Re: Is she toast?

On Thu, 08 May 2008 03:02:44 +0000, "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique
allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
<tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Greg Goss wrote:
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
>> <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >Dover Beach wrote:
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>> >> I think she'd have a better shot at 2012 if she'd back out now.  I
hate
>> >> to see her do it, and I can understand if she wants to keep
fighting,
>> >> but she'd preserve more goodwill if she'd wait four more years.
>> >>
>> >Where's Gore now? He's reduced to blaming a big whirlwind on
>> >"Global Warming".
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>> Gore could probably have had this nomination if he'd wanted it.
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>After the nonsense he's pulled with his Global Warming business
>ventures and his Bigfoot carbon footprint?
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Id rather have him doing that then getting us stuck in Iraq.
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>>  For
>> most of the campaign, the betting site that I watch had Gore at better
>> odds than Edwards, even though he wasn't running.  (I guess bettors
>> figured he'd be an up-the-middle compromise at a deadlocked
>> convention?).  Gore didn't want it.  He's happy where he is.
>> 
>This isn't his election. He screwed it up in 2000. In fact, it was
>as close as it was because, if you'll recall, Bush's DUI was leaked
>right before the vote. 
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He screwed it up?  He won the popular vote.  How is that screwing it
up?

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>> Another example might be Reagan.  I was going through my old playboy
>> clippings once and found a political article on the back of one of
>> them about the presidential race -- including Reagan.  In 1968.  You
>> keep at it, and eventually you might get it.  But I don't think that
>> would work for Clinton.  She's made too many enemies to come back in
>> four years and try again.
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>What you don't get usually is more than one shot at being the major
>party nominee. You can run and run and not get that far, but once
>they attach the party to you as their draft horse, you better win.
>Unless you are Nixon. Then maybe it would've been better to not
>win.