Clinton Keeps Up Fight as Staff Tenions Rise - Kool Aid Drinkers want her to keep fighting

[powergirl]

Who are the Kool Aid Drinkers now?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121121426734803879.html?mod=hps_us_pageone

However, faced with growing pressure to drop out of the race, Sen. Clinton is getting hit with conflicting advice from within her own camp. Some of her top strategists are warning that she is injuring her political future by staying in. Others -- notably her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and strategist Mark Penn -- are urging her to remain in the race. She has beaten Sen. Barack Obama in key swing states, they argue.

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Inside her campaign, Sen. Clinton isn't asking for advice, forcing advisers to hold off discussions on what she wants from the process if she loses -- from dealing with campaign debt, to her role in an Obama bid for the White House. "The campaign has broken down to those who drink the Kool-Aid that Hillary can still win, and those who don't, and are considering their options," one operative said.

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In an effort to keep financial backers in the tent, Sen. Clinton hosted them at a cocktail party at her Washington, D.C., residence last week. When she came downstairs to greet the 50 or so guests, Sen. Clinton laid out how she could still win the nomination: Beat Sen. Obama in the popular vote, then persuade the superdelegates to vote for her on the theory that she would be better able to beat Sen. McCain in November. According to two attendees, she said, "I'd get out if I believed he had a better chance to win than I do."

Some big donors have told her campaign that it's getting tough to raise more money. "It's very difficult to get any new major donors at this point," said one important backer. "There will be no more million-dollar events."

Meantime, Roger Altman -- the investment banker and former deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton -- has advised Sen. Clinton that the time has come for her to drop out of the race, according to people close to the campaign.



So thirsty, so very very thirsty . . . :beer:

[lapfog_1]

1. Funny thing is... people throw around the phrase "Kool Aid drinkers"

without remembering what really happened to those that drank the Kool Aid from whence the phrase is derived.

[powergirl]

2. I know - Jim Jones

blind allegiance regardless of the lethal consequences.

[Heather MC]

8. Tragically, a lot of the Jim Jones folks were forced to drink the Kool-Aid

His own son refused to do it.
I wonder how many people Hillbilly is forcing to commit political suicide?

[NashVegas]

5. Yep

They drank it so they wouldn't have to face the reality they and their messiah were busted.

Clinton needs to stay in the race through the rest of the primaries, win or lose. She risks her political future more by dropping out now, when she's so close - and the average voter knows little to nothing of the backstage maneuvering against her that we all take for granted.

[pocoloco]

7. She needs to stay in because she is a cash cow for her

advisor's who really deserve it for being able to blow enough smoke up someone's ass to make her believe she had a chance with a 47% disapproval rating before she even entered the race.

[NashVegas]

9. Thanks So Much for Your Thoughtful Response

Have a lovely day.

:hi:

[AllentownJake]

3. When the money dries up

You have to quit. Tommorow is going to be a very bad news day for her on the fundraising and Oregon loss.

[ErinBerin84]

4. part of the reason why I don't really want Ed Rendel to be VP

is because of his Kool Aid drinkers comment to college kids. I mean, it's one thing to say something like that to the media, but to say it to the face of actual supporters?

[Catherina]

6. Movie of HRC coming down the staircase to greet the 50 guests

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWaL1XnUPN0

When these primaries are over, she's going to need a skilled psychiatrist. Shame on Bill Clinton for not being the true friend she needs right now and sitting her down to face reality.

[msongs]

10. another "people who believe in democracy are scum thread". ok . She has

every constitutionally protected right to remain as a candidate if she wishes. to the end. to the last legal breath.
who cares if she stays in? its all free publicity that keeps McCain out of the light.

If we are gonna be stuck with her or Obama instead of a real non-imperialist progressive, let it go on for a few more months.

Beats watching american i-dull.

Msongs

[muryan]

13. We need McCain in the light

The more people see how he has morphed into Bush, the less people will be enamored with the "2000 McCain" and realize just what he has become. He's been running ads in Ohio for the past month and all of them are about global warming, jobs, and health care. But because we're stuck in a primary we dont have the opportunity to combat these ads, most of which are aimed at centrist voters

[mcctatas]

11. Remember how chimpy said he would stay in Iraq if the only

ones left supporting him were Laura and Barney?....

Just sayin'

[Zachstar]

12. Her own campaign is coming apart at the seams.