Haystack, Red State [1], wonders how long it will be before MoveOn.org turns on Mrs. Clinton:
Pejman [2]has already discussed the Reuters piece [3]that covered the Dem debate in Hanover NH, and he couldn’t be more right in wondering just how long before donor monies might dry up.
I’d take it a step further [4]and ask how long before MoveOn has Hillary and Obama on a fresh ad campaign splash. Certainly, suggesting they can’t commit to a withdrawal they are RUNNING on offers up sufficient entertainment for we GOP’ers as we watch them implode…but to ADD insult to injury by offering up what new taxes and spending they will pursue AFTER they fail to lose the war is just too rich for words.
Paul, Powerline [5], notes of Mrs. Clinton’s debate preformnace:
[Mrs.] Clinton is trying to run out the clock. She refused to answer a number of questions — whether she would take certain measures to fix Social Security, whether she would commit to stopping Iran from becoming a nuclear power even if it required a preemptive attack to do so, whether she would be comfortable with young children in her family reading in school about a prince who marries a prince.
Other answers and positions clearly were formulated with an eye towards the general election — her willingness to keep some troops in Iraq and have them conduct counter-terrorism missions, her support for a Senate resolution co-sponsored by Joe Lieberman declaring certain Iranian units to be terrorists. I think Clinton is correct in believing that she need only run out the clock. However, if her unwillingness to answer questions she doesn’t like persists in the general election, it will be a liability.
Fred Thompson’s campaign sums up the ‘rats:
“I hope every American tuned in tonight to watch the Democrats debate how much to raise taxes, how much to grow government, and which route to surrender they would choose in the war against terror. The contrast between Fred Thompson and every liberal throwback on that stage could not be more clear, and watching them tonight makes me feel downright bullish about winning next November.”
From, Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review [6].
Surrender and higher taxes, not much of a platform.