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o n T H e P R o w l have been invited to visit with the prospecout of the Money Sen. John McCain and his senior campaign fundraisers have been seeking to hold private meetings with a...
...companies in an attempt to jumpstart the Republicans’ flagging fundraising...
...If Bill had stuck with the Clintons, he would have been one of ten or fifteen second-tier people, nothing more...
...While each of them has pulled in between $30 million to $40 million seemingly each month, McCain hasn’t had a quarter with that kind of dollar amount in the past six months...
...Dick Durbin, are viewed by their Democratic colleagues as failures in their roles...
...Durbin can’t whip and can’t even count votes on a good day, and Reid seems to have lost a step,” says a longtime Democratic Senate aide...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton has plans for leadership even if she doesn’t win the Democratic nomination for president...
...delusion springs eternal Republican Minority Leader Rep...
...Boehner has ramped up his online presence with a leadership website touting conservative values and going after Democrats in the House...
...It will be Richardson and Tom Daschle with the access to the next president...
...But if this primary thing drags out, and the party is torn apart, there won’t be much support for her to do anything in the Senate...
...The American Spectator Foundation, 1611 North Kent Street, Suite 901 Arlington, VA 22209 M a y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 1 5 chaotic Minds The Democratic National Committee spent close to a week trying to come up with its own version of Rush Limbaugh’s “Oper ation Chaos,” which is encouraging conservatives to vote Democrat in late primary states to skew the results for a favorable Demo cratic candidate...
...Clinton may not have a clear path to either of the jobs if she returns to the Senate so badly damaged from the bruising primary fight that she appears to be a diminished figure...
...Right now we’re all focused on stopping the Democrats,” says a Boehner aide...
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...The Clinton crowd will be gone...
...McCain is trailing far behind both Sens...
...But those events haven’t done much to line up major donor efforts for the campaign...
...Boehner also wants to make sure that when that organization clicks, he’s the one in charge...
...But with the prospect of an almost unknown presidential candidate with almost no Washington network to draw on, Richardson apparently saw a door opening that the Clintons would never let him through, but one that would allow him to become a latter-day Straussian figure...
...o n T H e P R o w l have been invited to visit with the prospecout of the Money Sen...
...he wins, Richardson thinks he will have placed himself as a senior adviser, a kind of new generation of party elder...
...Howard Dean will be gone...
...After that, and after we gain a majority, we’ll see what happened, but no one should be surprised that the minority leader who may one day help regain a majority wants to be Speaker...
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...He wants to get back to Washington pretty badly, but not as another Cabinet member,” says the former Clinton adviser...
...It was driving Dean bats*** that we couldn’t come up with anything to compete,” says a consultant working for the DNC...
...I think it’s undemocratic, but you have to love the branding and packaging...
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...But with Obama, if Let Your Legacy Be One of Freedom...
...Harry Reid for She may not be the only one… even from her own state...
...If she were to step away from the nomination o n T H e P R o w l process, concede, and return to the Senate, I think there would be a wave of support for her decision, which would be made for the good of the party,” says the Democratic aide...
...The adviser says that after serving in various admini stration and polit ical jobs for the better part of two decades, Richardson is ready to cash in big both financially and politically...
...McCain has placed several close allies in the RNC to help with the party’s “Victory Fund,” which will help not only other GOP candidates, but also his general election campaign...
...It’s a much better site than anything we’ve had in the past, at least in an appeal to conservatives and generating support from our base on issues,” says a senior House leadership aide...
...Bill Richardson didn’t endorse Barack Obama because he hoped to be vice president —he endorsed him so that he’d possibly be in position to be the “Robert Strauss” for the next generation of Washington Democrats...
...McCain has held several private weekend events at his ranch in Arizona, where the likes of Richard Parsons, chairman of Time Warner, and financier Henry Kravis tive presi dent...
...His shadow and influence remain considerable...
...The calculation had a lot less to do with hoping to be on the ticket, and a lot to do with wanting to be the eventual power behind the throne if Obama won,” says a former Clinton White House adviser who says he spoke to Richardson after the endorsement...
...Boehner understands that we have to get better organized and focused if we’re going take back the House sooner rather than later...
...John Boehner has set his sights on taking back the House from Demo cratic control, if not in 2008, 1 4 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a y 2 0 0 8 then 2010, and when that happens, he wants to be Speaker of the House...
...I think there is a consensus that one or both has to go in 2009...
...The new strauss New Mexico Gov...
...the majority leader slot in 2009...
...According to Clinton advisers who deal with her Senate office, she is considering whether to challenge Sen...
...may have his sights set on a leadership post...
...Chuck Schumer, currently running the Democrats’ Senate campaign fundraising effort nationally, also Regardless of who may want the job, what’s becoming increasingly clear is that both Reid and his number-one henchman, Sen...
...He wants to be viewed as a leader of the Democratic Party...
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...He doesn’t want there to be any doubt, say advisers, about who will be leading the GOP and the House when the opportunity arises...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in fundraising...
...John McCain and his senior campaign fundraisers have been seeking to hold private meetings with a number of CEOs of major U.S...
...Reid’s outbursts don’t help matters...
Vol. 41 • May 2008 • No. 4
