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."
The mere thought of that Witch in the White House makes me ill!
Bwahahahaha!
I love President Bush and I'd vote for him again if I could, but the party is in sorry shape right now mostly because Bush has more or less abdicated on any meaningful domestic agenda for the last five months. It's as if after Social Security failed, Katrina hit, and scandals entered the media, the White House has been shell shocked. His free-spending has annoyed the party, and you can't organize Republicans around big government spending in an election year.
The other problem is that Bush has not groomed a successor for 2008. No one in the Party, so far as I can see, has the guts, intelligence, and communication ability to square off against Senator Clinton. She will do absolutely whatever it takes to win.
Bush is no different than any other politician in this regard. It is all about him, and he gives little thought to the care of his movement after he is gone. Part of the problem is that Bush has probably never considered himself to be part of a movement.
"Then it was proved otherwise. Do we think that Hillary didn't know this?"
PLEASE keep remembering that! Every Democrat alive will sell you and your Democratic family down the river...and then bill you for the full price of the trip!
But sadly, there are many, many people out there that still believe this was all a set-up; that the Clintons are innocent of all wrong-doing and that it's a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that keeps them from their birth-right as King & Queen of America.
Work hard to defeat them. Whenever and wherever you can.
I don't that they would hire her as a cleaning lady. She was so messy before :-)
Cheer up, it's good strategy for her to think that she has it in the bag.
I used to think she's a lock for the Democrat nomination. Now I'm not even sure about that!
.....Bush is NOT running in 2008.
Of course.
What I meant was that the tone of this article is such that it implies that the President heard this...and decided not to do anything to support the chances of the 2008 nominee.
I just can't see the President saying "Oh, well, I guess it's over for our philosophies. Hello, Hillary"
That's just what I'm saying.
Yes, there goes the whole ball of wax.
God forbid...
He's a Senator. He'll never make President, no matter how nice, honest or forthright he is. But, I'm more than willing to eat those words if he wins the Highest Office in the Land. ;)
Look to a GOP Governor in a Red or even a Blue State that is a man of faith. That's where the even money lies. The tide is turning, Baby! Morals rule. Socialists drool.
Wouldn't it be great, though, if Coburn DID make it...
This coming from a name such as The Insight?
Yea, "seeing is believing" can be such a formidable phrase.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
You don't like her ex-wife from Hell tone of voice? And then she really gets going and owie, that hurts.
Hillary's nomination, if it happens, will galvanize millions of GOP volunteers. Count on me.
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Wishful, fantasy thinking. Hillary is more of a lightning rod that George Bush ever thought of being.
Hillary's nomination, if it happens, will galvanize millions of GOP volunteers. Count on me.
Hell even id vote Republican then
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