Video: The Glacier triumphant
posted at 12:57 am on March 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Double digits in Ohio and, just at the very minute I’m writing this, a narrow victory in Texas declared by all the networks. I feel like a new father whose wife just gave birth to a healthy, vindictive, Machiavellian baby girl. Think Jonah Goldberg’s sorry about having put this column to bed early?
Eh, she’ll still lose. But it’ll be nice to have the Messiah bleed a bit more before the resurrection, be it from new and ever more exciting unforced errors or having those 50 secret superdelegates who were apparently all set to praise his holy name back in play. Bill Richardson, who declared not two days ago that he who hath the most delegates at the close of business today shall be the nominee, is already dragging her out from under the bus. How excited is she to keep this going? The Pennsylvania primary’s on April 22; Chelsea has an event scheduled there tomorrow.
Exit question one: What physical form will Chris Matthews’s grief take? Just tears, or full-on heart palpitations? Exit question two: Who’ll get more credit for Her Majesty’s revival, Lorne Michaels or Rush Limbaugh? And exit question three: “Yes we will”?
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Hillaroids.
fogw on March 5, 2008 at 1:01 AM
I got a fee-vah and the only prescription is alot more democratic civil war!!!!
Defector01 on March 5, 2008 at 1:02 AM
I thought that was the “smartest”, turn of phrase.. “if you will”
However, “Yes she will, Raise your Taxes.. ” etc, etc, etc..
Chakra Hammer on March 5, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Just think of all the money they’ll spend attacking each other instead of McCain.
dedalus on March 5, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I love the idea that the civil war continues…
Not so sure how I like the thought of facing both of them on the same ticket.
Purple Fury on March 5, 2008 at 1:04 AM
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is easily the most screwed-up, messed up primary season in my short life. I’ve never seen the political fortunes of so many people decided by the weak-stream media elites.
fourstringfuror on March 5, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Matthews physical manifestation? Rhymes with wimp.
kwbrownie2003 on March 5, 2008 at 1:06 AM
Someone should call the veterinarian that aged Garter snake in his packet might need emergency care. >:D
Chakra Hammer on March 5, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Is it possible? Can it be? The Obama bubble bursting eight months before the general? One can only hope.
The_Freeze on March 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM
Congratulations, AP
TexasDan on March 5, 2008 at 1:15 AM
I think I speak for all Texas Republicans when I say … Yes, we did.
Let the lawsuits begin now, please.
PurpleWombats on March 5, 2008 at 1:16 AM
Jesus wept.
The Ugly American on March 5, 2008 at 1:18 AM
Fun to watch the rats running back and forth between ships.
The H.M.S. Hillary chugs stolidly onward.
The S.S. Obama loses a tin rudder pin.
Is that Michelle in the crow’s nest?
Ed Rendell, ho!
profitsbeard on March 5, 2008 at 1:19 AM
Hehehe. Thanks.
Allahpundit on March 5, 2008 at 1:19 AM
I guess the old witch must have gotten her broom’s propulsion system reignited somehow.
MB4 on March 5, 2008 at 1:21 AM
MB4 on March 5, 2008 at 1:21 AM
My heart goes out to the broom. EEewwwww!
Saltysam on March 5, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Let Matthews just have a sick headache with mild nausea and vomiting.
Rush will never let anyone forget it was him.
Maybe “Yes we will” can be replaced by Palantine’s “We are the people.”
snaggletoothie on March 5, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Hope Obama’s got his Dramamine ready — the spin the Clinton people are about to take his campaign on will have Barak and his followers releasing statements by tomorrow denying claims their candidate on his last legs and is thinking about abandoning his campaign. And it will be just as fun to watch the game of chicken played by many of the liberal pundits between now and Pennsylvania, not knowing if they should stay welded to the Obama camp because he still has the delegate count on his side, or if Obama Fever has broken among the masses and it’s time to scramble back to Hillary before its too late and they get cut out of the insiders loop as punishment during the general election (MSNBC ought to be the best place to watch this panic attack play itself out).
jon1979 on March 5, 2008 at 1:28 AM
jon1979 on March 5, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Anyway you slice it, I’m leaning back in my chair with my crossed feet on my desk. My hands are clasped behind my head, and I’m smiling.
