{"id":27842,"date":"2007-12-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:30:26","slug":"clinton_inc_sets_up_for_comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/12\/17\/clinton_inc_sets_up_for_comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton, Inc. Sets Up for Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Everybody\u2019s now debating the value of political endorsements since the schoolmarm at the Des Moines Register has engineered an editorial board endorsement of Mrs. Clinton &#8212; and she\u2019s taking that like it\u2019s an endorsement from God in Iowa. It\u2019s something. Bill Clinton is all over the place. Bill Clinton is all over the place, on Charlie Rose on Friday night. He\u2019s all over the place on the weekend, and when I heard him say, &#8216;You know, I think Hillary may not win Iowa,\u2019 my antenna went up. The red flags went up, and I said, &#8216;Here it is. They are setting up the comeback kidette story if she does win Iowa.\u2019 We had that piece by Howard Fineman last Friday in which Fineman wrote that she may lose the first four states, or may not win. She\u2019s in a dead heat in these four early states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada; and then Clinton starts talking about the problems and how much trouble she\u2019s having, and remember I said this. Let\u2019s go back. I\u2019ve said this many times. Let\u2019s go back and listen to me, myself, on this very program on December 10th.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, I don\u2019t know. The conventional wisdom is that she\u2019s in trouble. The conventional wisdom is that the campaign\u2019s imploding. But remember what I said at the very outset. This business of inevitability is one thing, and her desire to want to corner the nomination rather than have to capture it. But the fact is, she also needs to show she can overcome a challenge, and what better challenge to overcome than Oprah Winfrey?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Can you imagine, folks? What, we\u2019re a little over couple weeks away from the Hawkeye Cauci, and they\u2019re setting the stage: &#8216;She can\u2019t win.\u2019 Her own campaign, her own husband\u2019s out there saying, &#8216;It\u2019s a long shot now.\u2019 What if she does win? They\u2019re even trying to set it up now so that she finishes third to Edwards instead of second to Obama. They\u2019re saying they\u2019d much rather if Edwards won Iowa with Hillary in third place. That would make it a much more palatable loss than if she finished second to Obama. I think all this is just setting up this &#8216;comeback kidette\u2019 stuff. This is what they\u2019re familiar with, this is their track record, and we\u2019ll just have to wait and see. This was discussed on the Sunday morning shows yesterday. Let\u2019s go to Stephanopoulos\u2019 show during the roundtable discussion. He had Claire Shipman and Jay Carney. They are husband and wife. Jay Carney works at TIME. Claire Shipman at ABC. They are husband and wife. They\u2019re on the same roundtable together on the Stephanopoulos show, and also Donna Brazile was there. Stephanopoulos says, &#8216;Claire, now Hillary\u2019s campaign is forced to run the campaign that was run against Bill Clinton in \u201992: Change is risky.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignright\"\/>SHIPMAN: You can\u2019t be the candidate of inevitability and suddenly be the underdog. I\u2019m telling you, George, if you talk &#8212; despite this endorsement, which is, has, given everyone a boost &#8212; I mean, the Clinton team is demoralized.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh!<\/p>\n<p>SHIPMAN: You can pick it up from everyone whose finger-pointing, backbiting &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Right.<\/p>\n<p>SHIPMAN: rumors of wholesale change &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>SHIPMAN: &#8212; maybe not now, but after New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: There\u2019s no question about that. It was rife throughout the campaign this week. But I wonder if actually getting hurt, getting knocked back on her heels is the best thing to happen to Hillary Clinton, if, indeed, she can survive it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, depends if she gets knocked back on her heels if she keeps falling. If she keeps falling, gets knocked back on her heels and keeps falling, nobody is going to be interested in that (laughs) in a multitudinous number of ways. Ahem. So here they are. They\u2019re either doing one of two things. You can\u2019t escape the fact that the Drive-Bys are in the tank for Hillary, and so you have to factor that. So this is either genuine and this campaign\u2019s in real trouble, or they\u2019re just setting up this big giant come back. Up next it was Jay Carney. Donna Brazile said, &#8216;Look, I know for a fact that John Edwards is everybody\u2019s second choice in Iowa. He has a great deal of momentum going into the process.\u2019 Stephanopoulos says, &#8216;Well, that\u2019s a very, very important point. Second choices count in Iowa,\u2019 and then Jay Carney, the husband of Claire Shipman, says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: The Clintons are now actively trying to &#8212; to promote John Edwards, and they\u2019d love to see him win because a few weeks ago, a month ago the Clintons were talking about sweeping the table and rushing to the nomination, now they want to prolong this fight as long as they can. <\/p>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: A third place finish to John Edwards may be better than a second place finish to Barack Obama. Obama wins in Iowa, he go &#8212; wins in New Hampshire most likely, and probably moves over South Carolina as well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So it\u2019s up to you and me, together, to figure out what\u2019s really going on here, and time will tell. But I think they\u2019re playing both ends against the middle. I think they\u2019re setting it up for the &#8216;comeback kidette,\u2019 and they\u2019re also setting it up for a bad showing in Iowa to be able to move on to New Hampshire and other places. One thing else. This continues to happen and yet nobody but me and maybe others on our side of the aisle talking about this. But once Bill Clinton is out there trashing Obama! (summarized) &#8216;He\u2019s not ready. He doesn\u2019t have the experience. Here\u2019s only got one year of service,\u2019 and Obama says, &#8216;I\u2019ve been in government ten or 11 years!\u2019 He had a great comeback line for that, which we\u2019ll play in the sound bite roster down the road as the program unfolds today. But here you have the first legitimate, top-tier, black Democrat candidate &#8212; and once again, the Clintons are trashing the guy! They\u2019re trashing him as incompetent. They\u2019re trashing him as too young. They\u2019re trashing him as too inexperienced. They\u2019re trashing him as too calculating. They\u2019re trashing him as not authentic. Look at what they did to Carl McCall. He was running for governor of New York. They trashed Carl McCall. We ended up raising funds for Carl McCall, you and I on this program together, because the DNC and Terry McAuliffe hung him out to dry. Maynard Jackson, the mayor of Atlanta, wanted to be chairman of the DNC. The Clintons moved, said, &#8216;Ain\u2019t no way, pal. Terry McAuliffe\u2019s getting it.\u2019 Whenever blacks get to the point that they\u2019re rising to positions of prominence in the Democrat Party, guess who comes along and slaps them down? Clinton, Inc.! Now, Clinton can get away with this because he was the nation\u2019s &#8216;first black president,\u2019 and, of course, Andrew Young is out there saying, &#8216;Yeah, yeah, he\u2019s been with more black women than Obama has,\u2019 and, of course, (clapping) it\u2019s a big applause line. Wowie, what a great recommendation, and nevertheless here\u2019s the first black president &#8212; and who\u2019s trashing him? It\u2019s not Republicans. It\u2019s not conservatives. It\u2019s the Clintons! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Everybody\u2019s now debating the value of political endorsements since the schoolmarm at the Des Moines Register has engineered an editorial board endorsement of Mrs. Clinton &#8212; and she\u2019s taking that like it\u2019s an endorsement from God in Iowa. It\u2019s something. Bill Clinton is all over the place. 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