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.
Reagan had a black step son?
Eleanor is delusional
So's Hillie.
How come there was no BARF warning on the post!!!!?
He must have
This won't get the controversy Eleanor so clearly wanted. Ho hum, kneejerk lib attempt to toss some red meat and get some PR out of the frenzy. Been a long time since Eleanor wrote or spoke a single word of interest.
You got that right.
Well, they are both men.
Yeah... so she can really clamp down on the illegal immigrants.....Right?
Talk about jamming the furniture into the right room to make it fit...LOL! Reagan had principles and applied them. Hillary has principals that carry her sewage away until they drop from er...um...suicide or criminal conviction.
I never put a barf warning to a article from NewsMax, which is very conservative.
But only one was manly :)
Other than the fact that both were born in Illinois I can't imagine what they have in common.
She must be correct, because plenty on this board are voting for Hill and First Husband, Bill.
Hillary is more like Michael Dukakis if you want to make a more fair analogy.
Hillary is like John Kerry with more baggage. Unelectable inside the "parentheses".
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