Saltysam on March 5, 2008 at 1:32 AM
Hillary’s gotta be hung like a horse.
mylegsareswollen on March 5, 2008 at 1:35 AM
LOL
CK MacLeod on March 5, 2008 at 1:36 AM
Did she just say Obama brought a lot to this “race”??? RAAAAACIST!!
amkun on March 5, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Best AP line to date
joewm315 on March 5, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Exit 3
Yes, she will, and she will lose to McCain.
Remember Mitt’s great line — it will come back — “I can’t imagine Bill in the White House with nothing to do”
She/he will bring the base back to McCain.
And let me go one further — MCain will not be able to get Shamnesty through the Senate if he is not in it… He’ll never get the chance to sign it.
Save this for future reference.
DocKen on March 5, 2008 at 1:51 AM
No disagreement on that part, but is she a gelding or would that be Obama after tonight??
evenkeel on March 5, 2008 at 1:57 AM
Much as I’d love to have seen the stake driven into the black, oozing tumor that is the Hildebeest’s “heart” tonight, and much as I believe that the Conventional Wisdom that B. Hussein Obama is “hard to beat in the general” is utter, undiluted bunk, I find great comfort in knowing that the internecine warfare of the National Socialist Democrat Party will go on for much longer as a result of tonight.
It’ll be fun to watch.
And few things give me more pleasure than watching my enemies suffer. And suffer. And suffer some more.
Misha I on March 5, 2008 at 1:59 AM
Amazing - she has the borderlands to thank in El Paso and San Antonio. Huge victories there negated Obama’s triumphs in Houston and Dallas. This glacier ain’t melted quite yet.
Great night - now time for bed folks . Happy dreams of Democrats spending themselves silly and descending into civil war.
Pax americana on March 5, 2008 at 1:59 AM
Re-create 68.
29Victor on March 5, 2008 at 2:01 AM
Hell of a night. I loved watching Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman and Tim Russett getting used to the fact that the Dems will be hammering each other for weeks, while McCain will zing them both. Sweet night. Plus, the so-called “journalists” in the tank for Obama are looking pissed and spinning like tops about how Obama has all the delegates, blah, blah, blah. Greatest Democrat Primary, evah.
What are they going to do about Michigan and Florida, since they will need those states for the general? Think of all those Democratic dollars going to finance do overs and the knock down dragged out fight.
I would like to take the time to thank Howard Dean for such an entertaining show.
I need a cigarette.
Stormy70 on March 5, 2008 at 2:02 AM
Wet diapers
Entelechy on March 5, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Hillary won Texas & Ohio; she’s never going to give up now. This thing could go all the way to the DNC Convention. And it’s only going to get uglier & uglier. Think “Jason vs. Freddy.”
I’m making popcorn. This is going to be awesome.
29Victor on March 5, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Exit question four: What form will the Europeans’ grief take?
Entelechy on March 5, 2008 at 2:09 AM
Electile Dysfunction.
Also, Hillary’s win reminds me how much I still loathe Hollary.
BKennedy on March 5, 2008 at 2:17 AM
yummy
- The Cat
MirCat on March 5, 2008 at 2:21 AM
Ok, get ready for gallons of dem mud with it finally being decided by super delegate brown shirts and ending in anger and hard feelings. With moderate McCain taking the center and the white house.
Dollayo on March 5, 2008 at 2:40 AM
I say Matthews strokes out in the middle of the first Hardball tommorow trying to comprehend how anyone can NOT fall so totally and completely and unconditionaly in love with his man-crush, Barry-O.
