To: sylvester80 who wrote (76972 ) 3/8/2008 6:39:04 PM From: Crimson Ghost Respond to of 89467 Does Hillary Clinton Want John McCain Elected President? by Brent Budowsky | March 7, 2008 - 8:27am article tools: email | print | read more Brent Budowsky It is obvious that Hillary Clinton cannot be nominated with a majority of elected delegates and equally obvious that she has embarked on a campaign of personal destruction as her last hope. I cannot remember a Democratic candidate for president engaging in such totally negative personal attacks against a Democratic opponent, through her comments and through back-channel efforts by her staff, including attempts to play “the Muslim card.” Hillary Clinton seeks to destroy her opponent to save her nomination, and will only succeed in destroying the party and her own reputation. This is why I predict a surge of superdelegates to Obama. They understand her tactics, they understand the danger her tactics pose for the party. They do not want to overrule the verdict of the voters. They realize that a desperate personal-destruction campaign against the probable nominee could turn a possible landslide for Democrats into a major Republican triumph. Could it be that the outcome Hillary Clinton fears the most is a Democratic landslide led by an inspiring two-term Democratic president who truly turns the page? Could it be that a preferable outcome would be that she engages in a campaign of total personal destruction of her Democratic opponent, in the hope of electing a Republican who would be a one-term president because of considerable age, allowing Hillary to run in 2012? There are serious people asking these questions behind the scenes. The more she continues her campaign of destruction, the more we will find Democrats, including myself, believing this “Hillary prefers McCain to Obama” scenario could be true. _______