Clark Eyes Hillary for VP Spot

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/09/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

In a bid to reclaim some of the spotlight after Al Gore endorsed his rival Howard Dean Tuesday morning, Democrat presidential candidate Wesley Clark said he was considering asking U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his running mate in 2004.

"She is very smart ... I like Hillary. I've known her a long time." Clark told MSNBC hours after news of Gore's endorsement broke.

On the campaign trail in New Hampshire Tuesday morning, the former NATO chief said he "has not ruled out Hillary Clinton as his running mate if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination," according to the Associated Press.

"I think she wants George Bush out of the White House because it's best for country," Clark said earlier, suggesting that his party's most popular politician might accept if it was the only way to defeat President Bush.

On Sunday Sen. Clinton refused to rule out joining the Democrat ticket as vice president and said only that she did not expect any of the presidential candidates to ask her.

"That is not going to happen," she told ABC's "This Week" host, George Stephanopoulos. "That is so far beyond the realm of the possible."

"That's not a 'No.' It could happen," the former Clinton communications director replied.

[concerned about politics]

Speaking of DEAD SURE, watch the headlines soon for what will surely come to be known as "Vermonticide." I fully expect Dean to be killed in a mysterious plane crash this winter. And whose finger prints "won't" be found on the fuselage???????????????? Bet on it. Hitlery will strike again!

Wow. I didn't think about that. If Dean does really well, he'd have to go. If he were to win (not), Hillary would be really old before she has another chance. It's 2004 or 2008. That's all she has left.
THEN, she'd blame it on the VRWC !!

[nutmeg]

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[gipper81]

Hillary is assinated JFK? Where's the link?

[ZOOKER]

Makes a weird kind of sense. If she runs with Clark and they lose, she gets national campaign exposure and she blames the loss on him. Sets her up to run against the Pub rookie in '08.

If by some miracle they win in '04, getting rid of her beard should be easy. After all, he must be pretty dim to trust her in the first place (The fable about the frog and the scorpion comes to mind).

As for the Arkancide pool, put me in for 2 years and one day into Clark's presidency. It qualifies her for another term...

[aristeides]

My bet is blackmail.

Weasely Clark was nominated for the SOUTHCOM command, and the fourth star that went with it, over the objections of the Department of the Army, because of presidential pressure, two weeks after the Ron Brown crash.

[redhead]

(Love your tagline...)

[aristeides]

As for the Arkancide pool, put me in for 2 years and one day into Clark's presidency. It qualifies her for another term...

I think LBJ must have been thinking along those lines, when you consider when the JFK assassination took place.

[pax_et_bonum]

"Clark Eyes Hillary

Just ew."

You beat me to it! :-)

[ZOOKER]

JFK was more than two years into his term, wasn't he?

LBJ chose not to seek another term, but he could have, I suppose.

[My2Cents]

"She is very smart ... I like Hillary."

More evidence that Clark is a wack-job.

[BulletBobCo]

Clark Eyes Hillary

[spoonfork2000]

Even if Clark wins the nomination, Hillary will not run as VP.

Repeat after me: "Hilliary will not be on the Democrat ticket."

[aristeides]

LBJ intended to run for a third term up until Gene McCarthy humiliated him in the NH primary in early 1968.

[BulletBobCo]

Better yet..

Clark Eyes Hillary

[JayNorth]

Nah, more likely she'd run as VP for Clark the have him Foster'd...

Why do you think no one presidential candidate would want her "a heartbeat away from the presidency". We should start a pool on how she offs the Prez if the situation plays itself out. I'm betting on a) mysterious car crash or b) mysterious plane crash or c) mysterious suicide.

[Salvation]

puppeteer?

Hillary (and Bill) don't want to let loose of the purse strings of DNC................not the puppet strings........Hmmmm..........or are they the same thing?

[MegaSilver]

Can't. She promised NY she would finish her term - Many, many, times on national TV. Already she'd have one Clinton type lie on her record. Not to mention the impeached womanizer would be in tow.

And what harm did her hubby's lie(s) do to either one of them?

[I'm ALL Right!]

BAD MOVE, DEAN! If you want to be dead soon, go ahead. Hitlery will have you killed so she can be POTUS.

[JayNorth]

Naaaah, she won't take position #2...

We endured eight long years with her in the #2 position. And no, I won't go for the obvious jokes about who she was #2 to, or how the positions are numbered.

[BulletBobCo]

How far down the food chain would the Senator from New York be from taking over as President in the line of succession?