More

Ryan J. Davis

Ryan J. Davis

Posted: April 9, 2008 12:34 PM

The Vanity Campaign


It's very hard to take Hillary Clinton seriously these days. Yesterday, I received three e-mails begging for donations to her broke and seriously mismanaged campaign. I feel sorry for her donors (not the defense contractors or pharmaceutical executives, but the real people) having to continue to throw good money in after bad. In the market, we call that "averaging down."

Her e-mails have a pathetic tone, whining and complaining over being "outspent" in Pennsylvania. Hillary, you're running a vanity campaign now. You need to take some of that hundred million dollars you're worth and spend it on ads. Nobody is going to donate to a campaign that can't win -- it's a terrible investment. This is your campaign now, you have to personally fund it. Ask Mitt Romney to join your campaign as a vanity adviser. I doubt he'll charge you $14 million like Mark Penn did.

From The Hill's Pundit Blog.

Follow Ryan J. Davis on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ryannewyork

 
 
  • Comments
  • 10
  • Pending Comments
  • 0
  • View FAQ
Comments are closed for this entry
View All
Recency  | 
Popularity
05:40 PM on 04/09/2008
For the record, I don't hate HRC; I just can't support her. The thing that absolutely baffles me is how anyone can support a "MIS-SPEAKER DUE TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION". You know when she was in Bosnia and received sniper fire, (but the tapes proved otherwise), I just wanted to know the TRUTH. I really can’t understand how anyone, male or female, can support her knowing that this was absolutely FALSE. What angers me almost as much as HRC repeating this very distorted story is the fact that Chelsea was also there and never once did she say, ‘Mom please don't exaggerate that story because it is not true’. So what are we supposed to think about Chelsea? And another offender is Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC news). She was also along on that trip and never once did she tell the public that this story was not true, but an embellishment of the worst type! She sat in COMPLETE SILENCE presenting the news every day and never said a word. It took a comedian (Sinbad) to dispute this story. So, when people either sit in silence or don't tell someone (even if it is her mother) her not to restate a falsehood, what hope is there for TRUTH? But more importantly, how can ANYONE believe further from HRC? How can anyone ‘support’ a LIAR? I have been asking this for months, so if anyone can give me an answer, I promise honestly, I will listen because I want to understand. Anyone???
03:06 PM on 04/09/2008
Did he really get paid $14 million to run her campaign? Wow. I mean, I could tell he eats well, but I had no idea.
How much would he get if he were competent?
Does he get paid more or less because he has no scruples?
02:34 PM on 04/09/2008
Hillary is running the anit-feminist campaign.

As a member of the Hillary demographic, I was bothered and concerned by the fake crying in NH. But that was just a start. The emotional roller coaster of saccharine sweet condescension followed by wild-eyed shaming didn’t help. Then the whining and passive-aggressive Tracy Flick I’m-OK-if-you-bullies-ask-me-the-first-question victimhood, followed by a wild string of alternating bully-victim, lying, and still more victimy accusations added to my disappointment. She then starts into her Rocky phase with the bluster of Popeye the sailor man meets Bluto! In the next breath she is complaining about how long it takes for her to get gorgeous for us all each day. And the BLAMING!!! It is the media, it’s the old boys club, it’s the humidity…Oh…PLEASE…DO…NOT…SAY..she went to grooming issues? Any REAL feminists--the ones who work in the REAL world--out here are DYING from this shameful display and we are BEGGING her to JUST STOP THIS EMBARRASSMENT. Keep running if you must, but get ahold of yourself!

The news media says I am her demgraphic, but she DOES NOT represent me!!!!
03:09 PM on 04/09/2008
My wife (of 33 years) is livid at her playing the "glass ceiling" card. Quoting my wife, "I'd like a woman president, but one who made it on her own, not one who only got the public eye because of "wife of" - how demeaning to women".

I love my wife ;-)
03:25 PM on 04/09/2008
Thanks DoninJoisey! The day will come that we get a woman who makes your wife and all of us--male and female--proud. It just isn't Hillary Clinton.
jhNY
Mercy.
02:25 PM on 04/09/2008
I think I get it-- if everybody just derides Hillary Clinton and shovels bales of snark and disrespect in her general direction, she'll have to run home crying and we can all go out and buy new threads for Obama's coronation without having to wait for his victory announcement next week in PA, which, incidentally, will never come.
02:39 PM on 04/09/2008
For the record I hate Hillary because she is evil not because she lacks a penis... as far as i know
03:20 PM on 04/09/2008
Nice spinning.
1) She started with the disrespect - Bill and "Jesse Jackson won S.C., too) and she with "McCain and I are qualified, Obama gave a speech".
2) Coronation has been used nearly exclusively with regard to HRC (Her Royal Clinton)
3) It is likely that Pennsylvania won't come to it's senses in time to defeat Hillary.
4) I dislike liars, be they male or female. You cannot dispute that she has lied - repeatedly - NAFTA, SCHIPS, Iraq vote ("It wasn't a vote to invade Iraq"), N Ireland peace, Bosnia snipers, "I spoke out against Iraq before Obama did". Doesn't that bother you?
5) "I believe I can win" - does belief in the face of overwhelming facts remind you of anybody? I'll give a clue - "stay the course".
02:20 PM on 04/09/2008
I'm disgusted by the fact that Hillary Clinton's right-hand man, Mark Penn, is a lobbyist for Blackwater Worldwide, Countrywide Financial, big tobacco, and the Columbian Free Trade Agreement, among others.

It's so hypocritical that the man running her campaigns was such a lobbyist piece of scum. He was paid 10% of all the campaign donations! Do we want people like Mark Penn on her presidential cabinet or SCOTUS?
01:16 PM on 04/09/2008
Oh, man, you're really gonna piss off Taylor Marsh now!!! I'd take cover if I were you, the ladies over at Taylor's blog are ready to start taking people out who critize their girl. You in trouble, baaaaad trouble.