Once again Democrats must hold their breath until the primary in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania next month to see if they can get a nominee to take on GOP nominee John McCain. Hillary Clinton came away with two important victories last night in Texas and Ohio. While she did not make too much headway in the delegate chase, Clinton’s victories again illuminated the fact that Obama can not win in the big populous states. Not being able to win in the bid ones is troubling for a party looking to make some big red states blue.
Clinton was able to win last night because somebody finally told Marc Penn to shut the fuck up, and the campaign went after Obama hard on his ability to be commander in chief. Up until these primaries Clinton played nice with Obama. Now that she has begun to attack his qualifications people are stopping to take a minute before drinking the Obama cool aid of hope with no substance. The press that has done nothing but shower love on Obama has suddenly turned on him. Suddenly the mainstream media is asking hard questions of Obama and he is having a tough time answering them. Not a good sign for what promises to be a vicious general election against the GOP.
While it would be great to have a unified Democratic Party right now ready to take on John McCain, it is clear that many Democrats throughout the country are not quite ready to turn the keys to the car over to the new kid. Next stop in seven weeks is Pennsylvania. It will be a grueling time and both Clinton and Obama will have to hit each other hard. This has negatives for it gives McCain ammo, but at the same time we need the toughest candidate to make sure a Democrat enters the White House as president in January 2009.
What Democrats must understand is that unity will come and that no matter who gets the nomination it is paramount that the entire party unite behind our candidate to defeat John McCain.
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Comment by tsumbra — March 5, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
I’m surprised you left out the vast influence of His Greatest of Greatnesses, The All Powerful, All Knowing, All Caring Rush Limbaugh (who’s cat I’m not worthy to feed). He told repubs to cross over and vote for Hil! Did you know that? As a lark perhaps, they did so, giving Hil the win in Tx.
Exit polls show that three of four in Tx that decided how to vote in the last thirty-six hours decided to pull the lever for Hill. This shows the sweeping influence of His Magnificance, may he live long and prosper.
Comment by grimgold — March 5, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Grim-
First your love for the Vulgar Pig boy is truly frightening, however we all have our quirks. According to exit polls there was 1 Rethug for every 10 Democrats that voted in the Democratic primary. Hardly much of a push. Also exit polls show Obama got most of those votes.
Comment by N — March 5, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Interesting to note Obama currently is leading in delegates and popular vote (overall) but Clinton is suggesting she would have him as her veep. That’s the arrogance that allowed Obama to overtake her in the first place. Well at least it looks like my late primary vote will matter.
Comment by greyhawk — March 6, 2008 @ 5:14 am
N wrote: “What Democrats must understand is that unity will come and that no matter who gets the nomination it is paramount that the entire party unite behind our candidate to defeat John McCain.”
Don’t be too sure about that unity, N — Tuesday I talked to some Dem voters who were appalled at Hillary’s Republican-style hardball ads and are rethinking whether they can vote for her in November. Another point is she’s turning off the new voters Obama has brought in that she’ll need in the general election with these attacks. She may win the nomination, but it may well be a Pyrrhic victory as voters decide on the basis of experience and leadership that they want Cap’n McCain the military man answering the 3:AM phone call over the nice Mrs. Shirley Partridge.
Comment by RS Janes — March 6, 2008 @ 8:06 am