Posted on 10/11/2005 8:12:32 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
There is only one force on Earth capable of preventing Sen. Hillary Clinton from winning the White House in 2008 - and her name is Condoleezza Rice
That is the thrust of a new book by former Bill Clinton adviser-turned-nemesis Dick Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann. A copy was obtained by the Daily News.
In "Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race," Morris and McGann paint a potential presidential catfight as a struggle between good and evil - and New York's junior senator is wearing the black hat.
"There is one, and only one, figure in America who can stop Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State Condoleezza 'Condi' Rice," they write.
If elected, Clinton would "reinvent what we have called the secret police to destroy those who stand in her way."
"Hillary has a sense of entitlement that leaves her vulnerable to the temptations of financial misconduct," they write.
Clinton is not just "untested" by crisis, the authors write, but the former First Lady is a crybaby who "often succumbs to tears in times of adversity."
By contrast, Rice "never needed to exaggerate her record or credentials" and is an even better Christian than Clinton, according to the authors.
"Hillary has been embroiled in scandal after scandal, ever since she entered public life," they write. "In stark contrast, Condi's past is without blemish."
The authors also argue that Rice's chances would be better because she is single.
They even make this claim: "Her success has never been a matter of hitching her wagon to the political fortunes of any powerful man."
But a few pages later, they undermine their own argument by noting that Rice and President Bush are on a "shared journey" and that one of her political patrons was the first President Bush.
Morris, who was President Bill Clinton's political guru until a high-priced hooker revealed his toe-sucking fetish, has made a second career out of bashing the Clintons.
Sen. Clinton, who is running for reelection, declined to discuss the Morris book or the next presidential contest.
"Senator Clinton remains focused on being the best senator she can be for the people of New York," her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said.
Morris isn't the only Fox News fulminator with a book out about Sen. Clinton. Susan Estrich's "The Case for Hillary Clinton" is a Valentine to the former First Lady.
Only VOTERS can keep Hillary out of the White House. And unified like that, I fear another Ross Perot or other 3rd party sucking up Repbulican votes putting her in, but asie from that, the voting General public will keep Hillery out. It is way to early though to speculate to much over it though. 08 is a long way away as politics are concerned, things often change overnight.
A lot of times I agree with Morris' political analysis, but he's just dead wrong here. While of course Condi would be a popular choice, John McCain and Rudy Guiliani could easily beat her too. The thing is, Hillary has a real upward climb to capture enough red state votes to take an electoral majority. Where in the South is Hillary going to possibly take any Bush states? She will be hard-pressed to hold Midwestern states Kerry won like Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not that we should underestimate Hillary. We can ill-afford a piss poor candidate who's little known, like the feckless poorly spoken Sen. George Allen or the capable but too milk toast Bill Frist, to go up against a strong powerhouse like Hillary. We'll need to select a star from our party too. But if we give the country a good alternative Hillary is imminently beatable because the electoral math is not favorable for her.
Team Bush is tainted now. The only way to get the nomination now is to be non-Bush.
Cheney/Rice in 2008
You need more than a solid South and a solid Mountain West to win. You need a few swing states like Ohio too.
So, not much of a chance then, I take it?
I think...Hill has to much to hide, while being Senator is high profile...it's not the highest office in the land. If she runs for POTUS she will expose her stance on issues as well as the smoke and mirrors, which is her background.
She has stayed popular by use of double speak and somewhat of a nebulous stance on certain issues. Remember, it's the press that continues to trumpet her siren call...even if the "masses" of her support are no where to be found. In all honesty, I dont "think" she has altogether overwhelming popular support within her own party, but with the media as it is...it's hard to gauge.
IMHO she never makes it out of the primaries...she's not a winner on the national level, and I think the democrats, at least the sober/rational ones, know that.
Too many people will come out of the woodwork to make sure this pariah never sees the oval office.
The democrats are just fantasizing with their jurno-tools in the media, every time her name is brought up as a presidential candidate.
Sounds like another Bush-Gore - lose-lose for conservatives.
Point to Ms. Rice. Now for the all important Legs Competition.
He agrees with you. He just doesn't think they can make it through the primaries. He's right.
How does Hillary win the Democratic nomination? She isn't a hardline antiwar candidate, so she's not liked among the DU/Sheehan crowd. The unions are split now, and her pro-NAFTA position probably insures that she won't get a solid backing of all the union groups. She simply isn't believable playing the "I'm the one who can win" card, since Democrats know that a lot of groups hate her.
Because of her gender and her "for the children" spiel, she'll do well among suburban women who aren't angry enough to be DU/Sheehan types. That will win her a few states, but not enough to win the nomination.
I'm still betting it will be John Edwards. Imagine John and Elizabeth going on Oprah. They could talk about Elizabeth's experience with cancer and how it made them realize how we need to make health care more about the patient and less about the money, blah, blah, blah. Now on FR, we know that's manipulative garbage, but I think that would sell well among a large sector of Democratic voters.
(I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary is going to doctors right now and saying "Is there a way you can give me some kind of disease that I won't die from and will have a difficult but ultimately successful recovery? I need to be well by the end of 2007. I have to match Elizabeth in this area.")
I will concede that Ohio is in play if it gets a dem governor.
I was thinking Newt Gingrich and George Allen, however, I like your choice better--George and Condi...ALLEN/RICE...that's it!
As of the moment I wouldn't vote for either of them.
The American people didn't know the Clintons at all in `92, but we know them very well now.
'Halloween, Hillary, The Sequel'? Ain't gonna happen--no way, Jose.
He is a crack head.
The polls show at least in Guiliani's case he's wrong. Right now in the last poll I showed Guiliani was on top with McCain not far behind.
The polls show at least in Guiliani's case he's wrong. Right now in the last poll I saw it showed Guiliani was on top with McCain not far behind.
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