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2007-10-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2007-10-12 07:02|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I'm skeptical. The rumor is that he has had an affair with a woman!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-12 07:56|| 2007-10-12 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't believe it. He'll never find anyone prettier then him...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-12 10:31|| 2007-10-12 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3
One of Hillary Clinton's lawyers from Whitewater was in charge of reviewing copy at the Enquirer?! What are the odds of that?
HIGH!
It fits the slander MO of the Clinton teams...

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-12 11:48|| 2007-10-12 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait, this can't be Hillary's doings! I mean, she didn't care about Bill's *multiple* infidelities, and the general Democratic voter doesn't care about "what's private" anyways, so it couldn't be her! She'd pay no attention to private matters at all, much less bring them up in a campaign.
(/channeling Daily Kook kiddies)

Posted by BA 2007-10-12 12:37|| 2007-10-12 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If Hillary did it--accet on the if part--it would be to forestall the "Iowa murder-suicide" scenario.

In '04, when Howard Dean was riding high, Dick Gephardt went heavily negative on Howard in the week before the caucus in an attempt to drive Dean's numbers down. It worked, in the sense that Dean lost ground and finished back in the pack--but it also made Gephardt's poll numbers crash because the negative ads made him look ugly by association ("I'm Dick Gephardt and I approved this message."). Political writers started calling it "Gephardt's murder-suicide."

The only way to stop Hillary! would be for someone with enough money for a big media buy to go negative hard on her. Of the candidates who actually have the money to do that--Kucinch, Dodd, Richardson, etc. don't count--only Edwards has the temprament to pull it off. (Just try to imagine Obama doing a negative ad. It's not his style. It'd be worse than Dukakis driving a tank.) If Edwards craters before Iowa, the threat is greatly reduced.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-12 13:38|| 2007-10-12 13:38|| Front Page Top

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