Top Democratic Strategist: The Only Thing That Matters In 2008 Race Is Bill Clinton
November 26, 2007 -- 9:22 AM EST // //
One thing Democrats really need is more effective surrogates to make the party's case on TV and in quotes to print reporters.
Here, for instance, is Dem strategist Donna Brazile, a frequent guest on TV chat shows and a leading bearer of the Dem message, opining to the Des Moines Register on what she views as the single most important deciding factor of the 2008 Democratic primary:
"I think it's going to come down to: Do you really want Bill Clinton back in the White House?" said Donna Brazile, who ran Democrat Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.Do we really have such contempt for the voting public at this point that we actually think that Bill matters more than anything else to voters looking to decide on their candidate?
Look, you expect this kind of nonsense from David Broder and Charles Krauthammer, not from female Dem surrogates. Of course, there's a good reason for the likes of Brazile to keep saying such stuff: They know political reporters like to hear it, and will quote them if they say it. And getting quoted is the lifeblood of such folks.
Again: Poll after poll after poll after poll after poll has shown that big majorities say that Bill isn't weighing on their minds as they evaluate the candidates.
Stunningly, for some strange reason Americans persist in seeing Hillary as her own person, despite the fact that pundits keep telling them that they think the opposite. A recent WaPo poll found that two-thirds think Hillary will take the Presidency in her own direction. And a recent Fox poll found that an astonishing 72% think that if Hillary won the Presidency, the person calling the shots would be Hillary -- not Bill. Christ, even 68% of Republicans think this.
No matter -- there it is again, right there in the headline on Fox TV right now:
Does Bill Help Or Hurt Hillary?Stop saying this. Stop saying this. Stop saying this. Nobody cares about Bill. Nobody. Only you, pundits. No one else. No one.
No. One. Cares. About. Bill. No. One. Shut. Up. Right. Now.
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