In Ohio Victory Speech, Hillary Quickly Hits Comeback-Kid Theme
It's been a long time since Hillary delivered a victory speech, and she is clearly relishing it right now in her victory speech in Ohio. She wasted no time hitting the comeback-kid theme hard in her first words:
For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you.
Also noteworthy: She said that she congratulated Senator McCain on his victory tonight, and noted that she looks forward to a "spirited debate" with him. Of course, there are a few more Dem primary contests -- not to mention Obama's big pledged-delegate lead -- that she'll have to get past first.
More of the speech soon.
Late Late Update: In the speech Hillary slips in a bit of mockery of Obama's "hope" rhetoric:
Together we will turn promises into action, words into solutions, and hope into reality.
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Now she just has to win the rest of the races in 60-40 margins.
Good luck on splitting the democratic party.
I for one will never vote for her, since she is a republican.
March 4, 2008 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
And she spoiled our victory celebration.
Now what am I going to do with all these crêpes and doilies?
March 5, 2008 7:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bull. Shit.
She lost 10 points in one state in a matter of a week, 15 in another. She is clinging on by her teeth and she does not care if the party goes down with her.
March 4, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds more like she won an Oscar than a primary.
March 4, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
She said that she congratulated Senator McCain on his victory tonight, and noted that she looks forward to a "spirited debate" with him.
She really said that? Must be a contact high from whatever they're passing around in the audience.
I'm sure the McCain campaign got a good chuckle out of that line. I'm sure they're furiously retooling their attacks right now since she's clearly reclaimed the mom...
What? You mean she's not going to gain any delegates tonight?!? Doh!
March 4, 2008 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup, next up is her call for Obama to drop out of the race!
March 4, 2008 11:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mccain must be shaking in his boots about that "spirited debate." Depressing. I could have sworn we were a lock in this election, and now it's getting hard to see it. We're now in for 6 more weeks of Hillary mashing up our candidate for big Mac and blowing all our money so she can come back in 2012. Once again, Ohio, my state, serves as the naive enabler of American decline.
Where are those tax returns you're working so hard to release, Hillary? Still don't have time, eh?
March 4, 2008 11:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ohioans prove that Karl Rove is still a "poliitcal genius" and the politics of distortions, lies, family ties, corporate dollars can still prevail. When the Clintons win, America loses.
March 4, 2008 11:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you get a dumbass journalist on First Read saying the "Obama campaign will soldier on" in spite of losing Ohio.
Are they all CRAZY ?
March 4, 2008 11:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama congratulates her on Ohio. Classy, unlike her during that losing streak.
March 4, 2008 11:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meh its old people, every state she won its the old vote that pushes her over. Old people need to let go of the past and let the next generation move this country forward.
March 4, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
"What do you think about Euthanasia?"
"Feed 'em rice."
March 5, 2008 7:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary, it's 11:30 and you've just won Ohio and Texas. Your children are safe in bed. Do you know where the secret muslims are hiding, waiting to eat them? Don't you want someone in NSA headquarters that can keep you safe from the secret muslims? Someone who knows how to go to war to prevent the dark mushroom clouds gradually forming over our cities?
March 4, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
"No matter what happens, we have the same delegate lead as we did this morning..."Barack Obama
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!!! FOR HILLARY!!!!
March 4, 2008 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
how is she a "comeback" kid in ohio when she was never really behind here????
seriously.
you dont get to blow a 20point lead and still get to be the comeback kid just because you happen to hold on.
March 4, 2008 11:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love it! John McCain and Hillary Clinton.....he says. Ain't that the truth!
March 4, 2008 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeesh, I just read the front page.
Memo to TPM underlings: could one of you please walk Josh and his bottle of Jergins up to his room.
March 4, 2008 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
In her speech, she mentioned Florida right out of the gate in states she has won, and threw in Michigan too. She will fight for this like Bill fights for chubby interns.
March 4, 2008 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
just checking...
the same people who called hillary a poor loser during february are here acting like poor losers themselves...
nice.
March 4, 2008 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good to see you've learned not to gloat from their folly.
March 5, 2008 12:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
there are a lot of poor losers on the comments section of blogs. TPM is almost (almost) refreshing compared to LGF or some of the MSM comment sections.
