Drudge says,
TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS
Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ETFacing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!
Apparently it’s “one top campaign insider” saying it.
Well, does Hillary’s campaign have enough money to carry her through SuperTuesday? Do the Clintons have a huge organization? Is she in the lead in several big states? Most importantly, Is Hillary going to give up her dream, everything she’s worked for in the last thirty-five years because she’s low in two states?
Yes. Yes. Yes. No.
Does she have a long record of using publicity to manipulate public opinion?
Yes indeed.
Ed thinks the Edwards campaign planted the story, but I go with Dan, instead:
One cannot be re-born until you die. What better way to do it than to plant the story of your demise, eventually pinning it on the underhanded dealings of a presumably noble competitor’s campaign? Nothing like sucking the wind out of your competitions headline grabbing success with a staged funeral that doesn’t take place. I don’t buy it at all.
I don’t, either.
I’m not a fortune teller but anyone who thinks Hillary’s going to fold because she’s low in a state with less than 2 million people is fooling themselves. She’s fired up and ready to bore us for a very long time.
UPDATE
Hillary Clinton = Martha Logan, except that
Martha’s also hot in a batshit crazy sort-of way, where Hillary’s not.
Fausta,
When I realized that Obama won in Iowa and when I news reports that indicate her continued slippage in the polls, I become very rational, aware and very mature and adult and all that tumbles forth from my lips is a hearty HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Now then…all better.
LK
LOL – Glad you got that off your chest!
Even if Obama wins tomorrow (or when Obama wins tomorrow), Hillary’s far from out of the race.
February 5 truly is the make or break day this year, when 22 states hold their primary contests.
Par for Hillary: the only thing about her that might tease me is the thought that she’d just go away.
dd (above) has it right, though. She has many reasons to stay in and stay compete. Even if, as in ’04, another Dem is nominated, she’ll want to be in the running in ’12 for another crack at the job.
And if she’s not nominated, she’ll be an interesting study: to see just how hard she tries – or doesn’t try – to get Obama elected. Just watch.
Oh yes – she’s staying. No way she’d just fold her tent and ride away into the sunset.
Rush said yesterday that the only way Hillary would leave the Presidential race is “in a straitjacket.”
Truer words were never spoken, even though signs of repudiation are gathering around her.