GOP Gives Clinton The Silent Treatment

Hillary Clinton's decisive Pennsylvania primary win last week may have reinvigorated her campaign, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the Republican party.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has purchased $500,000 in anti-Barack Obama ads for use in two upcoming special House elections. The Republican National Committee is flooding reporters with anti-Obama emails. Presumptive nominee John McCain and GOP surrogates have seized on new remarks by Obama's controversial former pastor.

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[dadw5boys]

WHO YOU SELLING THIS JUNK TOO?????

ATTACK STORYS ARE IN EVERY PAPER ABOUT HILLARY THIS AND HILLARY THAT HER SUPPORTERS DID THIS AND THAT.

REPUBLICANS DON'T TO ATTACK WHEN THE MEDIA IS DOING IT FOR THEM FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!

[nibblybits]

Whoa. Gone a bit crazy, have you?

Mocking Hillary and calling her a liar is too much fun. She's such an easy target.

[TribunusPlebis]

The GOP's silence about Hillary is tactical: They don't want to do anything to upset whatever chance she may have of becoming the nominee, since she is less electable than Obama. That's why O'Reilly is entertaining her tonight on air, and why Limbaugh -- who's been explicit about it -- has been imploring Republicans to vote for her where possible in primaries.
Today the Gallup Organization has a new poll out, documenting why Hillary is less electable. Called "Top-of-Mind Candidate Perceptions In-Depth," the poll asked voters to name the traits they most associated with the candidates. The trait of Clinton cited most often by voters was "dishonest/don't trust", and three times as many voters felt that way about Clinton than said they felt that way about Obama. About Obama, voters cited 14 positive traits they thought he had, and 10 negative traits. About Clinton, they cited 14 negative traits, and 10 positive traits. (Neutral or ambivalent traits aren't included in these totals.) Can this contrast be any clearer? And if you don't think this will affect the outcome in November, you're overlooking the fact that one of the leading criteria about voting for president that people carry into the privacy of the polling booth is this: Who do I trust more?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106909/TopofMind-Candidate-Perceptions-InDepth.aspx

[going2ireland]

I'm sure Hillary is happy about this - frees her up to only be campaigning against Obama.

Think she will ever figure out that it is because she can't beat McCain and the GOP is attempting to completely discredit Obama so he will lose the nomination - then it will be easy pickings to bring Hillary down?

[nibblybits]

Yes, I'm sure she loves being ignored and considered less than worthy of attention. Irrelevance suits her. Like a nice pantsuit.

[CostaMesaJoe]

Hell, they are already helping her as much as they can...what else does she want?

[lisac63]

They already know who they are gonna be running against and thats who they are gonna be spending the money on. Simple as that. It would be foolish and wasteful to spend money and time bashing someone who is not going to be the nominee.

[nibblybits]

Poor Hillary has become the newspaper at the bottom of the gerbil cage.

[scorpioleidy]

1) Because, like everyone else knows, she is irrelevant and will not be the Dem nominee.

And

2) Because they know Barack is strong and they want to weaken him before the general election

It's all good, though, because despite their efforts, Mr. Obama WILL be the next president of the U.S.

OBAMA '08

[nibblybits]

She's so irrelevant that she should be making us a sandwich.

[stanjz]

This isn't an argument. The Republicans want to run against the Clintons. The only ones spinning this are Clinton supporters and the Republicans.

George Bush, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh have endorsed Senator Clinton.

[going2ireland]

No - they haven't endorsed her. They have made fun of her by trying to fraud the voting process. Get the repugs to cross over during the GE and get Hillary in so she would get the nomination, then make mincemeat out of her in the GE.

[mortrefuge]

At this point the Republicans don't care who the nominee is they just want there to be floor fight at the Dem Convention reminiscent of 1968. Anyone pro Hillary or Obama should be able to see that. That's why Hillary touting McCain's experience and Obama's "elitism" was such a travesty. I'm truly sorry that Hillary ran such a shoddy campaign until Ohio and Texas. It's still no excuse for the divisive tactics that were used to (barely) stay in the race. And the end result is that neither may be able to win in November. Good job Hillary. Good job Hillary supporters. Only McCain and the media wins.

[romanrose]

As well they should ignore her. What does she stand for besides her own ambition? What concepts does she hold dear; is she loyal to beyond her obsessive desire to cement herself in the Oval Office? Maybe someone should interview Lani Guinier about the substance of Mrs. Clinton. Take her seriously indeed. I, and countless millions of others, are hoping that her days of performance art are soon to be over.

[armadillious2002]

Sure they're giving her the silent treatment - they know that at this point she is totally unelectable. And, remember you heard it here, I'll bet that O'Rielly will go easy on her and make her look good tonight in his interview with her. They want this woman as the nominee.

[lisac63]

Of course they want to run against the person they think they can beat. Who wouldn't ?
I read that they are feeling very nervous about the huge crowds Obama has been drawing.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Operation Chaos!

[ann1]

For the life of me I can't figure out why Hillary's supporters are not able to see what's going on.