Thank god the country is not run by the comment section.
I want to hear what is the hold up on re-running the FL primary?
March 5, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
if these results stand, does anyone know the delegate distribution?
March 4, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I for one will never vote for him.
March 5, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
And I will never vote for her.
March 5, 2008 12:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations to her. Josh is right; she's extremely tenacious, and obviously still has a lot of support. I don't really see how she can win the whole thing, but if she wins Texas too, I think she has a reasonable argument that she should soldier on. If Huckabee did it, why not her?
I don't think it'll hurt the party, ultimately, either. It generates a huge amount of interest in the campaign, and marginalizes the republicans in a big way. I don't see how that is damaging.
I'd like it to be over myself, and I want Obama to win, but he keeps not being able to quite put her away....
March 5, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
It generates a huge amount of interest in the campaign, and marginalizes the republicans in a big way. I don't see how that is damaging.
Because this is Hillary Clinton we're talking about, and if she can't win the nomination herself, she's going to do everything she can to make sure the nominee doesn't win the general election.
She's going to hit Obama with so much bullshit - and it will be pure bullshit, believe me - but enough of it will stick to drag him down.
Our only hope now is that the adults in the Democratic party step up and tell Hillary to step aside. I suspect McCain's clinching of the Republican nomination tonight will instill a little urgency.
March 5, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have only been able to catch snippets of the speech here and there on the internet, but what I have seen seems like a fine victory speech. This is not the result for which I had hoped, but Clinton campaigned well and earned this victory. I congratulate her and her supporters (for what little my own congratulations are worth).
March 5, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations to Hillary for the win in Ohio. The turnout appears to have been substantially higher than in the 2004 primary.
March 5, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Where is Bette Davis when we need her?
I predict Texas will be the bumpiest night in Dem history since....I dunno.
I predict Texas for Obama.
March 5, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's the spirit. I agree with you, come to that. I am looking forward to good news from TX in the morning.
March 5, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ohio rules! The mudslinging tied it, and the racist vote put her over the top! Go Hillary!
March 5, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
wait, wait.
does this mean Ohio counts?
March 5, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, the grapes, they must be sour indeed...
Obama had better shake this off right quick.
March 5, 2008 1:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am profoundly disappointed right now. I moved to San Francisco 6 years ago...from rural Ohio. That entire state is 15 years behind the rest of the country and full of lunatics. And my parents. Ohio sux.
March 5, 2008 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Being 15 years behind and full of lunatics doesn't preclude an Obama victory.
He won _Idaho_. ;)
March 5, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mockery of "hope"? How about the idea that she's articulating the importance of not just holding, but actually REALIZING, hopes and aspirations? IMHO, her point of view is exactly right. Anybody remember the 2004 Dem convention with its sea of "Hope" signs? I knew we were doomed the minute I saw that.
What we needed then, and need now even more, is HELP, not hope.
Help out of the big global messes we're in, help restoring the constitution, help with jobs, help with homes, and on and on. Hope was not all we should have been settling for in 2004, and it's not what's needed now.
And another thing: with it's usual incompetence, the Bushies and the banks are right now giving "Hope" a bad name by using it to brand their insufficient efforts (HOPE NOW, the HOPE alliance) to help people save their homes from foreclosure.By the time they're done mucking this stuff up, the last thing anyone will want is a great big helping of Hope...
I will support Obama if he's our nomminee, but in the meantime it's my sincere HOPE that the one who's more able to Help wins the day.
March 5, 2008 1:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary to earth! Comeback to your senses. You just failed to gain any delegates and you have fewer to work with. You will now lose mucho more delegates in Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, and Wyoming because you are so disorganized.
Comeback to reality. It's over!
March 5, 2008 3:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
In only a few weeks Obama ate up her big leads in those states, that isn't a comeback, it is a slowed defeat at best.
And it is a delegate battle remember Hillary? I believe you tried to spin that once upon a time, and you've never been ahead in delegates, not for a single minute, and the math says you never will.
I just hope the superdelegates aren't fooled by the dumbass media hype, because it looks more grim for you today than it did yesterday.
March 5, 2008 5:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Athletes have won by cheating with steroids. Hillary wins by cheating with slime tactics. This is the America we live in.
March 5, 2008 8:27 AM | Reply | Permalink