Posted on 05/30/2005 9:51:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
FIRST lady Laura Bush would defeat US senator Hillary Rodham Clinton if the two were to face each other in the 2008 presidential contest, Vice President Dick Cheney said overnight.
Mr Cheney made the prediction after his wife, Lynne Cheney, suggested the matchup in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live.
Mrs Cheney noted the rampant speculation that the former first lady, now a senator from New York, would make a bid in the next presidential contest.
President George W. Bush cannot seek a third term in office. His father, former President George Bush, was defeated after one term by former President Bill Clinton.
"You know, people are thinking of Mrs Clinton running for president. I think Mrs Bush ought to run for president," Mrs Cheney said.
"If we want to have a Bush dynasty, let's get Laura Bush."
The vice president, who again ruled out making his own run for president when Mr Bush's term ends, agreed.
"It's a great idea," Dick Cheney said. "And I think I know who would win too."
If hillary runs, Laura definately should run :) :) I would vote for Laura!!!
OHH I going ping Daily Dose on this story
HEY I vote for Laura Bush better than Hill Beast
Are we becoming a country in which the only people who have a realistic chance of being elected to high office are people who are already well-known to millions of people because of their celebrity status, or else who have family or political connections to those already in high office? It seems to be a disturbing trend.
Oh Lordy! Wouldn't that be SWEET! Hitlery getting spanked by Laura!!!
Our "First Lady" is a class act!
OH that be classic would been awsome if Barbara Bush Sr would been younger if she could take on Hill Beast that be classic LOL!
In this corner Silver Fox Barbara Pierce Bush from Maine/Texas/DC
vs Hill Beast LOL!
I think even Barney Bush would beat Hitlery.
This was a neat piece of political jujitsu--ostensibly just praising Laura who is extraordinarily popular while by implication denigrating the very polarizing Hillary as just another wife of ..
But doesn't Hillary have a weight advantage?
Nearly 300 million people in this country, and all we hear for president is Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton. Sheesh.
This is a perfect example of the out of touch with reality view of many Republicans.
Is Laura Bush a relatively classy lady? Of Course.
Is Hillery a scheming, machevellian egocentric demagogue? Also true.
But Laura Bush is not a politican. My guess is she is also far more liberal than her husband.
Hillery would chew her up and spit her out.
YAHOOOO. Another Pro Abortion Republican. But hey as long as we keep winning, we can keep increasing our majority in the senate. Who knows, after 2006, McCain might have 14 GOPers on his side.
yup , Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton also has a lower center of gravity ["just like Crisco,all the fat's in the can"]
When was it different?
When was it different?
Never? Perhaps things seem worse now because we've just had two Bush presidents, we're seeing a possible Hillary run on Bill's coattails, and now there's talk of Jeb Bush and Laura Bush and the like. And of course there's Ah-nold, an actor, after Reagan, an actor. And Kelsey Grammar is talking about going into politics. The list could be extended, of course...
The Amazon versus a real lady. Make that a real woman. No contest. Americans, men and women, respect a real lady. Go Laura!
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Me too. Because:
"I think for me, the sickest and scariest kind of rage is the Hillary Clinton kind of rage. You know, the perpetual permafrost smile she wears that's hiding a well of fury deeper than Barry White's voice during a bout of pneumonia." -- Dennis Miller
"What can you say about Hillary Clinton that hasn't already been muttered under somebody else's breath?" -- Dennis Miller
No one seriously thinks Mrs. Bush is going to run for school board head, let alone president.
By implication, Mrs. Bush is as well qualified as Mrs. Clinton (the point being that Mrs. Clinton is NOT qualified).
I imagine the Republican candidate will be George Allen, if things go as they currently are trending. President and Mrs. Bush will retire to their ranch in Crawford for a well-deserved rest, Jeb Bush is going to go into the private sector, and all of you dynasty-phobics can then rest easy.
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