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."
Don't worry. The Bush administration will not be running for President in 2008; it will be some other candidate. Let's see what he has to say about this.
I don't believe this for one minute. "Sources" my rear end.
Did anyone inform the author that a president can only serve 2 terms?
I feel as though this is ridiculous.
They can't possibly know anything of the sort. This is complete drivel by an author with writer's block
George Allen for President
Yeah... and Indianapolis won the Super Bowl this year, too.
What a bunch of crap. She is the most polarizing person in the nation and broken glass Republicans will have to be renamed to Broken bone Republicans.
I'd vote for McVain before I'd vote for the wicked witch from Arkansas.
BS
I thought she was from Chicago. Don't let her pass herself off as a southerner. It will only help her, and she doesn't deserve it.
Reading BS like this makes any normal person ill. But it's still BS.
Some failing health that was. I think he went to work later that day or the next. They live in a dream world, I think.
Sounds like Bush is sitting on another hand of cards with a poker face - let them think he doesn't care. Why was there talk that Rudy and Karl were huddled together last summer? Why would Laura Bush mention Condi Rice as wishful hoping that she'd be our first woman president? Nope, I'm not buying this piece of slander.
This is almost to funny.
Even the democratic party isn't this optimistic that Hillary will win.
A quick scan over at the DUmpster shows they want to throw her off the cliff.
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