The Clinton Machine

I think everyone has gotten too caught up in how strong the HRC machine can be and has worried for sometime that we have to find someone on the Right to fight her. But after this debate where she clearly stumbled on an easy question, the fallout has been quite interesting. At the last debate she clearly was for Gov. Spitzer's license idea before she was against it and not even in the matter of a couple of minutes. Now, after the debate, she is doing some serious damage control. It is clear that her fundraising, while appearing to be (what I think) sometimes illegal, is not short for money. She has raised millions. But now her campaign is declaring that the only way to fight off her poor performance is to...raise more money.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

So let me get this right, in order to fight off a question she flip flopped on, she needs even more money. She has been used to getting thrown easy questions and the one time she gets a hard question that she has clearly not been briefed on by her campaign, she needs even more money to fight it off. During that same conference call they are also trying to turn this into a bunch of men beating up a defenseless woman.

Those female voters are saying, “Sen. Clinton needs our support now more than ever if we’re going to see this six-on-one to try to bring her down,” Penn told those on the campaign call. Emphasis mine

What will she do if she makes it into office and those all so mean dictators get all mean with her? This all boils down to her being pampered her whole public life and never having to actually know anything without the help of a campaign or her husband. It is a very good thing for her though that the MSM will always be there to bail her out. I have to say that the money quote from this article was this line from the conference call:

Another said Russert “should be shot,” before quickly adding that she shouldn’t say that on a conference call.

Now, after saying that let me throw in a Huckabee spin on this whole thing. He recently had a fund drive to raise a little over 1 million and achieved his goal. He has been able to do more with very little than she has been able to do with millions. To me it is almost a picture of what it will be like once that person gets into the presidency...a huge spender or someone that is fiscally responsible.