NO RETREAT, BABY, NO SURRENDER: "Upon more questioning, the campaign advisers acknowledged some hard truths. Even if the Florida and Michigan delegations were seated, it would not be enough for a win. The financial health of the campaign appeared grim — Mrs. Clinton loaned herself $6 million last month, and she is prepared to donate more. And if there was good news to share about overnight on-line fund-raising totals, Mr. Wolfson did not mention it." [New York Times]
3:40 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Ken Layne
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so did that ten million include this six million?! so many millionz are being wasted on this! she should just donate it to africa or something.
She's not going to concede until she's gotten some of her sucker supporters to fork over more $$$ so she can pay herself back.
Hillary should give some of that money to Vince McMahon, so she can get back on the WWE Raw.
I think she needs a blimp.
Unless of course, it's included in the deal. The DNC or Obama or whoever pays her back, and then she agrees to quit. Sounds a little like a shake down to me...
Apparently, the 11 million she has donated to her campaign so far is greater than her whole income from the Senate and from booksales. Which means, basically, that Bill's funding this thing.
I can't wait till he kneecaps her when she fails to pay the debt.
Why won't this bitch die?
@baldbaby: with the three-testicle BlimpNutz feature.
Appeal to Superdelegates, Superman, Superwoman, Superdog, Superchicken...
Please declare and put a fucking fork in this thing.
Love the "sociopaths" tag. Exactly.
Hillary's Downfall
But, if you include the votes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Satan, Hillary wins in a landslide. Why do you pro-Obama people refuse to accept this?
When you loan yourself money, wtf happens when you default? Do you put a lien on yourself? Time to start REALLY pimpin' Chelsea.
@jagorev: Maybe this is some weird form of couples therapy and we're all just paying the price.
Did Hillary watch Highlander too many times? I'm still not hearing Queen in the background when I see her.
No debt or loss or impending doom can crack Hillary's mood. Smile on, you crazy whore diamond!
she can feel the pain of the middle class living in debt...
but if she stays in the race maybe she can raise enough money to pay herself...
Super catty there about Wolfson. Love it when the Grey Lady gets bitchy.
Fork'd.
She's gone beyond Toast and straight to way-past-its-sell-by-date off-brand breadcrumbs. Like the ones you find on the clearance aisle at the Dollar Tree.
@jagorev: Bill's taken to staring off into space, quietly calculating how many interns, lap dances, three-diamond whores this money could have bought.
Hillary will stay in the primary race until the end, so that she can try to recover her campaign debts through continuing to raise donations, and so that she can hold out for a brokered convention.
By "brokered," of course, I mean "stolen at knife point by elderly rich white female truckers from states that do not both begin and end with a vowel and who vote before noon."
@stolichnaya: "And if there was good news to share about overnight on-line fund-raising totals, Mr. Wolfson, bedecked in one of the absurdist sweaters for which he has become a minor celebrity on the campaign trail, did not mention it."
Left on the editing floor, I presume.
Wolfson's just hoping to get pennies on the dollars he's owed for engineering a gigantic campaign collapse. Good luck on that; most of the rest of the staff is being paid in turnips.
...which really helps her argument about knowing the Middle Class' financial hardship pain which is why saving $30 all summer during her gas tax holiday is a Big Deal and Serious Business.
Mind you, they've shelled out more in personal funds than the total income reported on the Obama taxes for the last 3 years. True story.
@superfectablog: I am, but it's "We Are The Champions," which is not in the Highlander soundtrack... so far as I know.
we interrupt this snark session for a moment of "holy crap": 100K dead now estimated in Burma. 100K.
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Wait a minute. EVEN IF Michigan and Florida are seated it still won't be enough for her to win?
(quiet thought)
She REALLY has this masochistic-victim-burn-the-party-to-the-ground thing down.
@NoWireHangers: Yes, I am beginning to think she truly is insane or wants McCain to win somehow.
@jagorev: What do you think that lovely shade of red on Bill's face was about when he was standing behind her while she bloviated about how well she did in Indiana.
I think we can all agree that her campaign in West Virginia is just about guaranteed to be the most spectacular combination of pandering and general asshattery that any of us have ever seen.
@scotterl: The story is its because he got sunburned from doing his Bubba routine in "small towns" (read: all white communities) for the past week.
@Doglessliberal: Good God. And this is before all of the famine/disease sets in.
