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Explaining Hillary’s spending
WASHINGTON — Agents
for Sen. Hillary Clinton, try¬
ing desperately to keep alive
her presidential campaign, are
privately telling Democrats
that she is so “tight” with a
dollar that she would not con¬
tinue her contest Sen.
Barack Obama if she did not have a chance
to win.
That was a reference to Clinton pulling
$11 million out of her family’s newfound
personal fortune to maintain her candidacy.
Saying that she would not waste money on a
futile effort, her supporters imply she will
still find a path to the presidential nomina¬
tion.
With not enough primary elections left
for Clinton to close the delegate gap
between her and Obama, her strategists have
to rely on the arguments they make to super¬
delegates. But they are having trouble sell¬
ing their claim that Clinton would not be
spending her own money if she did not har¬
bor some secret tricks.
McCain’s evangelicals
An invitation for Sen. John McCain to
meet with evangelical leader James Dobson
at his Focus on the Family headquarters in
Colorado Springs, Colo., so far has been
rebuffed by the McCain campaign.
Dobson has indicated he cannot support
McCain for president. His opposition
reflects continued resistance to the prospec¬
tive presidential nominee among Christian
conservatives. They take issue with
McCain’s current positions on stem cell
research, immigration and global warming,
as well as his past sponsorship of campaign
finance reform.
Many of Dobson’s followers are looking
beyond 2008 to seek a new leader of the
conservative movement for the 2012 elec¬
tion.
No thanks, Cheney
Key Republicans in Mississippi, stunned
by the loss May 13 of a supposedly safe con¬
gressional seat, grumble that Vice President
Dick Cheney’s campaign visit to the district
probably hurt more than it helped.
Their complaint is that the vice presiden¬
tial visit was a “distraction,” which dimin¬
ished the effort to save the election. These
critics put the visit by former presidential
candidate Mike Huckabee in the same cate¬
gory. National Republicans spent millions of
Robert a»|
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than the Republican loser, Greg Davis,
mayor of a Memphis suburb. But any
Republican likely would have been able to
beat any Democrat in the north Mississippi
district if the tide were not running strongly
against the GOP.
Appeasing the aggies
Any real chance to sustain a presidential
veto of the farm bill vanished because of
what senior House Republicans heard from
President George W. Bush when they were
summoned May 9 to the White House for a
pep talk.
Bush informed the assembled
Republicans that he was about to veto the
final version of the farm bill for excessive
spending. But he went on to suggest that
Republicans from agricultural districts,
hard-pressed in a tough election year for the
GOP, would be free to vote their own inter¬
ests. This was seen as caving in to the
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aggies.
The outcome of Wednesday’s vote was a
foregone conclusion. Republicans supported
the measure, 100 to 91, as the bill passed by
veto-proof margin of 318 to 106.
Ron Paul’s troops
There is no sign so far that the resources
of Rep. Ron Paul’s Republican presidential
campaign will be made available to former
GOP Rep. Bob Barr as the Libertarian Party
candidate, but McCain strategists fear that
will be the case.
Barr is running on much the same issues
as Paul, including opposition to the military
intervention in Iraq. Paul, the Libertarian
candidate in 1988, has never ended his cam¬
paign for the Republican nomination and has
continued to pile up impressive primary
totals against Sen. John McCain. Paul has
indicated he never will endorse McCain.
Without help from Paul’s impressive
national network, Barr would be unlikely to
perform better than the usual Libertarian
presidential nominees.
To find out more about Robert D. Novak
and read his past columns, visit the Creators
Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.
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Now the shoe’s on the other foot
Obama is like a shot of Botox.
Support him, and you take 10
years off your face. You join the
cool crowd. You become one with
idealistic kids and Hollywood
glitterati.
Clinton Democrats can’t com¬
pete. They’re on the outside look¬
ing in. They used to be hip. They
were the bad boys who scoffed at
finger-wagging conservatives.
Now, they have traded in their
saxophones for a pantsuit.
The glamour is gone. Once,
their very politics, the simple fact
that they registered as Democrats
instead of Republicans, made
them better than meat-and-pota
toes America. They cared more.
They were smarter. They knew
how to play the system. They
were destined to run things.
Now they are trailing behind
an upstart junior senator.
Before Iowa, when the
Clintons were the party’s power
couple, the faithful quickly
became indignant at any criticism,
deserved or not, of either Clinton.
As Obama racks up more del
egates, Republicans and
Democrats can say anything they
want about either Clinton, and
there is no outrage. Worse, it is
now apostasy to criticize Obama.
Even if they were white, mid-
dollars on the race in an
unsuccessful attempt to tie the
conservative Democratic can¬
didate to Barack Obama.
It is generally agreed that
the Democratic winner, coun¬
ty official Travis Childers,
was a much better candidate
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS — Wednesday, May 21,2008
Debra
Saunders
COLUMNIST /
dle-aged and living in mostly
white enclaves, Clintonians had a
quick ticket to the votes of black
America. If a Republican said
something that could be con¬
strued as racist, they did not hesi¬
tate to pull the race card.
Now the First Black President
and his missus, Hillary, are the
race-baiters. The world is upside
down.
And they look like crybabies
when they try to pull the gender
card. It just isn’t fair.
In the good ol’ days, even
when they lost a battle with
Congress, their losses were sani¬
tized by the news that they were
riding high in the polls. Now,
every time they stumble, it is fur¬
ther proof not that further
proof is needed, pundits pile on
— that they are history.
And when they win, their vic¬
tories don’t rate the front page.
Clintonia gets no credit.
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These days, they are big in West
Virginia.
Meanwhile, their rivals have
become more brazen. There are
more Obama signs on Berkeley
lawns in May than there were
before Super Tuesday, when
Clinton won California. On the
UC Berkeley campus, Hillary
Rodham Clinton boosters have
become defensive. Surly even.
On cable networks, the talking
heads are gleeful about their
demise.
And there’s nothing they can
do to turn the ship around. The
patina of inevitability has faded.
The people who support them
don’t count. When they bring up
Florida and Michigan, and invoke
the old tried-and-true mantra,
“Let every vote count,” they are
met with a shrug. When the old
standby slogans don’t work, what
can you do?
Party insiders scowl that their
competition is merely flash and
charisma. They now have come
to respect stamina. For some, the
old defiance has ripened into
stubbornness.
Poor, poor Clinton Democrats.
Now they know how it feels to be
Republicans.
E-mail Debra J. Saunders at
dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.