SubscribeDems Fear Hillary’s ‘Tonya Harding’ Option
From ABC News:
Dems Fear Clinton’s ‘Tonya Harding’ Option
By JAKE TAPPER
March 26, 2008 — It is improbable but, yes, still mathematically possible that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could win the Democratic presidential nomination.
What Democratic officials across the country fear is what Clinton will have to do to party rival Illinois Sen. Barack Obama — who leads in pledged delegates and the popular vote — to make that happen.
"I don’t think she has no chance, but the route for her to victory is so bad for the Democratic Party — it’s to damage Obama so much that people feel he’s not electable," said ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd, a former adviser to President Bush, repeating the sentiments of many in the other party.
One Democratic Party official called Clinton’s strategy "The Tonya Harding Option" — the idea that Clinton’s only path to the gold medal is to destroy her leading competitor…
Who ever doubted that Hillary would go this route?
Except that Mrs. Clinton does not have Tonya Harding’s quiet grace and dignity.
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March 26th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Just to be clear, Tonya Harding has always denied prior knowledge that an assault was planned and she was definitely not present when it happened.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
With Harold Ickes as an adviser I will not be surprised by anything that happens this election cycle. And you can be damn sure if something bad happens HRC will have alibis out the kazoo. FYI, did you know Ickes’ father was on the staff of FDR.
Tom
March 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Oh, this is too rich! All of the things the Clinton’s were loved and admired in the 90’s are now a source of horror and outrage! Opearation Chaos is working beyond anyones wildest dreams! You GO girl!!!! ROFLMAO
March 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Rumor has it she was talking to Jeff Gillooly in a back alley.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
All kinds of people who were inconvenient for the Clintons have died under odd circumstances. While they probably wouldn’t be able to take out Obama, some of his key campaign strategists and workers may be at risk. http://answers.yahoo.com/quest.....220AAjsh51
March 26th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The only protection Her Royal Clinton would have is that He Who Cannot Be Named is from Chi town - so was this a case of HRC pulling a ‘Tonya’ or someone close to Rezko did it to ’silence’ him? Actually it would work to her benefit. . .
March 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Showing his bare knuckles
In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals
[…]
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
[…]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....cs-stories
Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews
The Hatfield’s and the McCoys. It’s going to be bloody!
March 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Petra; …..”The Hatfield’s and the McCoys. It’s going to be bloody!….”
Let’s hope so. As has been said, Obama prevailed in the rough and tumble politics of Chi-town so no one need think he’s some kind of wuss. His strategy from the outset was to lull everyone into thinking he was some kind of gentleman standing above the fray. If there is a poitical arena anywhere that epitomizes the expression “nice guys finish last” it is Chicago. People should have known better. He’s just as nasty as the Clintons, only more subtle. I hope they knock themselves and the democrat party back into the stone ages.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Hillary - As someone on the radio said - ‘Bill Richardson is still alive and well’. So far so good. lol
Obama - We’re discovering a little at a time mostly by his affiliations/assoc. I think he’s got a seething inner jihad going on which has gotta come out as the stress grows but only in unscripted circumstances like the radio interview when he said “typical white person”. Another “affiliation” - Michelle, has no such discipline, Michelle where are you?
March 27th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Poor Tonya Harding, what did she do to get her name dragged in this Democratic Mud?!?! ROFLMAO
March 28th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Quote from original post: “Except that Mrs. Clinton does not have Tonya Harding’s quiet grace and dignity.”
Or a nice set of legs like Tonya has. Can you imagine Tonya doing all those nice jumps and spins with a set of legs like Hillary. She would have cracked the ice and fell through!
I know, I know. It’s an ab hominem attack. I couldn’t resist.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
……”The Tonya Harding Option”….
Boy, if I was Tonya Harding, I’d be pissed! Being compared to Clinton…..I mean, the girl oughta sue for character assasination. Sheesh!!
March 28th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
shudder … brrrrrrrrr
I suddenly had a picture in my head of Tonya, with a silver medal round her neck, under Hilary’s desk.
That’s not nice - forgive me lord and bless the pygmies
March 29th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Poor Hillary, she could ” Tonya Harding” the entire Presidential Candidates from now to eternity and STILL never be elected POTUS! LOL
April 12th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Actually there are two rationales for saying that Hilary might pull a “Tonya Harding”. One is along the lines of a knee-cap attack against her competitor, the attack done by third parties. Kind of like the threat against the whistle-blower in Worldcom which Democrat Eliot Spitzer buried. The other parallel is that Tonya Harding would pull the tears, make up excuses, like a brokern shoe lace on her skate, so that she could get a “do-over”. Hilary’s not winning in the normal primary may lead up to some sort of do-over and FL and MI could help her arguments. But how is either Democrat candidate going to win in the general election if a clear public stand is not taken to call for a Federal Special Prosecutor to examine Eliot Spitzer’s long business dealings with organized crime while he was a Federal and chief State Prosecutor?