Posted on 05/07/2006 7:29:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift says that Democrats shouldn't fear nominating Hillary Clinton as their presidential standard bearer in 2008, claiming that Republicans were just as nervous about Ronald Reagan's White House bid in 1980.
"I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability - and I came up with Ronald Reagan," Clift told the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" on Sunday.
The Newsweek scribe noted that Reagan "was the oldest person, at that time, to try to contest for the presidency as a frontrunner."
"He was a grade-B movie actor," she said, failing to mention Reagan's two terms as governor of the nation's largest state. "He had orange hair. And a lot of Republicans worried that he couldn't be elected."
"And look what happened," Clift said, referring to Reagan's two electoral landslides
One key difference, she said, would be Bill Clinton.
"That adds to the uncertain terrain," Clift told Fox. "It's very difficult to figure out what you're going to do with him" as First Man.
Whether Democrats are comfortable nominating Hillary or not may be a moot question, Clift warned, since she practically has the top prize locked up.
"When you look at who could challenge her and get around her in the primaries . . . it's very difficult to see who can run to her left - which is where the grassroots Democrats are in the primaries - and be a credible nominee.
"Eleanor is delusional."
Actually, if you look up 'delusional' in the dictionary, there is a picture of Eleanor there.
Listening to Eleanor is like asking your dog to explain string theory and then trying to interpret "woof, woof, woof".
Yeah, his amnesty plan is winning the base over, big-time.
Exactly his ratings could skyrocket instantly and he knows it with just a few proper moves.. Only a Bushbot would believe that it was NOT all according to some "plan".. Bush knows exactly what hes doing.. taking the republican party apart like a butcher.. And I'm NOT happy about it..
Reid and Pelosi are duds mere wallpaper, Bush is the main democrat operative..
The Shadow givernment is world wide not just domestic..
But the gross denial is great..
Oh but Mrs Clift, there is that - - nagging matter of all those -
- - communist chinese agents and other treasonous folks - -
that hillary and bill let into the White House:
Ng Lap Seng, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie; Manlin Foung, Wang Mei Trie, John Huang, Jane Huang, Johnny Chung, Col. Lui, Jing Wei Li, Irene Wu, Liu Tai-ying, Bin Liu, Irene Wu, Nora Lum, Shi JinYu, Shi-Zeng Chen, Xiao Yang, Liu Chao-Ying, Wang Jun, Wah Lim, General Ding Henggao, General Chi HaoTian, General Fu Quanyou, Chief of the General Staff of the PLA, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo, General Kui Fulin, "Col. Xu", Gen. Liu Huaquing, William Peh, PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian, China Resources chairman Shen Jueren, Lt. General Xiong Guangkai, Wang Liheng, vice-president of China Aerospace Corp, Gen. Ji Shengde, Bao Peide, 5th Vice Minister of the PRC, Zou Jia Hua, Vice Minister National Technology Planning, Lt. General Xu Qiliang, Chief of Staff of the PLA Air Force, Lt. General Wu Quanxu, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA, Zhu Roug-ji, Vice Premier of National Finance, Liu Ju-Yuan, Minister of China Aerospace Corporation (made both satellite orbiter version of Long March and the nuclear tippled missile version for the PLA), Keshi Zhan, Yue Chu, Xiping Wang, Nan Nan Xu, Chun-Fat Leung, Chang-Lin Tien, Liao Minglong, Tian Yi, Chen Qingchang, Pan Yongming, Shao Xingsheng, Jiangsu Yongli, Tongsun Park, David Chang and Sister Ping. Bernard Schwartz/Loral, Marvin Rosen, Keshi Zhan, Ken Hsui, Ms Melinda Yee, Hoyt Zia, Ira Sockowitz, Leon A. Panetta, Lanny Davis, Harold Ickes, William Meddoff, Alexis Herman, Jamie Gorelick, Hazel O'Leary, Mark Middleton, Nancy Hernreich, Craig Livingstone, Lynn Cutler, Neal Ainley, Maria Hsia, Robert Meyerhoff, Roger Tamraz, Joseph Landon, David Wang, Indonesian Arief Wiriadinata and his wife Soraya and convicted Miami drug trafficker Jose Cabrera; and also her ongoing association with China Poly Group Corporation / "Polytechnologies Incorporated," along with Hillary's ongoing ties with Ted Sioeng, Mochtar and James Riady and the Lippo Bank-Lippo Group & Lippo Pacific in Indonesia.
That would have been redundant
She is in a state of confusion. Her Heinous perceives herself as the double wide version of Evita Peron..
A definitional meeskeit(bitter spirit).
I just lost my lunch.
Excuse me, Eleanor Cliff
Barf alert???
How does Eleanor know...did she see Hillary naked?
When I see a picture of Eleanor Rodham Clift, or see her on TV, it makes me long to see Ann Lewis. That's how bad it is.
Like several years ago when Ellen RATner said "Hillary was the biggest hawk in the Senate on Iraq."
Clift is INSANE.
Reagan was a KNOWN quantity. You KNEW what reagan stood for. You did not have to "move to the center".
Hitlary is a left wing lunatic. She reminds me of every uptight female lawyer you could ever imagine.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.