SuperCool on March 5, 2008 at 3:31 AM
What’s the water temperature in Hades right now?
Must be well below 32F.
Never, NEVER, in my life would I have imagined that I would actually be glad when Hillary won an election..
LegendHasIt on March 5, 2008 at 3:43 AM
Check out these two humdinger—too-good-to-spike—comments I sent to last-night’s Hot Air Live Blog; they never showed:
Exit question: Could it be that AP—Hot Air’s resident Hillary-backer—was taking comment moderating duties last night? ;-)
clark smith on March 5, 2008 at 3:54 AM
The Democrat primary season has no officially gone from car wreck in slow motion to head-on train collision in slow-motion, Matrix style bullet time.
Lovin’ it.
Spc Steve on March 5, 2008 at 4:02 AM
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
Anti-conservative, anti-first amendment, pro illegal serfs, Juan Plantation McVano will be the
conservativeliberal Republican party nominee and in Texas, Republicans flock to vote for Hillary Clinton.For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
MB4 on March 5, 2008 at 4:13 AM
D) They will probably just blame it all on
meyou.MB4 on March 5, 2008 at 4:20 AM
Meh. We’re still guaranteed that in January 2009, we’ll swear in as president a Senator who’s hostile to conservatives.
I’ll push for McCain because he beats the heck out of Obama or Clinton, but I’d also push for athlete’s foot over cancer or ebola.
sulla on March 5, 2008 at 4:43 AM
You just gotta know that Clenis did the cigar smoking, bongo playing dance last night.
Sugar Land on March 5, 2008 at 5:27 AM
Umm, that would be P.M.S. Hillary.
This is going to be fun… The Democratic Convention will look like some kind of TLC nature special: “When `rats Eat Their Young”…. Or maybe the Sci-Fi Channel: Alien versus Predator
darkpixel on March 5, 2008 at 5:35 AM
I think we will find that Rush (and Allah) had an effect in this one.
Just looking at my own county here in Texas election results. In the democratic primary 8000 people voted on the presidential candidates but didn’t even cast a vote on the senatorial race or any other race. I beleive those were the cross-overs like myself that voted for Hillary.
Her margin of victory in my county…..4000 votes.
WE DID IT!!!
Now I need a bath!
conservnut on March 5, 2008 at 5:38 AM
That’s a visual I didn’t need this morning!
conservnut on March 5, 2008 at 5:40 AM
So, electing McCain President gets him out of the Senate?
OK, but that’s not really a selling point. That same “perk” applies to everyone who’s running right now.
logis on March 5, 2008 at 6:09 AM
The Democratic race is now going to be ugly and brutal. From here on end, these two are going to go for the jugular each and every chance they get. By the time it is over, I think what each of them is going to do to each other is going to convince the American people that if there is one thing that is a surety, it is that NEITHER of them is qualified to be President.
Somewhere, McPain is giggling.
pilamaye on March 5, 2008 at 6:10 AM
Hillary’s non-victory on Tuesday night - math doesn’t lie on delegates
Hillary LOST Texas in the delegate count. Of the 126 delegates available from the primary she won 64 - 62. Obama is going to win the caucus there with a net of +7 or more. That gives Barack at least a +5 delegate win in Texas.
In Ohio the split of the possible 141 delegates is Hillary 73 - Obama 68. That is +5 for Hillary.
In Vermont out of 15 possible it’s Obama 9, Hillary 6, +3 for Obama.
In Rhode Island out of 21 it’s Clinton 12, Obama 8, +4 for Hillary (1 delegate outstanding)
So as of this moment Hillary Clinton has a NET GAIN of 1 delegate from all four primaries last night. Big momentum!
Will the media now report the facts accurately? Hmmm…
Barack will easily erase that HUGE 1 (or 2) delegate gain by Hillary last night in Wyoming this Saturday and next Tuesday in Mississippi.
olympian2008 on March 5, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Foolish question.
