Great Line from a GOP Political Consultant in Edsall HuffPo Piece on Who Would Be The Better General Election Candidate — Obama or Clinton
Posted by WLS
From this Thomas Edsall piece, we get the following great line courtesy of Alex Castellanos, who was a senior media consultant in both of George W. Bush’s campaigns and in Mitt Romney’s failed bid for the nomination:
Obama is the hope and future of the Democratic Party, not Hillary, and everyone knows it. He is the one bringing new energy and voters. He could be a Democratic Reagan, invigorating the party for 25 years. If the Clinton people knee-cap Obama, it would be like killing Santa Claus Xmas morning in front of the children. The children won’t forget or forgive.”
One of the better chuckles I’ve had recently in political prognostications.
He’s either Reagan or McGovern and they can’t tell which. That is the dilemma.
Comment by Mike K — 3/12/2008 @ 1:51 pm
Here’s my idea for an anti-Obama commercial:
tight crowd scene, applauding, women fainting.
Occasionally, over the sounds of applause, and swooning, can be heard Obama speaking (“We are who we’ve been waiting for” etc)
Big Caption: JOIN THE CULT
Comment by LarryD — 3/12/2008 @ 2:01 pm
If anyone could kill Santa Claus in front of children, Hillary could do it. She’s got the experience after 8 years in the White House …
Comment by SPQR — 3/12/2008 @ 2:24 pm
Hillary would kill Santa, claim self-defense, blame Santa for not providing health insurance at his workshop and have surrogates insinuate that Santa had an inappropriate relationship with Rudolf.
Look out Obama.
Comment by Perfect Sense — 3/12/2008 @ 2:43 pm
“Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
“Help me Obama-wan. You’re my only hope.”
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Repeat after me – “Tony Rezko and Obama’s violation of US Senate Rule 35.1(a)”
ethics.senate.gov/downloads/pdffiles/manual.pdf
Obamarama is toast
Comment by Horatio — 3/12/2008 @ 2:56 pm
Perfect Sense #4: That’s so funny you should put it on a bumper sticker or T-shirt or something.
Comment by DRJ — 3/12/2008 @ 2:59 pm
Horatio — the real test of how badly Hillary wants to be President is whether she will make an ethics complaint against Obama with the Senate Ethics Committee.
I think that’s her final card to play. IF nothing else looks like it will bring her the nomination — not Florida/Michigan, not the Superdelegates, nothing — then she could make an ethics complaint and really put the superdelegates in a bind because having a pending ethics complaint from a fellow Dem during the general election campaign would be pretty much the kiss of death for Obama.
Comment by WLS — 3/12/2008 @ 3:14 pm
I think she’ll find a surrogate to do it. She has too much baggage. Some Democratic supporter who is squeaky clean.
Or maybe even Joe Lieberman.
Comment by Horatio — 3/12/2008 @ 3:18 pm
“He’s either Reagan or McGovern …”
If you read McGovern’s last OpEd in the WSJ, you would swear that McGovern has become Reagan.
Nothing like having to survive in the private market to change your viewpoint.
Comment by Another Drew — 3/12/2008 @ 3:20 pm
Don’t know if this has been posted here yet, but I got a laugh out of a variation on the 3:00 AM Red Phone call ad:
Funny, but scary too.
Comment by JayHub — 3/12/2008 @ 3:22 pm
Another Drew,
I read McGovern’s op-ed and thought the same thing. He sounded positively conservative.
Comment by DRJ — 3/12/2008 @ 3:32 pm
It took that knucklehead over 30 years to realize how ridiculous his positions were. No need to feel bad for him. One might have got the clue when an ass like Nixon steamrolled him, but sadly, no.
Comment by JD — 3/12/2008 @ 3:39 pm