Hillary Clinton is going to start her own political party. Can you believe it? No? That’s because it’s not true. But, according to the Clinton campaign, repeating false talking points until they are accepted by the public as fact seems to be their current strategy. As seen in this clip of View [watch here], the blatantly false and divisive talking points created by Hillary’s campaign have taken hold among her supporters, who then — in turn — also ditto those TPs to a wider audience, who may then — in turn — repeat said talking points . . . dizzy yet? I know I am, and I want to vomit.
“Hillary is ahead in the popular vote.”
I abhor this lie shoveled down our throats as fact. It seems all progressives know that in that fuzzy math tally, Hillary is not including caucus states. How that’s possible when we all know her to be such a bastion of counting-every-vote is beyond me. Oh wait, she isn’t. This is the same anything-to-win tactics that we’ve all come to admire as “strength and perseverance”. The fact remains that even if she supports Obama from this point forward, she has laid the groundwork in her supporters’ collective minds, that they have been robbed in a similar vein as Gore in 2000, and that will cast a dark cloud over Obama’s general election campaign and subsequent term(s) in office.
When hosts have had a chance to scrutinize and question the veracity of these figures, they often fall short, as can be seen in this clip here, where Terry McAuliffe’s claims are only met with, “you’re good,” which — correct me if I’m wrong — signals he may have a case/point: but he doesn’t.
“Hillary can carry the states needed in the general election; Obama can’t.”
This second talking point parroted on ‘the View’ is even crazier than the fuzzy math, because it defies logic and assumes they can see into the future. True, Hillary won some swing/purple states, but does her victory equal Obama’s defeat in a general election against McCain? What’s more, the Democratic Party has won three Congressional victories over recent months in entrenched Republican strongholds. People are tired of Republicans; the Democratic Party has never had such a ’silver plattered’ election granted to them before. The only way they could lose is if, say, one of the Democratic nomination hopefuls implicitly tells all his/her followers to vote Republican in November.
This translates into a tacit hope, as seen in Whoopi’s comments about 4 years as opposed to 8 years, that Obama will lose. How is it possible that McCain could beat Obama? Well, watching the now infamous “crazy Hillary supporter”, who declares she will vote for McCain instead of an “inadequate black male”, may give us an insight into their true Plan B: scorch Obama’s chances and sail to victory in 2004 with an added, “I told ya so.”
This truly does beg the question, does Hillary support the Democratic Party? Why not start her own political party, that way she needn’t lie and manipulate facts to her advantage to get the nomination. She already has her legion of disgruntled dittoheads to support her. So, let’s start the rumor here! Repeat it to all your friends, because repetition is truth: Hillary Clinton is going to start her own political party!
**Edit**
Just now on Aljazeera English, Rob Reynolds had an Obama and Hillary supporter “discussion” panel over the issues, and the Hillary supporter repeated the “popular vote” claim and both Reynolds and the Obama supporter remained absolutely mute, not challenging that message at all. People need the spirit if Tim Russert in scrutinizing these claims. Grrr.
Tags: 2008 Democratic Primary, Aljazeera English, Hillary 2008, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Terry McAuliffe, the View, US Politics, Whoopi
June 4, 2008 at 11:02 am
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