Posted on 09/09/2009 2:42:46 PM PDT by GOPinCa
From the Weekly Standard: The boss hears from two sources that Hillary Clinton is considering stepping down as Secretary of State this fall in order to run for Governor of New York.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Well...that’s ONE WAY to get out of her current (invisible) job...
Of course..another stepping stone. So, who would be the next SOS???
I knew she would step down. She has to be hacked off about the plot to kill her in Africa....somewhere inside she has to wonder if Obama was behind it.
Hugo Chavez?
I figured she wouldn’t last more than 2 years.
She really needs to run for governor if she intends to have a political future before she turns 80.
I'd suggest Van Jones but he may have a little trouble with the vetting...
Probably gives her a better change at the White House in 2012 and/or 2016.
Rudy really needs to oppose her.
Now that Huma dumped her, there’s no reason for her to stay in DC.
It wasn't until I got to NYC last month before I heard firsthand how much the people there loathe the present governor.
Clean break from the Secretary of State position too.
I knew eventually Hillary would jump off the sinking ship known as the Obama Administration. She is no dummy, she knows a train wreck when she sees one. Hillary is going to save herself and get the heck outta there. Wait, if Hillary does resign, will the media call her a quitter?
Quitter
obama neutered her at her current “job”.
Them Pants are made for Crustin!
And that’s just what they’ll do!
One of these days those pants
Are gonna crust all over you!
Dum dum, dum dum, dum dum, dum dum!
If true, she is starting to resemble a political opportunist, similar to Asa Hutchinson — someone who runs for this office, then that office, etc.
If the people of NY are dumb enough to vote for her....
[They did for her 2nd Senate term, knowing she would run for the presidency anyway.]
lol!
As an aside, regardless of one’s views on Bill Kristol and his policy views, when he “hears” something, it usually comes to pass.
He also head that O’Connor was resigning a week or so before it happened when no one was mentioning it.
He heard back in May of 2008 that Sarah Palin would be the GOP VP when no one else was mentioning it.
I was waiting for the first concrete sign that Hillary is preparing a 2012 challenge to Obama, this is clearly that.
Oprah
I’d be first at the polls to vote for Giuliani over her, and I don’t like him much.
Bailing before the crap hits the fan?
Well I guess Foggy Bottom has had it with Big Bottom and her incessant uh’s and uh’s and uh’s.
Now she can piss away in the sorry assed state.
“Who wants to be Secretary of State when you can be Governor of New York?”, to paraphrase Jimmy Walker.
Bad news. If she runs, she wins. That will give her 6 years as a governor before the 2016 election. She will then be 69 which isnt too old.
It doesn’t matter. She did what she got paid to do; endorse 0bama and keep quiet.
He doesn’t need her, she doesn’t need him.
I wanted Alan Colmes to be the press secretary, but Robert Gibbs isn't backing down. How about Colmes for SOS? He never met a Lefty that he didn't like.< /sarc>
-P?
Let’s see...
Hillary resigns before time - BRILLIANT MOVE!
Sarah resigns before time - GROSS NEGLIGENCE!
Hillary leaves Governorship to run for President - BRILLIANT
Sarah considers Presidential Run - Why should anyone vote for a quitter?
Andrew Cuomo will be very p*ssed off if this is true. Then again, how about a brutal primary battle among Paterson, Cuomo and Hillary, that might pave the way for a Governor Giuliani.
First one to jump the ship! Wow!
This sets up a run in 2012..
Hillary is probably almost as left-wing as Obama, but she’d be less effective at getting her way, primarily because she doesn’t have the race card to play.
She has been rendered totally useless in the SOS position, in any case, and even when she does attempt to demur (for example, she actually was intially better on Honduras than was Bambi) she is either ignored, corrected or suddenly sent off to do a speaking tour of Timbuktu.
She’d be better off outta there.
Well I guess Foggy Bottom has had it with Big Bottom and her incessant uh’s and uh’s and uh’s.
Now she can piss away in the sorry assed state.
She’s desperate for credentials.
My subtitle: I will do anything to become President
Who’s Hilary Clinton?
She will then be 69 which isnt too old.
Except that she was born old. She is of the Emma Goldman and Jiang Qing’s generation...
You mean like the time he gave Clinton a week in office when the Lewinsky scandal broke?
Will she get accused of quitting? Will the AP run stories about how much her resignation will cost taxpayers?
... Asked what former President Bill Clinton thought about the prospect, Ms. Clinton snapped, “You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not Governor of New York, I am.” :~)
Maybe she thinks Obama will be vulnerable to a primary challenge.
I predicted a few weeks ago that she would resign as SoS to start working on her 2012 presidential campaign. This is the precursor to that.
Did Hillary ever retire her sizable campaign debt? I thought that was one reason for jumping on the Obama ship.
If not, I could see that being an issue, at least if she has to go up against young Cuomo in the ‘Rat primary.
He also believes the Dem health-care issue is a quickly sinking ship, to be dead before year's end. Let's hope he's right there as well.
Now she can piss away in the sorry assed state."
This is a quality post.
That will allow her to run for President in 2012...
Almost...
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