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Democrats: The new Republicans; or, It's our turn

By Michael J. Smith on Thursday April 26, 2007 10:06 PM

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3419.html
Dems Swamp GOP in Money Chase

In the much-watched first quarter of presidential fundraising, the Democratic candidates raised more than twice as much as their Republican counterparts.... the combined Democratic field raised about $80 million, compared with roughly $40 million collected by their GOP adversaries.

In 1999, the last presidential race without an incumbent in the race, Republicans raised $33 million in the first quarter, compared with $13 million by the Democrats, according to the Campaign Finance Institute. The disparity was also evident in 1988, when the Republican field reported $19 million in first-quarter fundraising, compared with $3 million by the Democrats.

Looks like the money guys -- and gals, of course -- are placing their bets on red rather than black, odd rather than even. The A-team brand needs a little R&R; it's been over-sold. Bring on the B-team!

Make hay while the sun shines, B-teamers. It doesn't take people that long to forget. You might get four years, and if you're really, really, exceptionally lucky, another four on top of that -- like the Edenic Clinton era. Find a guy, or gal, sufficiently cold and controlled and inhuman that a zaftig intern in a thong won't appeal to him or her, and you're golden.

I daresay either Hillary or Barack would fill the bill. In fact I think they're the same person. You never see 'em together, do you?

Comments (3)

Sorry, MJ, but I saw a foto of them together shaking hands and smiling on the front page of the WashPost this morning, taken just after the "debate" which I only vaguely knew was happening -- straight off the front stoop, before I'd even had a chance to feed the cats and have a cuppa, which, of course, made it an even more gruesome sight. Of course, then again, it could've been Photoshop.

At this point -- as long as we're on the horrid subject of Hillary'n'Barack, Sittin' On A Ticket, Sorry I Can't Think Of A Spelling Rhyme After That -- I really have to defy the conventional wisdom here (inasmuch as the wisdom here could possibly be conventional) and say that if Hillary's nominated, Obombirana will get the VP nod, and vice versa, if only because the DP has had a history of shallow pandering to the progressive baseheads...uh, sorry, base...going back at least to the First Clinton Era, if not before.

(Remember the week Jerry Garcia died? Well, losing Jerry was bad enough, but he also had the misfortune to clock out during the week that President Bill was kicking off his anti-teen smoking campaign -- which, of course, came hot on the heels of his wildly-successful post-OKC-bombing anti-terrorism campaign. Prez Bill opened up with this big speech about the dangers of teen smoking with a comment on how we'd just lost one of the greatest creative minds of our generation and wrapping up with words to the effect of "Just Say No, kids -- look what happened to Jerry!")

op:

lovely
what happens when the two mikes
get on a case .....
now we're going to get
one for the price of two

hillbama the first

Too many northerners on the ticket. At least one yankee will have to go...

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