Drudge: Hillary Preparing to Drop Out
Drudge reports that Hillary Clinton is about to drop out if she loses - by double digits - in New Hampshire.
Drudge reports that, according to several campaigns, Hillary Clinton is considering dropping out of the race altogether if she loses (bigtime) in New Hampshire tomorrow. The reason is, according to Drudge, that Hillary’s closest advisers don’t see a path to victory. Aside from that, she’ll also have financial problems sources told Drudge.
One top adviser is quoted as saying: “She can’t take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn’t want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats.”
Drudge adds that John Edwards told several of his staffers that he stays in the race because he thinks that Clinton “could soon be out,” because her money “is going to dry up.”
Although she’s certainly in trouble, I’m - like Dan Riehl - not buying it. She’s competitive in several big states. She’s still polling well nationally; she has money; she has the connections; she’s an experienced campaigner… Why in the world would she drop out? It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
So why the rumor? Riehl argues that the Clinton campaign itself is behind the rumor, in an attempt to orchestrate some kind of giant comeback later this month or in February. That’s one option indeed, but it could also be spread by rival campaigns in an attempt to discourage people from voting for her and, instead, to jump on Obama’s bandwagon (or to support Edwards of course).
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Wake Up America: “Whoever is spreading this rumor has an agenda but I doubt it is going to help her either way.”
Blue Crab Boulevard: “This story reeks of Carville and his media manipulation.”
Captain’s Quarters: “This makes sense coming from the Edwards campaign. They’ve mostly lived in Fantasyland throughout 2007, and what better way to start 2008 than by hoping all of his competition packs up and goes home? This likely came from one of the competing campaigns, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it came from Team Edwards.”
Wonkette: “Hang in there, Matt! Hillary might still be your Queen.”
I wouldn’t buy it either. If she loses SC as well as NH than She’d need some serious life support, but for now - not a chance, it’s a pipe dream.
Hillary made one huge mistake in her political life. She did the right thing and voted for the war in Iraq. It was the right thing and the popular thing to do at the time because it had the support of near 80 percent of the American population.
The war was going well. Afghanistan had fallen. Terrorists were on the run and nations were falling behind the USA if even reluctantly.
The 2004 elections were approaching and the democrats instead of choosing to focus on issues and support the war they decided to go another direction. The choice by the party was to go away from supporting the Republicans war. To make the war the Republicans war. Much as the GOP did with LBJ and the Vietnam war. As such their decision to do this almost instantly divided the country and left Hillary holding the bag along with her guilty by association buddy George W. Bush.
So in retrospect Im sure Hillary would love to have that one vote back. But as a candidate who believes in her decisions, then and now Im sure she believes then and she believes now that going to war in Iraq was the right thing to do. The problem we all have is that she, like everyone else, did not believe that we would still be in Iraq 5 years later and counting.
A world grown sick of war sees Hillary as being a war monger for this vote. The world believes that if we all just run away that the world will be all better again. Hillary has the guts to face the chaos that is the middle east. Obama just wants to run away. It is this that seperates the two and it is the world who is forcing their wills upon the American Electorate.
Gone are the days when Americans get to make up their own minds. Now we have to listen to Foreigners telling us daily and in huge numbers what is the right thing to do for our nation. Perhaps that is their right because we as a nation seem to want to force our wills upon other nations. If this is our policy then perhaps it is no longer an American election and is fastly becoming a world wide referendum.
Is this an ad hominem attack against your’s truly?
And as for foreigners commenting on American politics: it’s called globalization. Your analysts are doing the exact same thing with regards to every other nation in the world. Why? Because we’re dependent on each other. Especially with regards to allies and the war on terrorism.
Try that bull again and you’re banned.
With all of these predictions about top tier candidates dropping out, I have to wonder if the campaigns themselves are taking a calculated risk and leaking a rumor like that- in the hopes that it will mobilize a better turnout of their supporters. It seems it could work either way (people either assume their candidate is DOA and stay home, or they get more passionate in an attempt to make sure the candidate remains viable) but I’d think it would be more the latter so I can see why a candidate who is struggling might want to try this.
I smell campaign spin, and I don’t buy it for a minute. If Clinton is so weenie that she would drop out from a position of even reduced strength with well over 95% of the vote still to be taken and a hotly-contested and tight polling position, then she shouldn’t be in the running in the first place. And while I’m not a Hillary fan, she’s got lots more spine than that. As I have said for years, love her or hate her, but do not ever underestimate her.
This reminds me of the Thompson and McCain drop-out rumors that seem to lead back to the Romney campaign. I note that at least part of this rumor is quoted out from the Edwards campaign.
Mr. Galien you perhaps should take the chip off your shoulder. You have chosen to run a blog in which you invite people to partake by commenting.
If you want to say things and try to convince people that what you believe is wiser the what others believe then you should also be willing to accept criticism.
However I dont even know who you are. Now Im suspecting you must be from a foreign country. I stumbled upon this site doing a search.
You might want to reread what I posted and you quoted.
Perhaps that is their right because we as a nation seem to want to force our wills upon other nations. If this is our policy then perhaps it is no longer an American election and is fastly becoming a world wide referendum.
I am strongly suggesting that American Politics IS the business of the World because of what I posted here.
Ad Hominem attack against you? I dont even know who you are or where you live.
Abrisaham: I’m Dutch. And yes, we encourage people to partake in the debate or conversation, but not with attacking anyone personally.
I’m sorry for misinterpreting your comment, but not for the reaction after misinterpreting it.
Gone are the days when Americans get to make up their own minds. Now we have to listen to Foreigners telling us daily and in huge numbers what is the right thing to do for our nation.
I doubt world opinion is really having an impact on the elections as far as which candidate will win either nomination. World opinion might have something to do with the nation’s desire to run as far away from the Dubya legacy as possible.
woops… the first part of my last post was a quote from post #2
LMAO! True story- my young son just saw the picture of Hillary that accompanies the body of this article (he doesn’t know who she is yet) and said "Oh gosh, I bet she could give me nightmares."
Promise I’m not making it up- I can’t stop laughing.
C Stanley LMAO, that’s great. I liked another picture of Hillary after having lost Iowa.
As for the subject at hand, my BS monitor is off the radar here. I dislike Clinton, but she’s not going down without a hell of a fight. She’ll make it to super-Tuesday, one way or another, I’m almost certain of that.
Well, when you are viewed as the "front-runner," and you are upset by another candidate in an early contest, you have to recover quickly… If not, you lose major momentum and support, and that makes it more likely that you will have to drop out.
This is what almost happened to Bob Dole, in 1996, on the Republican side. [The GOP Establishment weighed in very heavily, following Iowa and New Hampshire, to push him into the nomination.]
Howard Dean was sunk, in a similar way, after he stumbled in the early contests, during the last Democrat presidential nomination race. Hopefully, this will happen to Hillary as well.