This is a Rush-0-Centric world…he thinks everything reported, analyzed, predicted, is based upon his program.
He reminds me of those “predictors” of the future, they make so many predictions, that when one finally becomes true that’s all you hear about.
He has stated:
Obama will win
Hillary will win
McCain will win
Looks like he is right again.
He has stated that:
Michelle (Mssssss Obama) will hurt him
Will help him
He has stated that:
Bill will hurt Hillary
Will help Hillary
He has stated that:
McCain’s independence will hurt him
Will help him
Gee, Rush is always right…
right2bright on March 5, 2008 at 6:34 AM
Yeah, it’s gonna be fun to listen to El Rushbo today. How’d you like to be one of the many that bailed on her if she wins?
LtE126 on March 5, 2008 at 6:47 AM
Thank God for all those Republican crossovers!!!!
HILLARIOUS!!!!!
jimbo2008 on March 5, 2008 at 7:00 AM
AP, are you calling her “The Glacier” because: She is a cold, unfeeling, hideous creature that slowly flows over everyone and everything? Or is it something more sinister?
jimbo2008 on March 5, 2008 at 7:20 AM
You are of course correct that Hillary didn’t make much progress in the delegate count, but that’s hardly the point. With three popular vote victories, two in important states, she now has the justification to continue the race. And because, as you so rightly note, she can’t hope to outpoint Obama between now and the convention, she has to go for the knockout. She has to keep throwing haymakers and low blows at your guy, who hasn’t shown that he handles adversity well. He’s going to have to fire back and bring up all the old Clinton baggage, and the Olympian Messiah who has claimed to be above such mortal concerns will start to seem much more like a venal Chicago pol over the next two months. Your guy had the chance to put her away tonight, and he failed. So the fight will go the distance, and at the end of the 15th round whoever emerges will have to jump right into the big ring against John McCain, who will have been resting up for several months. Last night was an objectively bad night for Obama, no matter what the delegate count says.
Dudley Smith on March 5, 2008 at 7:37 AM
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
malan89 on March 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM
Good info. Thanks. McCain might do better as a candidate against Obama than Hillary. I think it’s an open question as to how hard he is prepared to attack her.
JiangxiDad on March 5, 2008 at 7:47 AM
i crossed in ohio to help the wench out. nothing else important on ballot, no , no and no on 3 tax renewals. and a “x” for billary. i came home and showered immediatly. i still feel dirty this morning.
palefaced on March 5, 2008 at 7:52 AM
I did my part here in Southeast Texas by pushing the button for the hildebeast. It gave me the dry heaves all night.
Spider79 on March 5, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Exit question one: What physical form will Chris Matthews’s grief take?
Someone suggested ED, but that gives him the benefit of considerable doubt. I think he crapped himself.
Exit question two: Who’ll get more credit for Her Majesty’s revival, Lorne Michaels or Rush Limbaugh?
They’ll give it to Lorne (already did), but Rush will rip it from his weakling fingers.
And exit question three: “Yes we will”?
It’s priceless that the rally cry from the illegal alien marches has become a campaign slogan for Democrats — they will regret this.
Jaibones on March 5, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Jonah Goldberg: “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
jgapinoy on March 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM
I thought about crossing in Ohio, but there… right in front of me on the ballot… Fred F#$ing Thompson. It took months, but I finally got to vote for Fred. Felt so good.
In other Ohio news, because I know you all were worried about it, Dennis Kucinich did indeed hold onto his House seat, proving that Clevelanders actually enjoy being a national punchline; either that, or that the union-funded/UFO-designed brainwashing sessions/shock collars worked.
saint kansas on March 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM
Escuse me, you said Civil War in the same sentence that made reference to Obama…the smear police will be at your door to deliver 200 lashes in the public square and paint RaaaAAAAcist on your door.
