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."
This sounds suspiciously like a planted story. NO ONE who knows politics could begin to predict the outcome of an election 2 3/4 years away. So much can happen between now and then that would determine the kind of candidate Americans might be interested in having as president in 2008. If we were to be at war with Iran or things with North Korea were looking ugly, people might decide an inexperienced, and female, senator is not what they want in the White House. Or the economy could be doing even better in 08 which would also favor the Republicans.
And a big part of it depends on who the candidate for the GOP is. If we pick some nobody hack like George Allen who is as dull as John Kerry, and as slow-witted as they come not even able to beat Barbara Boxer in a debate on CNN in September when the utter dunce Boxer handed Allen his a**, then it could well be Hillary will cinch it. If however if the GOP will be a little pragmatic and go with a less than perfect in terms of ideological purity superstar like Rudy Guiliani then we have a real shot of beating Hillary. Rudy would definitely be the man to beat in that race. You don't beat a superstar with a dim bulb (Allen.)
Thank you for your perspective on this.
Balderdash.
Horse S* *T
You average American does not like to listen to dying alley cats
LMAO!
yeah me too...
well when you're desperate, as the Dems are, then you will make up things to make yourself feel better if nothing else....
This is complete garbage and has no credibility whatsoever.
There isn't even an author attributed to the story on the site.
In early 1995, everyone thought that there was no way that Klintoon could win in 1996 and look what happened.
George Allen is going to become a huge force as he becomes better known.
Hitlery could be totally destroyed once the Barrett Report becomes public, especially if the missing hundred pages are somehow leaked.
She sounded M E A N, didn't she?
If Hillary is going to be prez, I pray to God GWB gets to appoint at LEAST one more Supreme Court justice after Alito.
Total Insanity, Who are these nutbars?
I didn't hear her today or the replay on Shep's show; by evening I try to avoid those shows. And the hate that is out there now is so ugly I just can't stand to hear it.
My a$$.
I don't buy it for one minute.
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