Floater

The "Dream Ticket." Today, Bill Clinton was out promoting the idea of a Clinton-Obama ticket, following Hillary's floating the idea over the past few days. As Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo states, "Hillary floated this yesterday, and, now, Bill today -- and it's hard to imagine that both Clintons would be talking this up in tandem by accident. " I also doubt they are, and to me this is one of the most crassly cynical, desperate, condescending and devious ploys their campaign has tried yet. Why?

First, this discussion neglects the most relevant fact at hand: OBAMA IS WINNING. After their resurgence in Ohio, and their popular vote win in Texas (they actually got less delegates because Obama won the caucuses), they are trying to relaunch their campaign with a massive PR pitch. But most of all they are trying to make people forget these pesky facts:

-Obama is beating them in delegates (1366 to 1227 according to MSNBC)
-Obama is beating them in states won (28 to 14 with Wisconsin today)
-Obama is beating them in the popular vote (13,000,655 to 12,411,705 according to Real Clear Politics)

They are still losing, and there is no mathematical way for them to catch up. But they are trusting people aren't paying attention, that they are just catching an occasional headline or two - and now think she is winning. And if you're undecided - you don't love Hillary, you kind of like this new "hope and change" guy, well this way you can get both! C'mon, though he's run a more efficient, effective and successful campaign against the largest name in Democratic politics and outplayed and out-earned them, you can't actually be SERIOUS about this guy right? But we can give him a place on the team. As a friend stated, its almost as if saying Obama "should know his place."

This is her ploy to steal undecided votes from Obama by implying you get two for one - clear and simple. And if you don't think that's so, or think I am being too cynical about the Clinton's, think about the guy they have running their campaign, and how he does things.

Think about how they are using fear ads, but can't come up with an example of an actual crisis Hillary has handled, or how she is touting foreign policy achievements that turn out to be nonexistent.

Think about how Rush Limbaugh wants Hillary to stay in the campaign because he believes she will do a better job attacking Obama then "timid" Republicans will.

Or think about this: Bill was out talking up the idea to Mississippi voters today because they are voting on Tuesday. The only thing is, Obama said this - THE DAY BEFORE: "You won’t see me as a vice presidential candidate -- you know, I’m running for president."

Of course that only matters if you know that Obama said that. Otherwise maybe it sounds like a great idea.

Please, float that shit someplace else.

UPDATE (3/10): Obama discusses the rumor, saying the Clintons are trying to "hoodwink" voters.