Posted on 05/09/2005 1:04:59 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
It would be the perfect media match, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton versus First Lady Laura Bush for president in 2008. Not possible, you say? Mrs. Clinton, after all, is almost certain to be running for her party's nomination. After her recent hilarious and deft comic performance at the recent White House correspondents' dinner in the nation's capital, Mrs. Bush, already far more popular than her husband, is now clearly the most well-liked woman in America.
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Savage has already posed this question.
I think it's a ridiculous thought, but hey, that's just me..
I have an even better idea. How about, for the FIRST TIME IN OVER THIRTY #$&*ING YEARS, we run a Presidential election without a Bush, a Clinton, or a Dole on either party's ticket?!
-Dan
LOL.....what a concept
d'uh... being a very nice first lady and a sweet person, dont automatically qualify her for a presidency.
Agree..!....But who..??....George Allen..?....
Is that saying much? Most of the well-known women in America at this point are trashy celebrities.
Yep...
I was just talking about this the other day. I'd vote for her.
Jeb Bush in '08 and '12; First Lady Laura Bush in '16 and '20; George P. Bush in '24 and '28; twin Jenna Bush in '32 and '36; other twin Barbara Bush in '40 and '44; etc., etc., etc.
Agree..!....But who..??....George Allen..?....
Well, that's kinda the problem with the Bush Dynasty, isn't it? In steamrolling Bush's competition on the right in 2000, in shutting down all the other competitors, Dubya and Rove have extinguished the talent in the conservative wing, by scattering them and removing them from the public eye, starving them all for oxygen.
That leaves only RiNO's and liberals in the public eye, guys like McCain and Rudy Giuliani and Bill Frist, who IMHO is the most conservative of the three but muffled and compromised (like Bob Dole was) by his Senate-leadership job.
And before anyone tells me how conservative McCain is, let's look at the last three or four years' worth of ACU ratings -- his lifetime rating is higher but unrepresentative of where he's coming from now, again IMHO. I wouldn't trust him on either right-to-life or RKBA, and certainly not Giuliani, who probably doesn't even know anyone who owns his own gun.
About other issues, okay, talk to me, but I don't see anyone I can trust on those issues -- Frist maybe, but all establishment Republicans have to be watched like a hawk on RKBA, because their demographic instinct, as the tools of employers and plutocrats and other guilty consciences, is to restrict gun ownership to "people like us". Again IMHO. That's the system Britain had, before Dunblane went down and they confiscated everything in sight.
George P's country was attacked a few years ago and his nation remains at war, sending (in many cases) young women from Appalachia and the ghetto to fight as "George P." watches it on television.
The fact that "George P." is where he is and not in uniform, say a great deal about "George P.".
Let's find somebody who was man enough to wear the uniform of his country.
If they don't get zotted from Olympus first.
Believe me, the Yacht Club Wing won't stand idly by and let anyone do to them again what Ronnie did in '76 and '80 -- i.e., rock the boat.
It's their boat. We only get to row it. Get it? Advantages of specialization and all that. (Did you go to Yale.....? Oh. Never mind, then. Carry on.)
Hillary suffers greatly when compared to our current classy first lady. Hillary looses on charm, wit, poise, grace under pressure, and every other measure of one's character, when compared to Laura Bush.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice beats the pants-suit off Hillary when it comes to raw brain power.
Senator Kay Baily Hutchison has a much more distinguished career of accomplishment in the senate than Hillary.
Hillary is really only a celebrity because she is a celebrity, somewhat like Paris Hilton, only Hillary is ugly.
Hillary's only strength is the Clinton News Network and other members of the fading main street media.
If Hillary is repeatedly compared to the high profile women in the republican camp, she will be exposed as the second rate candidate that she truly is, whether or not one of the high profile republican women chooses to run against her.
It is the job of those of us in this increasingly effective "new media" to make that comparison.
How about putting up the best possible candidate and not focus on gender or race?
----It would be the perfect media match, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton versus First Lady Laura Bush for president in 2008.----I have an even better idea. How about, for the FIRST TIME IN OVER THIRTY #$&*ING YEARS, we run a Presidential election without a Bush, a Clinton, or a Dole on either party's ticket?!
I have an EVEN BETTER idea: how about we choose our president dispassionately - without regard to what their last name is? If we do that, we Republicans will not restrict our candidates to those having the surnames Bush, Dole, or Clinton and will not restrict our candidates to those who are not named Bush, Dole, or Clinton.How about we choose our Republican nominee from among those of our party who have the sort of credentials that a winning presidential candidate tends to have? Wanted: a candidate who is a fresh enough face to not be overage in grade, who is known as an executive, and who can get votes in the South and in the swing states Republicans must carry to win.
People who have been popular two-term governors who first won election after 1993 are thin on the ground. George Allen fits that bill. And the other name that comes to mind is the Governor of Florida, who happens to bear the surname Bush. Any other names come to mind?
- Nobody has been elected president without attaining at least the vice presidency within 14 years of being elected governor or senator.
- It is unusual almost to the point of being an anomaly when the winning presidential candidate isn't a governor or a renowned general who won a big war.
- And if a candidate can't win the South and Ohio and Florida, we don't want to nominate him or her even if s/he can win the election.
Hillary or Laura is a dumb idea.
I'd prefer to elect a leader and not a media image.
Who are America's great, articulate leaders? I like the next president to come from that group.
amen
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