Hillary's path to the White House

The American Thinker ^ | May 7th, 2004 | Thomas Lifson

[ride the whirlwind]

Hill -o- Ree! (God forbid)

[Rummyfan]

Hillary wants to be president? Ohmigawd, I'm so scared! I say 'Bring it on, Baby!' and she will so energize the opposition base she will be destroyed. Add to that the fact that any time she speaks extemporaneously she sticks her foot in her mouth (remember Gandhi the gas station attendant?). C'mon Smartest Woman in the World, let's see what you got.

[Nonstatist]

Kind of contrived scenario. Hitlery gambled that Bush would be tough to beat this year, and maybe he isn't, but its too late for her, IMO.

[don'tbedenied]

Dope smoking paranoia. The mechanics of changing the ballots in 50 states, the majority of which are controlled by the R's makes this some weird horror fantasy. Kerry has to voluntarily quit prior to the nomination for this to happen.

[Carry_Okie]

Hillary wants to be president? Ohmigawd, I'm so scared! I say 'Bring it on, Baby!' and she will so energize the opposition base she will be destroyed. Add to that the fact that any time she speaks extemporaneously she sticks her foot in her mouth (remember Gandhi the gas station attendant?). C'mon Smartest Woman in the World, let's see what you got.

That's why she's going to pop in at the last minute so that all she has to do is stand and smile in the media glow.

[Carry_Okie]

Kerry has to voluntarily quit prior to the nomination for this to happen.

Yup.

[Howlin]

This is from another thread:

Morris cracked me up last night. He said "a Hillary run for the white house would bring out 110% of the base, and thats not a rhetorical answer, I'm including voter fraud".

And my comment was, "Yeah. Ours."

[ride the whirlwind]

I don't think she's as formidable as this author seems to think.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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As she grills RUMSFELD today on National TV in Time of War...


.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629

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HILLARY and TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts

[Zack Nguyen]

...demonstrate to Kerry that the Clintons are fully capable of – in the currently popular metaphor – sucking the oxygen out of his campaign, if they choose to use their hold on the media, the Democrats’ base, and the charisma chasm which separates Bill Clinton from John Kerry.

Let's remember that the Clinton's are not all powerful. Remember who they backed for President? Wesley "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" Clark? How did that turn out? Clark flopped, and Clinton lent significant backdoor support to him.

[TomEwall]

Why doesn't she just have aliens switch her identity with Kerry? That would be simpler.

[rockrr]

OK, that's the best rendering (and when I think of the Hilde-beast, my thoughts go to rendering ;'} on this topic, but it's still tin foil territory.
The tortuous manipulations necessary to pull this off as so "off the map" that it is simply unthinkable.
Of course I do recognize that leftists would readily vote for a jar of urine if that turned out to be their candidate....

[sarasota]

Who is the author? Some nuanced writer pandering for a job in Hill's cabinet? Talk about conspiracy theories.

[RebelBanker]

The biggest hole I see in this scenario is in convincing John F'ing Kerry to accept Hildabeast as his running mate.

He would have to realize that he would be massively overshadowed, which is something I do not think his ego would take well. He would also have to realize that he would be a prime candidate for Arkancide or at least Torching.

The other point is that Kerry is part of the Kennedy wing of the Dem party, which (I believe) is and has been in a deathmatch with the Clinton wing of the party.

[ride the whirlwind]

Kind of contrived scenario.

There is a lot here to digest, that's for sure!

[Zack Nguyen]

She also probably recognizes that her own talents as a campaigner are limited enough that a long, drawn-out Presidential race might not come out the way she wishes.

This is true. Hillary's stump skills are extremely limited. She is a poor public speaker. She is better in one-on-one interviews. But in all honesty most politicians are poor public speakers when compared to polished speakers of 80 and 100 years ago.

[ride the whirlwind]

Since you asked about the author - FWIW:

Thomas Lifson is a management consultant in Berkeley, California, specializing in US-Japanese management issues. A self-styled recovering academic, he graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in political science, and received a masters degree in East Asian studies from Harvard, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a doctorate in sociology from Harvard. He subsequently taught all three fields on the faculty at Harvard, and also taught economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of International Affairs. He is a partner in the award-winning winery Sunset Cellars, in Alameda, California.

I looked at a couple of his other recent articles. He seems like a pretty straight shooter for the most part.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

The Teresa factor might well make Senator Kerry uniquely vulnerable to “persuasion” and “reason” coming from uniquely well-informed sources

And if that doesn't work, there's always Arkancide.

[sticker]

If hillary gets the nomination as Vice President on a John Kerry ticket, Kerry's life expectation would be the same has that of a beer at a frat party

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Well, he is trying to be just like JFK.

Okay, here's today's totally whacked-out paranoid theory. Maybe, with not releasing his medical records and all, he didn't beat cancer. And knowing this, he plans to accept Hillary as his running mate to ensure that he truly does exit the stage of history just like John F. Kennedy, thus ensuring that he will be immortalized in the names of thousands of middle schools and public works projects.

'scuse me, I gotta go get Vince Flynn on the phone...