just started to realize that he was their one choice if they wanted Not McCain--what was his deal? Again, not that I'm sorry, because Romney scared the bejeezus out of me. But doesn't Romney seem to have pulled a Modified Guiliani, in that he just gave up?
Is this a comment length record?
I don't think Rudy's strategy was so bad, since he wasn't going to win Iowa or SC no matter what, but he allowed himself to disappear from the headlines in January, so people kind of moved past him.
ReplyDeleteIf Romney was going to be the conservative alternative, he would have had to have shown it on Super Tuesday. Part of the reason he didn't is because Huck is still in it, and there are too many moron GOP voters that chose him. So he pretty much had no chance, especially with the delegate count the way it was.
So, Craig, since your endorsement has pretty much insured that the candidate will almost immediately drop out of the race, why don't you just slap a Hucakbee sticker on your car and call it a day?
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In all seriousness, why don't you like Huck? I know why I don't (let me count the ways...), but he's, as rachel said, your only choice for Not McCain.
Two more things:
ReplyDelete1. I tried to fix my misspelling of whatshisname (Huckabee) but the blogger gods wrestled the comment from my hands too quickly.
2. I think you (Craig) should come up with a whole line of products called The Conservative Alternative. You could have sodas, clothing, vacation tours...Think of the possibilities!
McCain has it wrapped up. Even my endorsement can't stop him now.
ReplyDeleteHuckabee is only conservative socially, and to me, that's less important than economic and national security conservatism. He lacks the former completely, and seems to know nothing of the latter. So he's more problematic to me than McCain is.
I've heard and read that the Hillary and Obama camps are so divided that if Hillary wins the nomination, Obama followers will vote for McCain and vice versa!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like all of the candidates are polarizing in some way or another. People don't seem to want to vote "for" a candidate, they want to vote "against" another.
I don't think that Hilary/Obama superhatred is true. There may be some independents who've been voting for Obama who'd switch to McCain, but most Democrats I know really, really, really, really, really, REALLY want a Democrat to win.
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