@Doglessliberal: Her diabolical master plan could be (dare I think it) "I'll do all I can to screw Obama and fuck the party so that Obama loses to McCain. Then I'll cry 'I told you so' and be the nominee in 2012."
@Dave J.:
I just assumed there was a major arguement between them before they came out, and she reduced him to tears.
@Doglessliberal: Holy crap indeed. And Bush has the unmitigated gall to keep critizing the Burmese government for lack of timely response. Fucking bastard.
@Dave J.: Part of his blending in with the local neck color?
Can we organize an American version of 'Maggie Out' for her?
Hil's New Anthem (courtesy of Rick Astley)
I'm no stranger to fights
I'll bend the rules and so I will
A long bloody fight what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other gal
I just wanna tell you how I'm "winning"
Gotta make you realize it
* never gonna give it up
Always gonna kick you down
Never gonna run around and support you
Always gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Always gonna tell some lies to hurt you
We've fought each other for so long
Your head's been aching
But you're too weak to say it
Inside we both know whats been going on
I'll break the game and I'm gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too to see
@NoWireHangers: Hillary wouldn't stand a chance running against Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2012.
@queeraselvis: This Admin wins the Unmitigated Gall/Hubris/Arrogance Prize. Hands down. Though the Hillary and Bill Show is close on the hubris. And come to think of it, on the arrogance and unmitigated gall.
@queeraselvis: Would it be impolitic of the Burmese government to bring up the over 100,000 dead Iraqis to fuck face and tell him to shut the fuck up??
6 million is the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust. Coincidence? We demand reparations, Hitlery.
Notice the imbalance of her front teeth from Bill hitting her in the face all the time. Man, that guy is really losing it.
@Dave J.: Yeah. I am actually stoked that she's not dropping out before West Virginia and Kentucky. I cannot wait to see her drinking moonshine astride a double-wide while giving a bitchin' Jews Harp solo. She better not try it on Arsenio, though.
PS: She was probably the one who doctored the Mickey Kantor "white nigger" tape to win votes in West Virginia.
@IrasGlasses: Goddamn I love that photo. Chelsea may be too clueless to see what's going on, but Bill clearly recognizes this as the exact moment his wife has chosen to go completely yak-shit insane.
@IrasGlasses: We can rest assured that while the Republicans may want the Governator to run, they're all too xenophobic to do anything about the ban on naturalized citizens.
She's paying for the donuts and BBQ in KY and WV; at least the pricks on her staff can eat and shut the fuck up while doing so, please.
All I want is a concession speech moment to rival this one:
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@shortsshortsshorts: Oh my god, those teeth are horrendous. Does she think England has a vote now? Maybe she is trying to overturn the American Revolution. Then she shall be queen.
Almost Haiku-like musing:
Hillary out
Obama in
McCain win
@LittlePig: Now THAT is a recipe for a beltway pile up. Bring on the Blimp Nutz.
@shortsshortsshorts: I never noticed that before. I wonder if one of those is fake--my mom has front teeth like that, and one of hers is fake (caused by fainting while hiking one day and falling face first into a pile of rocks).
@Dave J.: A tall order, my friend. That one is in the Schadenfreude Hall of Fame
@Dave J.: Are you sure it wasn't Bill Clinton beating her to a crisp?
According to Mr. Miyagi, there is no half-way. She either concedes with little fanfare . . . or burns the whole Party to the fuckin' ground. Which, in Denver, is still a mile above sea level.
@ManchuCandidate: What I wouldn't give for someone to Rickroll Hillary, convincing her that 'Never Gonna Give You Up' would make a great campaign song...
"all the kids love this song Hillary, it skews towards Obama supporters, blah blah"
But I guess to be a true rickroll, they'd just play it at her next event without telling her.
....and in W. Va, Hillary will reveal that she's a coal miner in her spare time
I wonder if Hillbot's getting an early form of "meth mouth"... makes sense, if she wants to prove she's with the bitters, she'll need to take up all their habits. None of that elitist powdered cocaine like that elitist Barry, no siree!
...at this point if she is holding out to have someone else pay her tab, I think she should got HELL! She has known for over 3 months that it was mathematically impossible for her to win. But instead of her to go out with a little class and dignity she decided to stay in and damage Obama. And as if that wasnt enough she was constantly hitting her supporters up for cash; while we are in the middle of one of the shittiest economic downturns in history. All the while knowing she had a snowballs chance in hell to win. Since she is always running around telling people Obama is an elitist and she is the one that "feels their pain" she should eat this bill and really feel how bad it hurts to be broke. BITCH!!!
