Mutiny of the Clinton Democrats?

By now, one must wonder what’s going on.

In recent weeks the following Democrats have gone off the Obama reservation, at times directly challenging Dear Leader in ways that regurgitate for days in the news cycle much to his horror:

Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, who is now “dead” to the Administration for having the utter honesty to tell a TV reporter that he was nauseated by the attacks on Bain;

Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor, who, while making the rounds promoting a book and promoting Hillary Clinton, appears to savor opportunities to challenge Obama;

Artur Davis, former Alabama congressman, who proclaimed that “this is not Bill Clinton’s party” as he announced that he’s becoming a Republican;

Sen. Diane Feinstein, Democratic Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has excoriated the Obama Administration for sensitive security leaks; and of course…

Bill Big-Dawg Clinton, who has had to walk back so many Obama digs in the past week, aids are now suggesting he’s senile. (Oh, sure. If Bill Clinton is senile then Barack Obama really is the smartest president evah. Whatever).

There are more. There are so many Democratic critics speaking out so often that I’m losing track: Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts; former Obama “Car Czar” Steve Rattner; former Obama advisor Van Jones (of all people!); former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford; Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware — all of whom have publicly defended Mayor Booker. Fearlessly, I might add.

And now Lanny Davis, former Special Counsel to Bill Clinton, today said this:

“We’re both (speaking of Clinton and Davis) concerned about the tactics (Obama’s) campaign is employing….(He should) talk about his record rather than going negative on Mitt Romney…

“This is how bad it is….Koolaid drinking people — meltdown!”

Surely I’m not the only one who’s noticed that most of these rogue party poopers are Hillary Democrats. What on Clinton’s Earth is going on?

Shout out to Bud White!

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Romney Plants Should Shout “Hillary! Hillary!” at Dem Events

Nothing drives Alinskyites crazier than using their own tactics against them….”Hillary! Hillary! Hillary 2012!”

The other day I read on Gateway Pundit that Mitt Romney retaliated against Obama with his own use of a Dem tactic:

Last week Barack Obama sent his campaign supporters down to a Romney event in Philadelphia to protest. In response to this, Mitt Romney promised reporters today, “If the president wants to send his supporters to my rally, we’ll show him that we have the same capacity as he does.” And Mitt delivered. Romney supporters met Obama senior strategist David Axelrod at his anti-Romney event in Massachusetts.

The Romney plants heckled and shouted down David Axelrod on the steps of the Massachusetts statehouse. LOL, I am sure Axelrude was seething.

Brilliant, Mitt. Fight thuggery with thuggery.  The only way to prevail is to bring a gun to the Chicago street fight. Romney should elevate this tactic by placing  plants at every Obama campaign event, and especially every Bill Clinton event, who shout “Hillary! Hillary! Hillary 2012! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary 2012!“

Then sit back and watch the meltdown.

Idea borrowed from Althouse commenter with a h/t to Hillary is 44

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Wow: Sunday WaPo Editorial Calls for Obama to Step Aside in 2012

I don’t know how much credibility  Schoen and Caddell have as Democratic advisers, but the very fact that the Washington Post is publishing this  proposal is odd at minimum, if not stunning.

One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012

By Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell
Sunday, November 14, 2010

If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock, at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.

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The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment – or of the 2012 campaign.

Quite simply, given our political divisions and economic problems, governing and campaigning have become incompatible. Obama can and should dispense with the pollsters, the advisers, the consultants and the strategists who dissect all decisions and judgments in terms of their impact on the president’s political prospects.

Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” He now has the chance to deliver on that idea.

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Obama owes his election in large measure to the fact that he rejected this approach during his historic campaign. Indeed, we were among those millions of Democrats, Republicans and independents who were genuinely moved by his rhetoric and purpose. Now, the only way he can make real progress is to return to those values and to say that for the good of the country, he will not be a candidate in 2012.

Should the president do that, he – and the country – would face virtually no bad outcomes. The worst-case scenario for Obama? In January 2013, he walks away from the White House having been transformative in two ways: as the first black president, yes, but also as a man who governed in a manner unmatched by any modern leader. He will have reconciled the nation, continued the economic recovery, gained a measure of control over the fiscal problems that threaten our future, and forged critical solutions to our international challenges. He will, at last, be the unifying figure globally he has sought to be, and will almost certainly leave a better regarded president than he is today. History will look upon him kindly – and so will the public.

It is no secret that we have been openly critical of the president in recent days, but we make this proposal with the deepest sincerity and hope for him and for the country.

I can’t imagine the Post publishing such an “opinion” without cause. Ideas anyone?  Do you think this is related to the WSJ’s bizarre suggestion a couple of weeks ago that Obama had not yet decided whether to run for re-election?  Why Would Donors Be Wondering in Nov. 2010 Whether Obama will Run for Re-election

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