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And So It Begins…
CBSNews.com’s Politico blog has a story up on the “changing tactics” of the Clinton campaign after her third place finish in Iowa. Read “changing tactics” as mudslinging and you’re pretty much right on target.
Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to target what her campaign calls Barack Obama’s inexperience over the next five days in New Hampshire and deliver much sharper - and likely much more personal and negative - attacks against the Iowa winner, according to Democrats familiar with the evolving strategy.
Well, the he’s a rookie line didn’t work. The Think we will see a whisper campaign about his drug use similar to Bush’s attacks on McCain in South Carolina in 2000? I think there are a lot of parallels between the races and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Clinton campaign look to that race to see how quick the “insurgent” campaign can be trounced by a candidate willing to sink to that level. And I have no doubts the Clinton campaign can sink to that level and probably will (which is a big reason I can’t support her even if I wanted to).
I really hope that she doesn’t go nuclear to try and win the nomination because that will simply turn off even more voters to her campaign. I’d rather she try her husband’s strategy of hope rather Karl Rove’s strategy of 50% + 1 and damn the consequences. We’ll see which way she goes.
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