If I were advising Hillary....?

[kentuck]

I would advise her to go after Republican women voters. She could appeal to them on the basis of how far women had come and that the glass ceiling was too important to carry a Party label. She could caution these women to cast their vote only after much thought. Do not vote against your own interests, she could tell them. It's time to put an end to the "old Boy's network".

However, the target of her speech would be not just Republican women voters, but mostly Democratic women voters. Without mentioning them in name, she could hope to turn around the women vote that has been incrementally going to Obama. But, I am not advising Hillary... :-)

[Kittycat]

1. How many Republican women do you know?

The many I know, wouldn't vote for her if their life depended on it. They hate her more than they hate anything imaginable. I've seen otherwise sane people flip a mental switch when her name is brought up, and stuff come out of their mouth that you couldn't begin to imagine.

Just sayin'

[kentuck]

2. You misunderstood the post...

By addressing Republican women voters, she would be making an indirect appeal to Democratic women voters. It would be more effective than directly asking them to vote for her because she is the better candidate and she could approach a subject she does not appear comfortable approaching.

[frazzled]

3. I would advise her not to sit out these interim races, even if she knows she's behind

I don't understand this strategy of staying away from personally campaigning in states where she's behind. I guess it's because they don't want her to look like she tried and lost. But it's looking more like she's not a fighter, that she doesn't want to risk her reputation, that she only wants to play in the places where she has the ball in her court. This is no longer about winning or losing states--it's about keeping margins low enough to score some delegates. And it seems like she's giving delegates away.

I just don't understand why she isn't in Milwaukee drumming up support among blue collar workers and women. She should be clawing and fighting for every vote. She's not. I just don't get that.

[Angela Shelley]

4. I would advise her to "tell the truth"

She should have a national press conference, look straight into the camera and say

"I gave my vote to allow the US military to attack, invade and occupy Iraq. At the time, I thought I was making the correct decision. Since then, I have realized that I should have said Nay. Over one million innocent people have died because of our military activity.

I don´t have all of the answers to all of the questions which our country faces today. I do not believe that any candidate has all of the answers. It´s the people in this country who have the answers, and I want to lead a country full of creative, hardworking and peaceful people.

I want every human being on this planet to know, that I, as of this moment, will do everything I can to promote world peace.

Please vote for me, to give me the chance to prove my strength as a human being in leading this country to become a part of the peaceful international community.

May God bless this planet. Thank You.

[bigtree]

5. I would advise her to abandon all hope, divorce Bill, and move to Mexico

but I'm craaazy! :crazy:

[NashVegas]

6. I'd Advise Her to Go Negative

Drawing Republican voters is working for Obama, and she wouldn't have the time to develop & implement to best him at it, IMO.

There's no way the Republican party won't go negative in the general; Obama may as well get tested now & see if his campaign holds up any better to the "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" and whatever other shit's going to get thrown at him.

[Occam Bandage]

8. So would I, but I want her to lose.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

9. Where have you been? He's been hit with that stuff already, and has withstood it quite well.

I volunteered for his campaign in NV during the caucus. Everybody, and I mean everybody, in the small rural towns we were canvassing had gotten the Muslim smear email. Just before the caucus. Coincidentally.

The good thing about this stuff happening now is that by the time November rolls around it won't have any impact because it will have been debunked and people will be tired of it. Also, McCain will be forced to publicly denounce the Muslim stuff, lest he look like a big old racist.

[NashVegas]

10. If the Muslim Smear Email

You're talking about is the same one I've seen referred to all over, ie "Obama went to a Madrasa," you're referencing a piece that's so crazily obvious as to be ineffective for the primaries (general election would be a different story).

A few Freepers might buy it, but voting Dems, not so likely.

OTOH, something more subtle, that can't be so easily debunked, and he's in big trouble.

On edit - something like this:

Election 2008: How is it a front-runner for the highest office in the land can reject an American flag on his lapel but permit the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer's mug?

Improbable as it sounds, it's true. Barack Obama, displaying the same "anything goes" standard of patriotism he showed when he ostentatiously refused to wear a U.S. flag in his lapel, now shows he's got a whole different idea about patriotism.

One of Obama's volunteer offices in Houston was caught operating under a huge flag of communist Cuba with Che Guevara's face printed on it, according to images shown on Fox News. Flak from bloggers ensued — followed, of course, by spin control.

But rather than repudiate the image, Obama would only call it "inappropriate," apparently without insisting it be taken down. That contrasts with his dismissal of his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as "hypocrites." Some hypocrites.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=287712495807374

[mdmc]

7. I would advise her to publically scold Bill for having an affair with

Michelle Obama.
If that won't shake things up, nothing will.