@Doglessliberal:
What a perfect opportunity for Bill to put on his "humanity hat" and head to a devestated country (not our own) with George H. W. to head up the relief efforts.
And, get out of Dodge while his wife's campaign implodes.
Good Lord, this woman needs to be staked through the heart in a casket of her home earth. The soil of Illinois, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New York or DC will do for these purposes.
@ManchuCandidate: ftw.
And when she finally capitulates, it'll be all "Cry For Help."
@AngryBlakGuy: Well, to be fair she does court the idiot vote and if you're idiotic enough to send her money then perhaps it all works out in the end.
Some are even speculating that Barry's campaign will repay her debts, once she gets the fuck out. Which would be awesome, 'cause then he could make her wash his car, go out for smokes, be his personal maid, etc.
@KenLayne: ...may I suggest we rename this article: "NO RETREAT, BABY, NO SURRENDER & NO REFUND!!!"
I'm sorry but she scares the SHIT outta me.
@El Bombastico: LOL she would be his Benson... when she could finally be Lt. Governor.
@WadISay: Hey, she's coming here to Oregon next week, so I imagine we're about to hear about her inspiring upbringing on the small island in Crater Lake or whatever.
and needs to go NOW
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I am making the 70th comment because the number 69 carries a sexual connotation, which will then require that we kill lots of babies with pills.
@AngryBob:
Hillary out
McCain in
Obama win
there, fixed that for you.
Unfortunately the relentless misogyny being expressed toward Hillary in every possible venue is driving a lot of Democratic females including myself running and screaming to the Republicans for the first time in their lives.
@AngryBob: No offense, but were you born out of your mother's ass? I can't believe I passed over that comment without noticing. Give me one non-convoluted reason that WALNUTS! has a chance of fucking winning? You have 10 minutes.
Hahaha, Dems. You know who hates you more than the Republicans? Hillary, that's who hates you the most.
@TEAM HEIDI: We are repelled by Hillary the CANDIDATE, not the woman.
Does that make you feel better?
And as a woman, it is really a bummer for me to see her resorting to lunatic spin as a way to justify staying in this race. Today she actually said "it's still EARLY " in this contest and "if we picked a candidate the way the Republicans do I would have won already".
She needs to go NOW.
@marSF: I am personally appalled at her being a woman, because I don't believe she is human in the first place.
@marSF: A lot of the newscasters like that Whack Job on MSNBC are acting waaaaaay to misogynist. I think that they are seriously risking swinging not just a lot of women but a lot of moderate voters who are repelled by all the ganging up on Hillary to McCain's quarter. If she wants to keep running through June I don't see the harm. Obama will get more attention than if she didn't run.
Hillary Clinton will be the next president, you guys watch! I mean it!
@TEAM HEIDI: Well, if some women are stupid enough to risk the reproductive rights they've been fighting for the past fifty years or more over some supposed ganging up on Clinton (because it's not like her people, y'know, have been hooking up with the GOP to knock out Obama; Rush Limbaugh and Bill have always been famous friends), I guess I don't know what to say. But the harm, since you don't see it, isn't that Obama doesn't get attention -- it's that McCain doesn't. The longer Obama is dealing with Clinton, the less time and money he has to deal with the real race.
@TEAM HEIDI: It's actually "too mysogynistic". But that was a good try for a girl.
@TEAM HEIDI: Any woman that would let McCain pick the next two (or more) Supreme Court Justices needs to surrender her uterus and ovaries after she exits the voting booth.
I don't know which "Whack Job" you are speaking of but when I saw Hillary getting cozy with O'Reilly and Scaife it became clear to me that she had thrown her principles so far out the window that she was never getting them back.
If female voters decide to take out their anger on male political pundits by deciding to hate Obama, that seems pretty fucking irrational to me. Call the networks if you want but lets not flush the entire country down the toilet, okay?
@moff: You beat me to it.....
@TEAM HEIDI: As a girl, I'd like to think women are capable of rational thought and would realize that your scenario would screw them over in longer, more lasting ways, then whether or not someone was "mean" to Hillary.
So instead of saying women are dumb, I'm just going to say you're dumb, for having said that.