Howard Fineman,
The Horse's official 2002 Media Whore of the Year, continues to stir the pot, by offering his latest, overheard, and entirely unwelcome
Hillary-enters-the-race scenario at the Newsweek website.
Be prepared, to watch in amazement, as Fineman attempts yet again to bury our Democratic candidates before one vote has even been cast.
He has no shame, but then again, we all knew that already. Read at your own risk. :-)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/994172.asp?0dm=s11Ck&cp1=1Excerpt:
THE SCENARIO, as sketched by this hard-boiled insider, calls for Clinton to make an entrance as healer and unifier at the end of the primary season in May or June in the unlikely—but not impossible—event that none of the existing contenders has amassed a majority of the convention delegates. “You’d have to have Howard Dean not wrapping it up, and being an angry, wounded front runner,” this adviser said. “You’d have to have two of the other challengers tearing each other apart in primary after primary. Then Hillary could come in, well in advance of the convention, and say, ‘Look, somebody has to save the party’.”
The political logistics are doable. Under party rules, delegates are bound to vote at the convention for the candidate under whose banner they were elected in the primaries—but only on the first ballot. Party and elected officials—the so-called superdelegates—are free to shift allegiance, and could form an instant core of Clinton support. Should she make a dramatic entrance next summer, the senator might be able to draw on the help of some savvy campaign veterans (and Clinton loyalists) now in the employ of other candidates. If Sen. Joe Lieberman’s campaign fades, for example, she might recruit his top pros, media handler Mandy Grunwald and pollster Mark Penn.
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