Alden Pyle on March 5, 2008 at 8:31 AM
Three notable factors:
1. Limbaugh’s influence exists contrary to MSM death wish.
2. Because of disenfranchised conservatives suckered with the Democrat gift of no choice McCain, Hillary got Texas IN SPITE OF the huge NO/LA black population influx post-Katrina who remain on welfare in Texas.
3. McCain had better stop alienating conservatives and GIVE US our platform on his ticket to ensure our vote in the general. We’ve proven our own independence with the ballot. Any further cuddling his liberal ID signifies his own forfeiture of support and success [succsupp].
maverick muse on March 5, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Alden, can’t help but notice that you have a bit of an edge to you over The Messiah. Crucifixion Complex?
Jaibones on March 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Obama has seen nothing yet. The attacks on him are going to be inconceivable. It will be interesting to see if he folds like a cheap suit.
volsense on March 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM
I’m sorry but she is just awful..I can’t listen to anymore
Ann on March 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Hillary won Michigan?????
Jordan Yentsch on March 5, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Lol. Last night was as good an outcome for the GOP as we could have hoped.
Tim Russert to the morons: Keith, Chris, you keep saying ’seven weeks.’ Now, I am imploring you - you have to start saying, ‘the next three months.’ This is going to go on until Puerto Rico, June 7.
Puerto Rico! That Democratic stronghold! Lots of electoral college votes up for grabs there. Bwhahaha. Thank you Dean.
Pax americana on March 5, 2008 at 9:01 AM
This is going to go on until Puerto Rico, June 7.
And beyond, if necessary!
saint kansas on March 5, 2008 at 9:04 AM
????
Alden Pyle on March 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Hellary, Hellary, Hellary! Just think people in this state almost put John Kerry in the White House. Don’t think the Dems aren’t already working on resurrecting some more dead people, registering illegals and paying many many favors! Scary.
wepeople on March 5, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Good news: They’ll keep fighting it out, spending $$$ and going negative.
Bad news: Obama/Clinton on the ticket together seems more likely and tougher to beat.
dedalus on March 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM
I had changed parties after the Florida debacle just to vote in the PA primary. And it’s not out of Hilary hating. It’s because one of these two clowns could be the next president. The difference is that Hilary would defend the US. We should remember that Hilary voting isn’t just some strategy to win the general election. It’s also needed to prevent a Jimmy Carter level disaster in the international arena.
thuja on March 5, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Hoh my God.
Ed Rendell just became the most important man in the country.
Watch out!!!!
rockmom on March 5, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Very nice AP… looks something like this?
MT on March 5, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Love that screen shot on the home page.
Evita!
Labamigo on March 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Amen, amen, and amen!
OneGyT on March 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM
I happened to be watching Hillary give her speech in Columbus on Fox News last night. The funniest (and unintentional) thing that she said was…
“Ohio knows how to pick a president.” (In my mind: George Bush?)
Later, she “clarified” it by talking about Presidents winning Ohio and stuff… but it was funny while it lasted.
HYTEAndy on March 5, 2008 at 12:55 PM
I HATE that fingerpoint, which it seems all candidates do, and I’ve seen Hillary do this numerous times!
It is SO contrived! It just makes for a nice photo (as we see in the screencap on this video).
asc85 on March 5, 2008 at 1:12 PM
The credit goes to those 15% “strategic voters”, in Texas at least, who crossed party lines to vote Glacier to keep B.O. at bay. As Rush has always said, he only reflects what people are already thinking. The Lone Star State flexes its electoral muscle.
labrat on March 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM
If you are asking if the Glacier will THAW, then the answer is NO!
jimbo2008 on March 6, 2008 at 8:46 AM
Oh,look! It’s Sister Frigidaire!
mcgilvra on March 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM
You have underestimated the Power of….
The Ultimate Clinton Political Machine!
serenity on March 6, 2008 at 1:11 PM
I can hear Bill packin the cooler now. The Capitol Hillbillies may rise again….
johnnyU on March 6, 2008 at 10:04 PM