If one is truly interested in "owning' ones candidate this snippet from Hillary in 2008 is simply delicious:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-07-clintoninterview_N.htm

Now that's "real rhetoric".  As Bill Clinton so often opined "You goat do what you gotta do".