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Posted on 02/10/2005 11:10:49 AM PST by Rummyfan
“Kill” Bill? Hillary’s got a problem of presidential proportions on her road back to the White House.
Let's admit it. Hillary is scary. And not only because she is extremely smart, totally driven, and a formidable fundraiser. Hillary's most impressive and most worrisome quality is that she is a self-improver. That girl can learn and change constantly even if it means contradicting herself. "That's not flip-flopping," I bet she'd say, nodding her head, which she always does when she's agreeing, "it's evolving."
And let's admit this, as well: Most guys are either too self-confident or too insecure to work so constantly and so hard on trying to improve and repackage themselves. Not our Hillary. Remember how she used to always change her hairdos — flip to pouf, long to short — as well as her style — hippie to fussy to de la Renta — until she finally settled on her current easy-to-blow-out do and her black-pantsuits-for-work and colored-ones-for-fundraisers look, both of which can hide those unfortunate legs?
In some ways she seems like one of those Star Trek villains who would baffle Captain Kirk for half a show because they keep changing form. Or, like The Matrix she can, not only change form, but the whole environment in order to protect herself or have her way. Maybe that's why a couple of weeks ago she tacked so noticeably to the right on abortion and, even before that, told a crowd in Boston that she really, really, really believes in faith-based initiatives.
Of course, at practically the same time — after she and Bill attended the Trump wedding reception — she spoke to crowd of the faithful at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and declared, "I believe that on both political and substantive grounds, my husband did it just right.... He took on hard issues that we pay a president for. Frankly, it is not that hard cutting people's taxes." She also complained "I don't see that thoughtful, visionary direction that got us where we are today," Yes, she was able to say with a straight face that Bill had the vision thing and Dubya doesn't.
Isn't it a relief to know that George and Laura would never attend Donald Trump's fourth wedding reception?
The other night a Democratic fundraiser told me that the only way Hillary could have a chance was to use the Karl Rove strategy and get out the base. But Karl Rove says that his strategy was increasing the base, and Hillary is smart enough to recognize that. Bob McCarthy, a writer at the Buffalo News, reported that she had an interesting little chat on just that subject with the reporters and editors of the paper when she was in Buffalo last week to give back-to-back speeches. She grew queasy and faint before a pro-choice women's group but still soldiered on to Canisius College, a bastion of Jesuit Catholicism. At Canisius, talking about health care, she managed to make respectful references to Cardinals Bernardin and O'Connor and, for good measure, the Gospel of St. Matthew.
According to McCarthy, she gave her opinion of what went wrong with Kerry's strategy, hinting how she might run her own campaign. "[Kerry's] campaign missed a lot of opportunities to make their case. There were a number of decisions — strategic decisions — that just didn't pan out. " Kerry, she said, worked hard to rally his Democratic base in the big cities of Ohio, writing off the outlying areas. Ditto for Nevada when he won Las Vegas and Reno but lost the hinterland. Hillary said when she was running for Senate, she was advised to concentrate on four out of the five boroughs of New York City, and the upstate cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany. She was told to write off the rural counties as "a waste of time." "But I looked at the numbers and the numbers didn't support that," she told Buffalo News staffers. "I was successful in shrinking the margins against me." In her decisive victory, she even won some traditionally GOP counties. So expect Hillary during the next year, even while she occasionally throws some red meat to her loyalists, to never " stop thinking about tomorrow" and the need to turn some "red" states purple in 2008.
But, of course, her greatest problem remains, not merely moderating her current views, but distancing herself her Hill-and-Bill past. Women — who she would have to win decisively — might find the historic opportunity to help elect the first woman president quite appealing. But not if that means having Bill back in the White House, even if he's merely hanging out in an office in the East Wing.
So what is our girl going to do? A Hillary on her own just might make her a much stronger candidate. Yes, she can change her views, but will she change her husband? Handling that challenge would be the greatest test yet of Senator Clinton's presidential ambitions.
