Posted on 07/30/2005 6:25:56 AM PDT by pabianice
Don't like Hillary? Join the club!
Political insiders mostly agree: Despite being an early front-runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton faces long odds of ever being elected president. But if she can't win, why can't she?
One facile argument, often voiced by Hillary-loathers on the right, is that she's too far to the left. The "real" Hillary is closer to Howard Dean than Bill Clinton, a recent piece in the National Review asserted. Wrong! An unhedged supporter of the war in Iraq, Sen. Clinton stands at the hawkish, interventionist extreme of her party on foreign policy. Despite her pandering vote against CAFTA, she's a confirmed free-trader and deficit hawk. On the cultural issues that often undermine Democrats, she seeks common ground, sometimes with flat-earth conservatives like Rick Santorum, and has been nattering about the "tragedy" of abortion. Even Hillary's notorious government takeover of health care was misconstrued as an ultra-lib stance. In opting for a mixed, private-public managed-competition plan, the then-first lady was repudiating the single-payer model long favored by paleo-liberals. Her plan was flawed in many ways, but it wasn't what Ted Kennedy wanted...
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Of course she is. "Deficit hawk" being defined as "vigorous advocate for high tax rates."The truth is, of course, the such prior "deficit hawks" as LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Tip O'Neal, Robert Byrd, George Mitchel, et al have "deficit hawked" us into a huge financial hole known as the "Social Security Trust Fund" - trillions of dollars "invested in safe government bonds" which are liabilities to the federal treasury. Debt which will come home to roost in the next generation, with the Retirement Boom echo of the Baby Boom. And the only solution which Hillary or any other Democrat offers is more of the same, on autopilot until the Federal Government has no money for anything else - and devalues its debt via inflation.
I think its dangerous to assume she can't win. Unfortunately, she will be a stronger candidate than most assume. Make no mistake, the Left and MSM will go ALL out for her, in a way they never did for Gore, Kerry, or even her husband. It will be war and the GOP won't have a strong candidate like W to oppose her. They know that if she wins the election, that will be the last fair national election this country will ever have.
He lost, didn't he? Must have been because not enough people knew about his Viet Nam tours. Blame the MSM for that.
No way the American voters will make us have Hillary as Commander in Chief. That woman is the devil and would ruin morale in the military.
But...but...but... she's against violent video games. That makes her a 'centrist'.
This is actually a pro-Hillary piece that is trying to point out what a centrist Hillary is, because in the end everyone knows that the Democrat fringe groups will vote for a zombie as long as he has a "D" after his name.
I do think that RICE on the ticket neuters the female dog.
Absent that, and barring her unfortunate demise, the clintons may very well return to office, and we all will be saying "President Clinton" for another 8 years, while the DU laughs.
LOL!
And you wonder why the SwiftVets got "traction" last year and ruined Senator Kerry's campaign and why Dan Rather/CBS News took a major beating over those faked Texas ANG memos. Senator Hillary Clinton can't count on a friendly press anymore because the modern public Internet with its bloggers will start digging up all the "dirt" on her and that could cause her no end of grief in 2008.
Kerry damn near beat a sitting president.
We were one state away from having that boob in the White house.
And Hillary will have the Clinton machine, and that worries me more than hollywood, Dean and the DNC.
Welcome to FR troll. Hopefully you can get some enlightenment in here. It's a much happier place than DU.
Yeah, he lost...by 3%. He should have lost by at least 20% if not for the efforts of the MSM.
Don't even suggest that. Hillary Clinton would be a disaster in more ways than you can imagine. Who knows what she is capable of, but I can believe she would be the President most likely to cause a military coup in this country, and that's saying a lot.
Yup...........No matter who the dems put up, the repubs will always have to fight the MSM attack machine also.
Why can't Hillary explain how her fingerprints got on those Whitewater documents which she claimed she knew nothing about?
"Ignore her voting record, she's nothing like that. And, while you're at it, ignore her speeches to her base, she's nothing like that either. Especially ignore when she says socialist things like, 'We're going to take things away from you for the common good', because she's really not like that."
It ain't rocket science.
Hillary does have some support among the college age women as I have been apprised. But for the no-nonsense, conservative to moderate folk I have talked to, they all see her as the conniving "wife" of a philandering rapist who will do whatever it takes to gain power.
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