Reply #114: wow

[ErinBerin84]

I saw this on the David Gregory show, and I have a lot of the same reaction as many of you have. It looks like something a Republican would run.

Hillary needs to be more careful. Even if she gets the nomination, she is going to be facing a divided party, just like Obama will face if he is the nominee. The polls suggest that there are more Hillary voters that wouldn't vote for Obama, than there are Obama voters that wouldn't vote for Hillary. I wouldn't count on that so much now. I think that a lot of Obama supporters say that they will be a good democrat and vote for Hillary, because they think that she has already lost.
A lot of Democrats I know that defended Hillary and Bill all through the 90s are even wondering if she WILL be able to slay off the attacks of the right wing anymore. In the 90s, much of the defense of the attacks was the "It's us against them, it's the right wing conspiracy" nature. When she has faced scrutiny for the Bosnia incident, she said that she misspoke, but that it just proved she was human, which was a "revelation" to some. Bill Clinton was saying last week that the media made a much bigger deal of the Bosnia story than was waranted (the "Media Conspiracy") theme. Even when Hillary was asked about the Colombian free trade deal that her husband worked towards, she was speechless. She could have used it as a strong moment to assert the differences between her and her husband...it could have been so good for her. She truly seemed shocked that a reporter even asked her the question. There have been so many areas where the strategy has been off...not only does she go negative, but she does it in such a distasteful way that it almost negates the point she is making. But Who knows. Maybe this is "Hillary's Big Break". But the ways in which she has miscalculated certain strategies during this primary makes me wonder if she would be any better in the general, or if it would just be excuses.