"I have a much broader base" -Hillary

[Blarch]

Ya, OK ...the person with the fewest votes and the fewest dollars has the broadest base.

I can't take it anymore...

[yourguide]

1. Hahahahaha!

indeed!

[NewHampshireDem]

2. I said that to my wife once--about her broad base, you know--

and picture your picture, but with someone else holding the gun

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. It's rather shocking, then, Senator Clinton, that you keep losing

:rofl:

[Stephanie]

4. Maybe she was referring to the pants suits

[Kaleva]

5. that's why she wears pant suits

[maxsolomon]

8. see? that's the casual sexism that has HRC diehards threatening to vote for Gramps

leave her body out of it.

[Kaleva]

14. And it's the 'Gramps' jokes that will drive these same people..

to who knows where.

[Alcibiades]

18. Body-type jokes are sexist?

How many Clinton supporters have called Obama a "string bean," or something of the sort?

Stupid, I agree, but not necessarily sexist.

[maxsolomon]

20. if you insult a body, and that body belongs to a woman

it's sexist. a double standard, but what are you going to do?

BTW, this is DU, so no one here should care that i call a republican Gramps. besides, its not an insult - i called my Grampa Gramps.

[Alcibiades]

23. Well, OK then

The "string bean" stuff is pretty transparently silly anyway, because most everybody wants to be thinner anyway.

It's certainly OK to call McCain gramps. There is a Republican newsweekly out that has a picture of a red phone on the cover with the tag: "It's 3 am. The Phone Rings. John McCain is Ready." My first thought on seeing this was ""It's 3 am. The Phone Rings. John McCain can't find his teeth."

[islandmkl]

6. all men know (from at least only ONE experience hopefully) to never answer the question:

"Does this _________ make my butt look fat?"

In all the words in all the world in all the languages, there is no right answer.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. While sitting perhaps..... but nothing more. n/t

[Quixote1818]

9. Why is that something to brag about?

Most women want to get rid of their broad base. :shrug:

[liberaldem4ever]

21. Has that picture been photoshopped?

If it hasn't, I feel so bad for the lady in the picture. That is not funny at all. It hurts bad to be overweight.

[TexasObserver]

10. ass, not base

I think they must have misquoted her.

[anigbrowl]

11. Let the forgetting begin

[high density]

13. Kristen Bell for VP!

[billyoc]

12. Man, she must really think her supporters are stupid.

If your base is so broad, why don't you get more votes?

[marimour]

15. her broad base of white people and white people? truly revolutionary!

[billyoc]

16. Actually, it's old white people and their parents. nt

[Schema Thing]

17. For Hillary:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7720485&mesg_id=7720485

[DCofVA]

19. I think she means her base is made up mostly of broads.

You know like, dames, goils, poysons of da female poysuasion :)

[SoonerPride]

22. I thought she was talking about junk in da trunk

She definitely has a broader base than Obama, then.

[Orsino]

24. A candidate has to act like a winner.

This claim of hers is vague enough to be something less than an out-and-out lie, but it is an intentional attempt to mislead us. This is the sort of thing a candidate should repeat until she makes it true, if at all possible.

So please don't judge her too harshly (and I intend no sarcasm or condescension here). She is a cornered animal, and this is a relatively benign defense mechanism. She may still have hope for some miraculously huge reversal of public opinion, and if she is to remain in the race at all, this is the way to do it.

You proclaim yourself a winner until you either win or have to drop out, and never acknowledge weakness. It's difficult to wish yourself victory, but it's easy to prophesy your own loss, even inadvertently.