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...about what it means for the future of the Republican party. How each of the candidates sort of represent a different way it could go. What direction would your candidacy take it, what direction would it take the party? As I tried to say last night in my speech, a return to the principles and values that have made our party so important to what is happening to America, particularly in the 20th century - values, low taxes, less regulation, strong defense, less government is better government, emphasis on the rights of the individual, spending, fiscal responsibility. I think that...
...familiar - and yes, old ones - of the Clinton Administration years. Her larger-than-life husband moved in for the briefest of embraces, and then disappeared. Just in case anyone missed the symbolism, Hillary Clinton made everything explicit with the opening notes of a New Hampshire primary victory speech that had seemed unlikely, even to those around her, just hours before: "Over the last week, I listened to you," said Clinton. "And in the process, I found my own voice...
Clinton's speech was merely the fanfare for what aides say will be a dramatic transformation of her campaign. It starts with the message. One of the things Clinton learned from her defeat in Iowa, those around her say, is that her emphasis on experience and readiness was missing its mark. Her speech Tuesday night was less about her and more about the voters: the ones who have lost their mortgages, who can't afford health care and can't get student loans. "Too many have been invisible for too long," she said. "Well, you are not invisible...
...reframing would follow a New Hampshire loss to Barack Obama - possibly by a double-digit margin, according to some polls and the campaign's own worst fears. "I was with them all day," said one friend, who watched Clinton and her team write the first drafts of her speech in a Concord hotel suite. "They did not see this coming. No one did." Except, perhaps, you know who; the friend said that at one point during the afternoon, Bill Clinton confided, "You know something, I think we can do something here...
...think about Hillary Clinton's victory last night? I thought she proved again that she and her husband - and I give him credit for campaigning very well for her - that they are... [that] she still is a very effective campaigner. I also watched in the morning parts of her speech and she did a good job there. I never counted her out. You remember our conversations on the bus? Everyone said "What are going to do about Obama?" and I said you still got Senator Clinton here and even [John] Edwards, although it appears he may not have much viability...