Posted on 11/09/2010 4:34:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Imagine this scenario.
In early 2012, President Obama realizes that he cant possibly win the presidency again. He announces that he will not seek another term because he achieved his goals: health care for all; energy awareness; and expansion of government programs for those in need. He knows he has spent all his political capital on an expansion of American Liberalism not seen since Lyndon Johnsons Great Society programs. Like Johnson, he makes the announcement early enough to leave the field wide open to would-be candidates.
Enter Hillary Clinton, the woman denied the nomination by the Change candidate in 2008. She is every female baby boomers ideal candidate, but is she Americas? Her Republican opponent? Sarah Palin.
A historic matchup -- No matter who wins, a woman is going to the White House. But who would win?
Lets take a look at the brands
You couldnt have two more opposite political resumes. Forget ideology for a second, just look at education and professional background. Hillary is elite, North East education all the way. Sarah is state school and thoroughly western. Hillary is a pretty classic pol: U.S. Senate to State Department with plenty of grassroots politicking and top- level experience in-between. Hillary has never seen a box that she didnt check.
Sarah is identified with only one-state and one office. Whereas Hillary has always completed everything she began in public life, Palin has not. Her political resume includes leaving the governorship halfway through term.
But does this mean that Palin is automatically out of contention? No way.
Never, ever, rule out Sarah Palin. Especially not in the climate that is likely to exist in 2012.
If Obama, our philosopher-king, high-IQ technocrat, manages not to do anything different before 2012, how many Americans will want another candidate even remotely like him?
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I agree with you.
Soros just has to find the right independent candidate to fund, and Baraq has a shot at a Clintonian plurality win.
As much as we all hate the hillabeast, she will be tough to beat. I hope the punk president gets renominated.
I wonder if the homosexual pro-clinton website Hillbuzz will FINALLY get the boot from FR by then.
At a 2004 “Take Back America” conference in Washington, DC, Mrs. Clinton introduced Soros with these words:
Now, among the many people who have stood up and said, I cannot sit by and let this happen to the country I love, is George Soros, and I have known George Soros for a long time now, and I first came across his work in the former Soviet Union, in Eastern Europe, when I was privileged to travel there, both on my own and with my husband on behalf of our country. ... [W]e need people like George Soros, who is fearless, and willing to step up when it counts.
(Cited in David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party, p. 53)
http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/hillary-clinton-and-george
I see any Hillary run as a win/win.
If she loses in the primaries, it still depletes Baraq’s funds and exposes his failures because the MSM will give her a lot of publicity.
If she wins the nomination, minorities have little enthusiasm depleting a major Dem support for the Nov election.
Feingold? Dean? LOL! I guess the Dems don’t want to save their party after all. That’s good for us.
Only a fool would do that.
I'll have to go into the family room or master bedroom.
why are so many of us assuming Palin is already the nominee? Mike Pence and John Thune are still in play! Can’t we all just wait and see who decides to run before assuming anything? Especially if Mike Pence runs, I think he will take it all!
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