Hillary throws 1 million voters under the bus

The tape of Hillary whining to her elite supporters has been well documented.  I would like to add my angle on this back-stabbing moment.  

First, by blaming the Moveon.org movement, she was whinging to her big donors that it wasn't Obama's magnificant organization and grass roots movement, it was this weird lefty movement that screwed everything up.  She tried to spin them as an unforeseen monkey wrench thrown in as a third party and that no one could blame her for these radicals.

Of course, the vote Moveon.org vote for endorsing a candidate was not a smoke filled back room committee decided by Carville's and his ilk. No, it was another vote she lost big time.  But it was not unanimous.  She still received over 29% of the vote!  And if the vote was a representative sample of the membership, and I'm sure it that and more, she just threw 960,000, or nearly 1 million supporters under the bus.

Carville will be happy, no doubt. He thinks that the progressive movement is to the Dems like the religious right is to the thugs. Except not.

Simple poll below, I'm curious.

•  I'd have to vote...

  ..."maybe." Who knows what's in her campaign's "head?" Interesting observation about the 29%. I'd thought about that too. I think it's entirely possible that Hill's camp leaked this for the exact reason you mention. But we'll probably never know for sure. It seems unlikely as she must know that, overall...nationally, it can't help her.

  by nehark on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:37:35 PM PDT

  •  Isn't bush's number similar?

        Heh- The 28% approval rating?

       

    by last patriot left on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 10:39:45 PM PDT

•  Disaffected former Clinton supporter

  leaked it, I think. If this is deliberate strategy, it poisons the well so badly, she'd have to be out of her mind.

  [OK, so maybe she is].

  by shpilk on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:39:33 PM PDT

•  Breaking (but consider the source)

  The people who were saying yesterday to not get too excited about the move-on stuff may have been right. My DD is all twitterpated about the fact that the audio tape at HuffPO may have been spliced out of context from 2 separate quotes, possibly changing the meaning. I don't know it seems like this may be a purposeful plant  of a story like GWB's guard service story with Dan Rather. Am I nuts? It did seem too perfect and well timed. What do you think?

  I just had this in another thread but thought it was relevant to you.

  by woodstock007 on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:43:43 PM PDT

  •  Wolfson confirmed it happened by

    saying 'So what??' a la Dick Cheney.
    So I wouldn't doubt huffpo.

    by soms on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:54:35 PM PDT

    •  Yeah I know

      But this could be the consultant style smear.Just sayin'. I think the damage is done but I don't trust how obvious this one was. I don't trust it.

      by woodstock007 on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:58:05 PM PDT

  •  who cares.

    MyDD is unhinged, and all the meat is in the second quote anyhow:

    We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. You know MoveOn.org didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And they turn out in great numbers. And they are you know very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.

    by pb on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 10:40:39 PM PDT

    •  What a weeenie.

      Jesh, Hillary, just STFU slready!

      by koNko on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:54:25 PM PDT

  •  I doubt it.

    If that was the case, the Clinton Campaign would have already jumped on it and would be pointing fingers at Obama.

    MyDD is pretty hardcore Clinton territory, you can read all kinds of ammusing dtuff there.

    by koNko on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:52:51 PM PDT

•  She just lost 30,000 voters in PA as

  that is how many are Move-on members.

  by ajleiker on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 09:45:56 PM PDT

  •  Even Non-Members MoveOn Is The Most Respected

    Democratic Supporting Organization. They are on top and they always will be.

    They stood up for Bill Clinton when he was being Impeached now Hillary stabs them in the back. Classic "classy" Clinton reaction.

    Hillary Clinton: Yes, Yes, Yes. They helped us when we needed them most but SCREW 'EM.

    by DFutureIsNow on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 10:24:44 PM PDT

•  That's one big ass bus

  by John Campanelli on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 10:14:40 PM PDT

•  She's not only throwing 1 million

  voters, but also throwing her political career and that of her husband and her beloved Chelsea to the dustbin of history. By the time the election finished in November, the Clintons and the Clintonites would have been remembered as the ultimate illustration of what's wrong with political greediness and undeserved ambition..

  by jakartaman on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 10:28:41 PM PDT

•  what else is new

  n/t

  by pollwatch on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 01:56:22 AM PDT