Posted on 01/16/2006 4:38:45 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
President Bush's advisers are resigned to the Democratic capture of the White House in 2008, according to senior Republican sources close to the White House.
GOP sources said White House strategists have attempted to persuade Mr. Bush that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat and her party’s current front-runner to be the next presidential nominee, cannot be defeated in 2008. Bush strategists said the president should instead focus on seeking to retain the Republican majority in both houses of Congress in 2006 and 2008.
"There is nobody in the White House that will openly say we lost the presidency in 2008," a senior GOP source said. "But while the Democrats are completely focused on 2008, the White House has been completely aloof."
The strategists have argued that given the forecasts of a downturn in the economy, crises with China and Iran, Mrs. Clinton would be besieged with major problems that would ensure a one-term presidency, the sources said.
The strategists have pointed out that Mr. Bush, given the failing health of Vice President Dick Cheney, does not have a natural successor. Recently, Mr. Cheney, who suffers from heart problems, was rushed to the hospital because he had difficulties in breathing.
The sources said the strategists have assessed that Mrs. Clinton would easily win the Democratic leadership and the subsequent race for president. They said Mr. Bush has pledged to campaign vigorously for any GOP presidential nominee.
Administration sources said Mr. Bush has discussed the prospect of a Clinton presidency. But they asserted that the president has focused on the 2006 elections for Congress and the need to maintain the GOP majority.
"If we lost our majority in Congress, then the president immediately becomes a lame duck," an administration source said. "So, the talk of 2008 is not only premature, it's harmful."
He supports killing babies. That makes him a non-starter.
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Clinton slams Bush at King event, says Congress like `plantation'
AP via Newsday ^ | 1/16/06 | DEEPTI HAJELA`
Posted on 01/16/2006 5:31:42 PM CST by conservative in nyc
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," Clinton, D-N.Y., told the crowd at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/bill_clinton/?offset=45&s=oldest&inline=nyt-per
EDITORIAL DESK | November 25, 1991
Times Select Content The D.C. Plantation: Freedom Soon?
The effort to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., could well become a campaign issue in 1992. A bill that would admit the District to the Union as New Columbia, the 51st state, was introduced in the Senate on Thursday. And hearings on the House version of the bill saw a welcome burst of enthusiasm. Three Democratic Presidential candidates testified in favor of statehood. That's as it should be. The District's treatment is a scandal, albeit one with a long history. The Federal Government runs the city like a plantation, denying it a voting representative in Congress, forbidding it even rudimentary self-rule and limiting severely its ability to raise revenue.
In 1996 the Internet was not even close to being as popular as it is today -- clinton couldn't have survived.
Hillary would definitely get out the vote.
It would take more than broken glass to keep me from voting against her.
Hillary cannot win the presidential election no matter how much propaganda is put out on her behalf. She has way too much baggage starting with BJ Bill.
Why is the article referring to "Mr. Bush" rather than President Bush?
Unnamed source, unnamed author. Comedy gold.
doo dah doo dah..........LOL.
We can look to the emerging conservative news outlets, and the Barrett report (hopefully) to torpedo a Hillary candidacy. I hope it's enough. I don't think the country could easily weather another Clinton presidency.
You can't really blame Bush, I suppose, for not actively pushing a replacement candidate. It would undermine his own power. So I suppose we won't see a candidate emerge until fairly late in the day.
The MSM are jumping in to push their candidates--notably McCain. But I don't think the Republican party is that stupid and suicidal.
Still, it looks like a race to see who can screw up the most, rather than a race to see who can field the best candidate with the best platform. The Democrats don't even have a platform they can admit to publicly.
"...the White House has been completely aloof."
I didn't know George Bush from Gomer Pyle until the 2000 campaign, other than that he was the Governor of Texas, he put children first, he was in a long-term marriage, and he was a Man of Faith. The GOP Political Machine was able to reach me and convince me of his merits all the way up here in "Blue Wisconsin" with radical Gore-Bots screaming in my ears each and every day.
I'm banking that the GOP will do the same in 2008. And if all goes as planned, Wisconsin will have a GOP Governor to greet our new GOP President. ;)
Anything can happen between now and 2008 so I refuse to entertain that Hillary's capture of the WH in '08 is a fait accompli...I just saw exerpts of her speaking on MLK day in NYC and she has the most annoying speaking voice...will certainly turn a lot of voters off, I hope, I hope...
Riight, who are these sources?
GOP sources said White House strategists have attempted to persuade Mr. Bush that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat and her party’s current front-runner to be the next presidential nominee, cannot be defeated in 2008. Bush strategists said the president should instead focus on seeking to retain the Republican majority in both houses of Congress in 2006 and 2008.
I don't know who these strategists might be, but speaking from a person who was raised in a totally democratic family, I can say that we were lost when Clinton lied to us. "I did not have sex with that women" was our belief. Then it was proved otherwise. Do we think that Hillary didn't know this? Nope. Now, I also begin to question the Clinton administration on national security. Do I think that Hillary will make us safer? Not at all.
But Tom Coburn is not from Wisconsin...
"I feel ill!"
I hope you're kidding. One of the things I personally
am NOT worried about are the prognostications of
these folks. Another is whether or not Hillary
will be president. How can the most hated woman
in the world be president?
I'm really getting tired of Republicans sticking
their heads UP under their arms everytime some
Dem makes a guess.
Look at the bright side of life! If Hillary is elected, think of all the artwork, china and silver that will find its way back home to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And think of the MSM swooning over shrieking state of the union addresses!
And think of the gay men and women who will be welcomed into the military to fight our next wars with Iran and China!
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