Posted by
Steve on Monday, January 14, 2008 1:24:31 PM
There is a tempest in a teapot going on in the Democrat Party. They have their knickers in a knot over a comment by Bill Clinton. He called the Obama campaign a “fairy tale”. Of course, the race lords had to have a field day with that one. They were outraged. Bill Clinton has been back pedaling on that one since he made the comment last week.
To try and deflect some of the criticism that is coming their way, the Clinton machine is trying to blame the Obama campaign. The Clinton team is trying to portray Mrs. Clinton as the victim and Obama as the cruel attacker. In the Democrat party, it is better to be the victim than the aggressor. Democrats hate aggression. They are afraid of anyone that shows aggression. They will try to appease the aggressor, unless they can make the aggressor feel small. Within the Democrat party, that is what they do.
What we have in this situation is the Clinton’s playing the race card. They are saying that Obama is black and because he is black, he cannot be elected President. The Clinton’s also play the gender card by bringing up Mrs. Clinton being female every time they bring up Obama’s being black. They portray her being female as a plus and being black as a minus. That way they can deflect any gender criticism that Obama may happen to throw their way.
In all this, Obama has been remarkably silent. He has let the race baiters, Sharpton and Jackson, do all the heavy lifting. It puts him above the fray and makes him look Presidential. Mrs. Clinton is not looking too good by being in the middle of this ridiculous spat. Mrs. Clinton is the one saying she will not bring up race and gender and then in the next sentence or two, bringing up race and gender.
On the Republican side, many of the candidates are running short of campaign cash. Rudy Giuliani’s top campaign staff has decided not to take any salaries this month to help him win Florida. That way he will have more campaign cash to purchase ads in Florida. The other campaigns are low also. Commercials are short for all the campaigns, except for Romney. Romney has decided to put all of his eggs in Michigan. He wants to win Michigan in the worst way. He has the campaign cash to compete in all the states, but has decided to concentrate on Michigan until tomorrow. After tomorrow, I expect him to start advertising in Florida and other states again. He is the only one who can financially compete with the Democrats.
The Michigan primary is tomorrow. The latest poll I saw had Romney leading McCain by 5%. I expect Mitt Romney to win in Michigan tomorrow. McCain has said things that will not help him in Michigan this past week. Romney has said all the right things in Michigan. I expect him to win by 8-9% over McCain. The Democrat primary is just a beauty contest as there are no delegates at stake. Mrs. Clinton will win. The only thing is by how much. Some people are asking that people vote non-committed. If they do in large enough numbers, that would be embarrassing for Mrs. Clinton. She needs to take over 60% of the vote to look good. Anything short of 60% and it will almost be considered a loss for her.