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What we know is the Clintons are out there; the Clintons got Wesley Clark in the race; they got him in the race to take out Howard Dean, because Howard Dean was going against these guys. He was making threats against the Clintons, making threats against Terry McAuliffe. He was going to get a hold of the party. If he got hold of the party he got hold of the apparatus by which the Clintons hold onto power and relevancy. Can\u2019t let that happen. So Clark goes in there and his goal was to destroy Dean. But Clark didn\u2019t do it, the Clintons had to do it, Clintons had to leak a bunch of data on Clark, had to get Bob Torricelli involved and they took out Dean. The Clintons\u2019 fingerprints are all over that so that got rid of Dean. That launched Kerry. Kerry then starts sweeping to victory. He won this nomination, winning the Iowa caucus. He won it then winning the New Hampshire primary. When it was over at that point, his Democrats are choosing somebody they think can beat Bush. They don\u2019t have any idea who Kerry is; it doesn\u2019t matter to them right now. They don\u2019t know what his record is. It\u2019s going to come back and bite them.<\/line> <\/line>For some reason now, when he\u2019s on the verge with no opposition other than John Edwards, and John Edwards, he doesn\u2019t have a chance, either, he\u2019s not showing well enough in any pre-polls. Now, this could be designed to elevate his candidacy while Kerry stays in, any number of possibilities here, but the one thing we do know is somebody is trying to take Kerry out and it\u2019s a Democrat doing it. The Democrats or a Democrat is taking Kerry out, it\u2019s not us, it\u2019s not the conservatives, and we know that the press has known about this for a while but they haven\u2019t wanted to report this because this is their guy, and they don\u2019t want to be first. Well, they\u2019re not first now. Drudge has leaked it. Drudge has let the cat out of the bag, so now the networks are free to chase this down and be the second to report it. So the Democrats can\u2019t accuse the press of turning on them and savaging and sabotaging one of their guys.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, nothing in the mainstream press yet on this. There\u2019s a story in the UK Guardian today, it\u2019s actually an Associated Press story date-lined out of Milwaukee, and I said yesterday to you people that the Democratic campaign before this Kerry stuff hit needs Edwards to stay in this race. And just briefly, they need it because they need the media coverage, the horse race of the primaries so the press can portray Kerry as winning big and smoking the competition, and really building up momentum. If there\u2019s no viable opponents opposing Kerry in the rest of these big primaries there\u2019s no reason to cover it on TV; there\u2019s no reason to praise him for a big win because he\u2019d be unopposed so they\u2019ve got to convince Edwards to stay in there. But at the same time they\u2019ve got to tell Edwards, don\u2019t start ripping Kerry to shreds, just stay in there and use this as an occasion to get your issues out there set yourself up for whatever you want in the future, but don\u2019t hit Kerry. And apparently Edwards is going to stay in, to give them the horse race.<\/line> <\/line> Well, this story indicates Edwards, who said that he has not been pressured to bow out, even received some encouragement from a crucial Democratic stalwart. Former President Clinton, in an interview with USA Today, Clinton said there are reasons for Edwards to stay in the race. “A lot of times things happen late in the race. I mean look at the elections the last 30 years and ask yourself, is this election the same or is this election different?” So Clinton is out there suggesting, and if he\u2019s doing it publicly there might have been something, you know, message, note passed or whatever, The Torch might have called Edwards, you never know, but Edwards is going to stay in the race, at the behest of Slick Willie, and that happened before today. This story is USA Today interview is either today or yesterday, I\u2019m not sure which. And then this brouhaha sits today. <\/line><\/p>\n

So there\u2019s something going on in this party, but whatever is going on, folks, it\u2019s not healthy. These people are not a happy bunch. The long knives are out for themselves. What this tells me is there\u2019s some sort of huge internal battle going on in the Democratic Party, and I can tell you, if there is, the battle going on between the Democratic Party is between the Clinton faction and whoever else is out there, because I\u2019m here to tell you, there have got to be some Democrats that are fed up with the Clintons owning this party and doing nothing with it but running it into the ground. You can say all you want, folks, about the press covering the Democratic primary and Kerry and how the Democrats are made to look like they are running the show, but the fact is they don\u2019t win elections anymore. They\u2019ve lost all these governorships and big statehouses, they\u2019ve lost the House of Representatives, the Republicans are gaining on their majority advantage in that house, they\u2019re going to lose the Senate again and they\u2019re going to lose Senate seats. The Democrats are losing elections. And up until a month ago it looked like they had no hope and prayer of getting the White House, and I, frankly, still, I mean it may be a close election. This is going to come back and bite me. I got to take the bets off the table. I was going to say if Kerry is the nominee, I\u2019m not worried. They\u2019d nominate him for all the wrong reasons but I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to be the nominee now, but I still don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to win the presidency. I don\u2019t care how close it is, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to happen. So they\u2019re losing elections. There have to be Democrats that know this, there\u2019s a big battle going on in this party.<\/line> <\/line>You know, don\u2019t think everybody loves the Clintons and don\u2019t think all these people are just going to lay their own ambitions and their own desires and their own careers, just laid down and put the their jackets in the mud puddle so Hillary can pass. They\u2019re not just going to lay out of the way and let Hillary have what she wants. It\u2019s not how this works. You know, the quest for power does not take second place to anybody else. You fight \u2019em for it, and the idea that this party is just going to continue to, you know, do whatever the Clintons want, I never thought that that was sensible, and at some point it had to blow up. Now, whether this is it or not, if it isn\u2019t it, it\u2019s going to be at some time, but it looks like something\u2019s going on here, somebody is trying to destroy John Kerry. Somebody, and it ain\u2019t the Republicans.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

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