Ready to Fight
May 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm by Susie
That’s why I like her:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was the original impetus behind the Senate Democratic “war room,” a legacy the candidate does not mention on the campaign trail but one that has significantly changed the upper chamber.
The war room is the name for the communications center that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) created after the disastrous 2004 election, when Democrats lost four Senate seats, including the seat held by former Democratic leader Tom Daschle (S.D.).
The war room has been credited for revolutionizing message strategy in the Senate but also criticized for creating a permanent campaign atmosphere in a chamber that has long prided itself on collegiality and across-the-aisle relationships.
Clinton was one of the first and most forceful advocates of establishing a campaign-style communications center in the Senate. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, pioneered the use of a rapid-response campaign center during his successful 1992 run, chronicled in the 1993 D.A. Pennebaker documentary “The War Room.”
Clinton first proposed a Senate war room while Daschle was the Senate Democratic leader, but the soft-spoken South Dakotan declined to implement her idea, said Ross K. Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University who on Friday finished a five-month stint as a guest observer working in Reid’s leadership office.
Daschle did not respond to several requests for comment.
Let’s see how much you like her if the poll done by Rasmussen predicts anything. 20% of those polled wanted her to run as an independent if (when) the Democratic nomination goes to Obama. So, you who like her, would she do that? And if she does, will you still like her?
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Makeit 29%. Typo. Sorry
There is no way that I can see Clinton running as an independent. Whatever else you may think of Bill & Hillary Clinton, they have been committed to the Democratic party and have no major policy differences with the party. Running as an independent could make sense for a candidate who has an important ideological point to make. But running as an independent against someone who basically shares the same policy platform just makes no sense at all. I can’t believe she would be stupid enough to do that, and no, I would certainly not support that. (Speaking as just one person who voted for Clinton.)
Okay, I don’t get any connection between the results of a Rasmussen poll and the War room.
Do you think this stay-on-the-message center is working? Will it end with a legion of drones in lock-step, like the Republican Party?
Or is that what Obama is trying to do? Like the t-shirt says, if I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.