Smell the desperation? I certainly do:
"If you listen to the people who are most strongly for him, they say basically, 'We have to throw away all these experienced people, because they have been through the wars of the nineties,'" Clinton said in an interview on PBS' The Charlie Rose show. "'They made enough decisions and enough calls that they made a few mistakes, and what we want is someone who started running for president a year after he became a senator because he's fresh, he's new, he's never made a mistake. And he has massive political skills, and we're willing to risk it.'"
Bill, buddy, listen up, I'm going to lay it out so even you can understand.
Obama's supporters aren't saying that they want to throw away people who have experience, they want to get someone in who's going to take the country in a different direction. You've had your turn, you blew it. Hillary smells to high heaven of the kind of corruptness that you had, and people simply aren't jiving with it.
I'm not trying to come out to support Obama, but I am trying to point out that Bill's trying to put a spin on Obama's support.
It reeks of desperation on the part of HIllary's campaign because if she wasn't in such a hotly contested race, Bill wouldn't have paid 2 cents to what Obama was doing.
Instead, we have this whole "experience" matter being raised by the Clinton campaign to do the standard FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.
Bring those into an election about your opponent, and you'll see votes swing your way. It's a classic tactical maneuver being done right before our eyes. Unfortunately for Clinton, people can see through the bullshit and want something different from the status quo.
This is also the danger that Republicans face in the upcoming election. If you show that you're going to be more of the same, people aren't going to vote for you. You have to show how you're going to solve America's problems.
That is why Ron Paul's campaign is doing so well in many areas. He's showing a different way of thinking and voters are responding to it.
Do I think he'll win? Well there certainly is that possibility, but I wouldn't put it past Ron Paul to run as an independent.
With Ron Paul getting record funds on the internet, he certainly cannot be discounted. However, he may be popular with the internet kids, but that's not turning into popularity spikes with recent voter polls.
What may be worrying to Republicans most is that polls have been wrong in the past.
Let's take a look at a particular, likely, scenario:
Say Hillary snatches the Democratic nomination and for some reason Guilani does the same on the Republican side.
If you put Ron Paul into the mix, you've got yourself a battle royal.
People will vote against Hillary for many of the reasons that I've pointed out in the past.
Guiliani might gather up some steam when showing off his record on 9/11 and his years as mayor of New York and working for the Justice Department.
However, both candidates have enough people that would vote against them that they would look towards an independent candidate.
That's where Ron Paul comes in.
What I'm trying to say is that when Bill Clinton is discounting someone, he's bringing attention to them as well as Hillary.
Do that, and you have yourself a recipe for a nasty backlash.
Travis
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