Posted on 11/09/2003 7:12:05 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
Door may be open for Hil
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With no Dem front-runner, pros say she could step in
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"If nobody ... solidifies a position by mid-March, I think you are going to find a real surge and opportunity for someone like Hillary," said Donald Robinson, a professor of government at Smith College. "It presents, maybe for the first time since 1952, [the chance] of a candidate coming from outside the pack," Robinson added. "As long as Hillary is around, she is always going to be the Cinderella candidate, whether it's now or four months from now," said Democratic consultant Norman Adler. Clinton has said she will not be a candidate in 2004, but it hasn't been missed that she trounces the Democratic candidates in national polls. The senator may be prodded to get into it by concern that former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean could win the nomination. Although Dean leads the pack with only 17%, his prospects were bolstered last week when two of the country's largest unions indicated that he was their man. Sources close to the New York senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made it clear that they think the dovish Dean would be ruinous for the Democratic Party. Those concerns were factors in Bill Clinton's behind-the-scenes urging of retired Gen. Wesley Clark to throw his hat in. But Clark has yet to take command of the race. The Democratic primary calendar was shuffled after the last election to select a nominee early and give the candidate plenty of time to raise cash for the fight with Bush. Instead, the change is threatening to leave Democrats without a clear-cut front-runner and the nominee, presumably determined by mid-March, could be someone largely unknown to many voters. One Democratic nightmare is that Rep. Dick Gephardt wins Iowa, Dean takes New Hampshire and Sen. John Edwards tops the pack in South Carolina. No one drops out and no one catches fire. By some accounts, it's possible Democrats could go to their July convention without a certain nominee for the first time in decades. The possibility of an unsettled convention is not an idle matter among some Democrats. "If we get 38% percent on the first ballot, who do we go to" to get the other 12%? asked one strategist whose campaign is tracking rivals' delegates in case they need to be picked off at the convention. The notion of a last-minute Clinton candidacy would depend on her being able to quickly change her public stance and mobilize support. It's clear that Clinton isn't getting into the early primaries. The deadline for candidates to get on the primary ballot in Missouri - a key swing state - is just nine days away. The deadline in New Hampshire, which holds the nation's first primary on Jan. 27, is Nov. 21. Others quickly follow. The strategy of skipping those contests would defy the accepted wisdom of presidential politics that the nominee must get in early and win knockouts in first-round primaries like Iowa and New Hampshire. "She's too late for Iowa and probably too late for New Hampshire. But of course she's Hillary and might not need Iowa and New Hampshire," Adler said. "No one but her could go from a standing start in Iowa to winning," said GOP strategist Rick Wilson. "It's not impossible but neither is it easy." |
She cannot win in the red states, and there will be more red in '04.
1) Sabotage the 2004 Dimo candidates. The First Grifters cannot afford to have a Dimo win in 2004. Given two terms, this would leave Hitlery a washed up hag by 2012. Even her "husband", child, and pets will want nothing to do with her by then. "General" Clark has been particularly helpful in this regard.
2) Sabotage GW's approval ratings, through relentless attacks by the Dims and negative reportage by the sychophant media. Lately, the Dims on the Senate Intelligence Committee have erroneously revealed their part in the plan.
3) If GW looks vulnerable enough by March 2004, "grudgingly" agree to accept the nomination of the party by "popular demand" of the Dimo sheeple.
IMIO, this sociopath actually believes that she is Evita Peron revisited.
Correction .. she said she has no "intention" of being a canidate
There IS a difference
"If nobody ... solidifies a position by mid-March, I think you are going to find a real surge and opportunity for someone like Hillary," said Donald Robinson, a professor of government at Smith College.
(yawn) Surprise, surprise.
I think everybody had this figured out over a year ago, even before she made it even more obvious (if that's possible) by throwing Clark into the mix when Dean started getting too comfortable.
It's humorous how the dims keep playing with themselves. She doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell to win a presidential election.
Yeah, all that stuff will be all over the airwaves, just like the Communist Chinese money, Juanita Brodderick, and the Rockefeller memo.
This article, as with others like it,has been written by someone who yearns for Hitlery! to be president, but does NOT know, nor understand the way Conventions work now. Neither do those pontificating about : no front runner ", have the slightest idea about how the 9 dwarves have been/are/shall make out in the primaries. Dean IS ahead and the momentum, which he is going to get, after the first three, IS going to propell him farther .
TINFOIL ALERT ! That's precisely what THIS and every other article/vanity post here about Hitlery! running/being annointed, in '04, is. That's it; case closed.
Mrs. Clinton would in a heart beat given the chance, will install The Third Way - pure socialism, end America’s Sovereignty and toss her tattered and torn Constitution out once and for all. This is not Cinderella, this is the ugly, stepsister in all her gory glory.
To keep from having to answer real questions, ones not pre-scripted for her, she will await the draft from her base – those not endorsing any of those running now known by their silence. I could be wrong, but I am not aware of any Republican power brokers with shady pasts, the Clintons have nothing but shady power brokers starting with Harold Ickes. What has happened to Paul? The man who claims the Clintons didn’t report his donation of $2 Million or what ever, what is going on with him. It seems to me Mrs. Clinton has far too many still unsolved scandalous clouds hanging over her head to take the chance of running for the White House.
I take sheer delight in reminding all Freepers it is their duty to keep those scandals alive, reminding America why this woman is unfit to be president now or ever. She is really unfit to be in the United States Senate and knowing that, I doubt she will leave that chair to try for another.
She might have part in Cinderella, just not in the title role. She could play all three of ugly stepsisters. And it looks like that may just be what happens at the DemonRat ball.
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