[Monrocsol]

I cannot see why you Obanists do not realize that your candidate will not win the national election.

[cmeans29]

Because he will win!

[Testtubebaby]

Neither will yours.

[KillTheMessenger]

He will if YOU vote for him. Funny how democracy works, isn't it?

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

McClown by default.

[RThM]

Just because all you see are two eyes sticking up out of the water just off the river bank doen't mean that danger isn't lurking. If they spook the herd, that juicy bit of crippled prey those too eyes are intently focused on might just get away...

[BlackmaninAmerica]

They want to run against Hillary and it hasn't changed even with Wrightgate and Bittergate. If people don't see through the smokescreen, we are in real trouble here.

[JudgeCrater]

Still astonished that anyone thinks Wright's existence/'philosophy' is remotely relevant to Obama. This extremely stupid little tempest-in-a-teapot is proof positive of right wing control of the media.

[rjean]

what a bunch of bs judge.....the right didnt create this mess for hussein....he created it himself by using bad judgement...............................and it is VERY RELEVANT...leave it to a lib to dismiss it as an extermely stupid little "tempest in a teapot"...................more hogwash.........................

how in the HELL can the right wing control the media when all the freaks are LIBS...............

you're CRAZY..................

[Gemma08]

loser... we'll write you off to mccain then. as long as you remember to tell ur grandkids that you voted AGAINST the history-making, nation-building candidate. Even if you lie and say u did... you'll know the truth, regardless.

[LeftLeanWing]

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[the964kid]

The GOP knows what many others already know: the primary race is basically over. Any time, money or efforts spent on Hillary would be a waste of resources. The only reason Obama isn't hitting Hillary hard is because he doesn't want to offend her voters who he'll need in the fall. And Obama doesn't need to get in a street fight with Hillary, because he's already ahead, and he'll be ahead right til the end of the last primary.

[abby4ever]

What a humiliation---to be ignored as if you don't even matter. Or even exist---at least as a candidate. Actually, it is doubly humiliating for Hillary, given how she courted McCain with praise and scorned Obama, and given how like McCain she is in some of her policies.
But she is so focused that I wonder if she has even noticed.

[TrollsTakeYourMedstoo]

I don't think she is the least bit "humiliated". I think she is just sitting back watching to see how Obama handles finally being vetted. And if it were truly over, all of the so-called in-the-pocket Supers for Obama would have already come out and ended this thing. She knows it's not over. Her supporters know it's not over. And the supers surely know it's not over. They will put her up if she continues to beat McCain in the polls (which she is doing) and McCain continues to beat Obama in the polls. Wait and see. Most of them are seasoned politicians and want the White House. They don't want to win a popularity contest with their party.

[filo]

Watch Fixed News (I know it's hard ), check out The Hillary Movie. They WANT Hilliary. Several Republicans are praising her. They are not being silent.

What do you think that means.

[kidrio]

Hillary is a fighter. She really believes that she can win. What she is forgetting is that everything has a price. The price she is paying effects all of of that were hoping that we could make a change from politics as usual to politics as we have grown accustomed to. That is a shame. Reverend Wright has damaged Obama in many ways, the most obvious is that he needs to deal with it on the stump, rather than the issues.

I have been a republican for a long time and for the first time in my life I donated money to a democrat in hopes of voting for Obama. Right now, Ron Paul is looking good to me.

[LannyMacD]

I think it is obvious that the Republicans have a substantial dosier of dirt on the Clintons and have that as their ace in the hole for the GE. I'm pretty sure they are 100% confident that they will beat the Clintons into submission using this dirt once the elction gets rolling. Their only hope is to make sure that they actually get to use that information, and the only way to do that is to make sure Obama does NOT get the nomination. They will encourage as many people as possible to lean Clinton's way just so they can bury them in the fall. It's a perfect strategy and has been used many times in the past. Defeat the hardest challenge first, then steam roll the challenge that you already have defeated in the past.

[jazkiljok]

if the GOP tells you they want to run against HIllary then that's who they think they can beat-- Obama is going thru the so called vetted stuff now-- and it's really not a bad thing given the Republican's use of this pointless but emotion driven crap- but wright, ayers and rezko are already charting "sick of hearing about it" territory-- just like Bill and his endless parade of sex-scandals during his primary run-- it gets old when it's not really about the economy, war, gas, etc. and the more you hear about it now-- the less important it will be in the general election--that is why it's important for the GOP to pounce on it now and get Obama out and HIllary in.

good luck on that.

[Grunty1]

We all know that the GOP cannot say anything good about even a name-only Democrat, so they will say nothing at all.

[NewMexicoForObama]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/35337.html
She's still lying and a lot of people are still believing.

[ejay579]

They know the low hanging fruit will be exactly that in November, low hanging fruit.

[RonNYC]

The GOP obviously wants to run against Hillary. She is easily beatable by their core base. No secret. And I am sure all the defections to the democratic party is a ploy to make her the nominee as well. She is toast in the General Election. She is blind to this and thinks people actually like her, like Sally Field.

[DakotaMinnesota]

Exactly.