Eleanor Clift: Hillary Clinton Like Ronald Reagan

NewsMax ^ | May 7, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[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.

[Right Wing Assault]

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!!!

[hgro]

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.

[vaudine]

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

[ScaniaBoy]

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?

[Right Wing Assault]

I guess I forgot how to spell "thought".

[BW2221]

Eleanor has to be the world's whiniest woman,

[Socratic]

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

[Popman]

LOTFLMAO

[Kaslin]

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

[DainBramage]

They both have hairy armpits.

[MadIvan]

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

Regards, Ivan

[Kaslin]

Nothing whatsoever

[cgbg]

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?"

[Kaslin]

I doubt it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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

[TheSpottedOwl]

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

[al baby]

Fact number 4 Reagan was an American

[Popman]

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.

[originalbuckeye]

Yes! Delusional and wishful thinking.

[george76]