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Eleanor Clift: Hillary Clinton Like Ronald Reagan
NewsMax ^ | May 7, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: delusional; delusionalliberal; eleanorrat; hildabeast; hillary2008; hitlery; lesbianlovers; mushforbrains; thunderbutt; totalbonehead
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To: Kaslin
I woke up this morning and though I read that Eleanor clift had said that Hillary was just like Reagan. I told my wife. She is now in the process of sending me off to a home for Alzheimer's patients.

HELP!!!

21 posted on 05/07/2006 7:37:33 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Kaslin

Fact number One, Ronald Reagan was not a lesbian

Fact number Two, Ronald Reagan never made a fortune dealing in cattle futures.

Fact number Three, Ronald Reagan was not married to BJ Clinton.


22 posted on 05/07/2006 7:37:38 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Kaslin

Kaslin, Psycho, cmsgop, et al

Eleanor is all of the above and more. She is a twit whose time has (almost) come and definitely gone.

vaudine


23 posted on 05/07/2006 7:38:12 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: Kaslin
I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability

How about George McGovern?

24 posted on 05/07/2006 7:38:27 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I guess I forgot how to spell "thought".


25 posted on 05/07/2006 7:38:31 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Kaslin

Eleanor has to be the world's whiniest woman,


26 posted on 05/07/2006 7:38:32 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: Darkwolf377

Some people are so like children who scream, "Look, look at me."


27 posted on 05/07/2006 7:38:47 AM PDT by Socratic ("I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.")
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To: DainBramage

LOTFLMAO


28 posted on 05/07/2006 7:39:11 AM PDT by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Re: Your pictures. I am afraid you are confusing NewsMax with Newsweak. Two completely different magazines


29 posted on 05/07/2006 7:39:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They both have hairy armpits.


30 posted on 05/07/2006 7:39:51 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Kaslin

And Eleanor is like a crack whore, except she's better paid than most.

Regards, Ivan


31 posted on 05/07/2006 7:40:49 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Nothing whatsoever


32 posted on 05/07/2006 7:41:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Eleanor is a disgusting leftist propagandist.

She is always hoping that someone somewhere is stupid enough to listen to what she has to say.

If Democrats nominate Hillary it will be because they were bamboozled by her shift to the center and think she will win. It will not because she stands by her Marxist "principles".

Proposed sign for Hillary hecklers: "Who is Saul Alinsky?"
33 posted on 05/07/2006 7:41:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Should traitors live long enough to have book deals?)
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To: roses of sharon

I doubt it.


34 posted on 05/07/2006 7:41:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Uh, Eleanor Clift doesn't work for NewsMax....


35 posted on 05/07/2006 7:41:53 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (FR's most controversial FReeper)
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To: Kaslin

OMG, what in hell is she spiking her koolaid with???


36 posted on 05/07/2006 7:43:42 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (If you don't understand the word "Illegal", then the public school system has failed you.)
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To: hgro

Fact number 4 Reagan was an American


37 posted on 05/07/2006 7:44:23 AM PDT by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: Kaslin
Reagan........"He had orange hair.

He did?

I would think the left wing moon bats in their zeal to denigrate the greatest President in the last century, I would have seen a picture of him with orange hair.

38 posted on 05/07/2006 7:44:49 AM PDT by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: Kaslin

Yes! Delusional and wishful thinking.


39 posted on 05/07/2006 7:45:38 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: mewzilla
 
 

40 posted on 05/07/2006 7:46:02 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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