Yea, I know. Rather "considerate" of her, huh?
Wonder what her reasoning is to drop it now?
Terrrrreeezzzzzzzzzz-uh!
Ugh!
My thoughts exactly.
Anyone with half a brain that is willing to forego morals, loyalty, truth and plain human decency can go very far in this world.
It's takes much more talent & intelligence than this woman ever had to do it honestly.
She probably never really considered it part of her name. Just tacked it on for political reasons.
>>Sounds like a movie script. <<
Maybe but one that could actually occur and then, of course, we'd have to see Lifetime's Movie of the Week on the blessed event.
Baaa hahahahah!
"...s Bill Clinton back in the White House as a Haus Frau? "
Put him in a French maid's outfit.
Here's a horrible thought, can Bill run for VP? Clinton/Clinton ticket. The American people have a short memory span.
Agreed. Remember the first article I read in some Sunday newspaper's magazine "introducing" her. Didn't care for her then.
Tu-reeee-zuh! should go eat a pickle.
UGH! ; >
An airplane crash....
"Hillary's most impressive and most worrisome quality is that she is a self-improver. That girl can learn and change constantly even if it means contradicting herself"
Yea, she's like a damn virus in the body of the Republic. Always evolving so the duud can't kill her.
The way I see it, it is now incumbent upon you to try to get those women to think beyond "I am women, hear me roar", and explain to them that they too stand to lose many of their freedoms and dollars if that woman gets elected. Perhaps you have already tried, but you gotta try again. You cannot in good conscience allow people to be so stupid and short sighted.
Most of them are at work, and I can't disrupt work. I did say early on to the most rabid Hillary worshipper and Bush hater that she could build a shrine to Hillary in her office, and tack propaganda all over her office, but to leave it off the common areas, i.e the fridge, or I wouldn't be able to work with her. So, I've set the rules, and I have to live by them. Other two women are lesbians, so you know i can't go there.
But I do try to infiltrate the minds of as many women as I come in contact with outside the office. And I think I made a difference with a few of them during the last campaign.
Hillary has two distinct camps -- those who love her and those who hate her. The NAG-HAGS and dem-lib-socialists who love her will never desert the camp -- no matter what she does or what she says. Those of us who hate her will never be swayed over to the dark side. We know too much about her and will never trust anything she does or says. Hopefully, there aren't enough wool-headed sheeple out there who can be spirited over to the dark side to make her electible.
Well, the lesbians, I can understand how they like Hillary. I mean with her legs and all...
And mostly I was just giving you crap. I know liberals don't listen to reason. Facts make their heads explode.
IN a Heartbeat
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You gave me crap and I fell for it. I hate when that happens! Eeeeehhhhgggg! : }
The rabid female Hillary worshipper/Bush hater is married to a college professor, so they're intellectuals, except she can't keep up with shi* in the office. Like some idiot savant. And she thinks Bush is so very dumb.
Actually, the other co-workers are either lesbians or gays, most of them, and I'm in the hell of liberalism, I'll tell you.
Selfimprover is the wrong word. A populist, a chameleon, a poll watcher, a trend follower, a fraud are all better words.
If Hillary was actually improving, she might eventually make a decent president. But for her to suddenly announce that she's an evangelical after the press credited evangelicals with putting Bush in office, smacks of hypocrisy.
Yes she reinvents herself or rather her image. And is quite good at it. Polls in NY have gone from 49% listing her in the top 6 least trustworthy individuals to now 67% listing her as trustworthy. That's quite an image change.
But I don't believe her core has changed one bit. It's all about power, it's all about self. And she will say and do whatever she thinks is necessary to get into power. But I don't trust anything she says.
Where the hell do you work, you poor thing?!
And you should have italicized "intellectual". The definition according to Webster is 'the ability to reason or understand', which obviously can never apply to a liberal. I assume you were being sarcastic.
Don't you love it when people misunderestimate Bush?
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