Comments on: Sad: Hillary loans her campaign $6.4 million

By: Ares

Ares — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:16:33 +0000

Good to see Hillary having to pay for this.

She is nothing if not tenacious. I dread to think what will happen if Obama is denied the prize though – riots at the least.

By: JetBlast

JetBlast — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:19:01 +0000

She will not be forced to drop out unless the DNC promises her some huge perk. She will not go out the door quietly.

If we cannot beat Obama in the general, we truely have hit rock bottom and I’m certain that once his true colors (can I say that?) are shown, voters will come to their senses. McCain wasn’t my first GOP choice but compared to BO, he’s far superior. Continued aggessive military action in the mid-east is paramount to the long-term survival/prosperity of the western world. Obama could undo all that with the stroke of a pen.

By: BigMouthFrog

BigMouthFrog — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:29:17 +0000

Hillary Loans Self Another $6.4 Mil…

Michael McAuliff
The Clinton campaign confirms that Hillary Clinton has again dipped into her and Bill’s personal fortune to fund her limping presidential campaign, this time to the tune of $6.425 million.
She loaned herself $5 million just before t…

By: Griz

Griz — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:04:39 +0000

I hear she’s going to take the NFL commisioner’s job.

By: Harry Schell

Harry Schell — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:58:53 +0000

If she quits it will only be with a lot of chits from DNC and others. Even then, I think Obaaammmaaa is hardly a shoo-in if the Reps run a proper campaign.

If Obaammmaaa does not get the nomination you can count on riots. Whether they should let him take the nomination or not, the DNC hasn’t the guts to take it on, so Barry O will get the nod.

If he loses to McCain, race relations will step back to the 1960′s and Dems would rather blame the resulting mess on McCain than their own handwork and victimology.

The idea of Michelle as First Lady is as nauseating as Billy for First Husband.

What a damn mess…

By: MB4

MB4 — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:45:53 +0000

Plus: Fearless prediction on when Hillary drops out!

She will drop out when they pry her broom away from her cold dead hands.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:35:53 +0000

She will fight for the nomination fang and claw, all the way to Denver, when they dems will give it to her. Hussein is unelectable and most of his supporters will back the harridan. The hussein moonbats will riot.

By: michaelo

michaelo — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:47:34 +0000

Barry can’t say no to a combined ticket, but Michelle sure will. Hillary Clinton one heartbeat away from the Presidency???? With Michelle’s already stated fear of assassination?

Let me conVince you, I Foster some reservations about the advisability of that.

By: jon1979

jon1979 — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:34:41 +0000

Since there are no more large states with huge media buys to worry about, Hillary can stay in for a while longer and hope that some bad mojo hits the Obama campaign, since wins in Kentucky and West Virginia next week aren’t going to have any effect on the current spin (after last night, you’d half expect to see most of the TV reporters and news readers marching outside Hillary’s Chappaqua home with signs saying “Save Our Party! Get Out Now!”, so they’re not going to cut her any slack next week if she wins).

Only a threat to financially cut the Clintons off at the knees by turning off their outside income sources would be able to get Hillary and Bill to leave the race before the final primary is over, and even then the Ickes-Blumenthal contingent may still want to go to court over Michigan and Florida. She’s in for at least another month, and even after that, if Obama doesn’t give her the VP slot, Democrats will be wondering during the general election if any negative information that comes out about Barak may or may not have originated from the Clintons, who still have 2012 to hope for if McCain wins election.

By: Sultry Beauty

Sultry Beauty — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:31:07 +0000

McGovern jumps ship. She’s done.

By: dtestard

dtestard — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:13:07 +0000

Anyone think there is a chance for a McCain/Clinton ticket against Obama if she’s made to stand down? It’s not like McCain has to worry about possibly alienating the Republican base or anything.

By: EJDolbow

EJDolbow — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:11:06 +0000

How bad would Obama look if Hillary dropped out and THEN beat him by double digits in WV and KY?

By: blink

blink — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:04:47 +0000

Bold, bold predictions, Big A. I like it!

By: kirkill

kirkill — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:00:42 +0000

Ding Dong, the witch is dead.

By: Chuck Schick

Chuck Schick — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:49:27 +0000

6.4 million would have bought alot of Arkansas hookers for the Slick one.

By: Earlg

Earlg — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:47:29 +0000

Heck no she’ll stay in, it keeps the race framed as a one-party race into the Oval and the media away from McCain. Plus the Dem’s harvest name repetition associated with win, ‘Obama will win, Obama will win…’ ad puke’em.

Toss in your Random Glittering Generality Generator, Senator Obama, and it’s a helluva campaign.

Just be sure to get any money you might have out of the markets, it’s gunna be a bloodbath.

By: CynicalOptimist

CynicalOptimist — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:44 +0000

If you look closely at the picture… you can see Bill checking out the 21-year-old campaign supporter in the miniskirt on the front row…..

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:40:34 +0000

“Clinton made a $5 million loan on April 11, a $1 million loan May 1, and $425,000 May 5.”
I know I’m too stoopid to understand campaign funds in the 21st century, but will someone be so kind as to tell me how HRC can ‘loan’ the money to her own campaign?…Is she gonna pay herself back–when she gets the taxpayers to pay the bills spent on her Presidential run? I mean, chutzpah, thy name is Clinton!
This is very interesting food for thought:
“My guess? She makes a deal with Obama to drop out in return for him agreeing to recognize the results of those two primaries. That’ll make the final margin between them nice and tight, letting her save face and giving her a chance to play the magnanimous populist who made sure every vote was counted. And since it’s so close to Mother’s Day, to wring maximum sympathy for her decision, she’ll claim it was Chelsea who finally persuaded her that it was time to go.”
Ahem, right there is evidence that even AP sees Hilly playing ‘Mommy Dearest’ and writing the script for her ‘photo-op-prop’ daughter. (But there isn’t anything cold or cruel in that!;-)
While I can’t find a decent Mother’s day card for my step mother, HRC manipulates the holiday for her ‘advantage’.
Something we have come to expect from Herself.

By: CynicalOptimist

CynicalOptimist — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:42 +0000

Can you say “Tax Write-off”? It will be a huge loss of money…. Who does the toilet flush for? It flushes for thee, Hillary!

By: Spirit of 1776

Spirit of 1776 — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:13 +0000

Or is she going to try to muscle her way onto the ticket to keep her profile nice and high for 2012 or 2016?

Yes.

By: cntrlfrk

cntrlfrk — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:26:56 +0000

Another crutch to keep your campaign afloat?

$6.4 million.

Watching the battered, beaten Clintons move out of public service with a lot less money and many fewer ‘Clintonites’?

Priceless.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:20:56 +0000

Sad: Hillary loans her campaign $6.4 million

Sad? Nah, this is great news! She’s not likely to quit after investing millions of her own money.

Chaotic. Partay like its 1968 baby.

By: Starlink

Starlink — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:19:52 +0000

Saw on Politico blog they are reporting skepticism on 10M reported raised by Hillary after Penn primary. Real number was $3.6 + $6.4 loan = $10M.

Contributors will figure this out and funds will dry up. Assuming this is true, nevertheless, if I was in deep with her already, I would be making calls to get the real numbers for April and May.

If the $10M was not donor driven, she really has some explaining to do. Watching live the West Virginia speech. Grace or comical combative?

By: BillH

BillH — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:19:50 +0000

Weight of Glory on May 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Not so much sad as honest. The Supers are backing who they see as the strong horse.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:45 +0000

Don’t worry… its all Middle Eastern Oil money anyway.

McCain Feingold at its best.