McCain No Bush III
Whatever else Clintonistas might be, they aren’t stupid: Sidney Blumenthal via US News:
Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and strategist for Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign, went “off message” (his words) today with a warning to his party: Don’t run against GOP nominee John McCain by painting him as Bush III, because he’s not … running on that strategy in the fall would be a mistake. “I understand people’s political reasons for doing that,” he said. “I think it’s more helpful to describe [political opponents] as they are.” Bottom line, Blumenthal calls the strategy “a mistake and adds: “The public doesn’t see [McCain] that way. That’s a hard sell.”
In other Clinton news, this was only a matter of time. ABC’s Political Radar: Chel’s up next.
ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all. No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton?
“If you asked me (if Chelsea would run for office) before Iowa, I would have said, ‘No way. She is too allergic to anything we do.’ But she is really good at it,” former President Bill Clinton tells PEOPLE magazine in their latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday.
In the PEOPLE exclusive, Clinton called his daughter’s “emergence” the “second best thing” of the campaign, after his wife’s “ability to endure in the face of all the blows that have been rained on her: outspent, dismissed, denigrated, declared dead…when I met her, I found that in her personal relationships she lacked self-confidence and was painfully shy. She is having more fun now than at the beginning. If you look at her, she seems perfectly relaxed, doesn’t she?”
Well, yeah, I guess, in a scary “The Joker” eye-gouging kind of way.
When asked what he’s learned about Chelsea’s political skills, Clinton told PEOPLE, “It all changed after Iowa. She realized her mother lost Iowa 100 percent because of younger voters. She was upset, bawled, went to her employer and said, ‘Look, you got to let me go or give me an indefinite leave of absence. I’m not letting my mother go down like this.’”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:12 pm on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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May 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Eye-gouger in training.