Posted on 05/13/2006 7:46:28 PM PDT by ncountylee
There is a rapidly congealing consensus about Hillary Clinton among Democrats. The first is that it’s hard to see how she can be stopped from becoming the party’s nominee for president in 2008. The second is that nobody really wants her to be the nominee. If this sounds familiar, it is. The Democrats had exactly the same feelings about their last two nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry. They both lost, of course, although there will always be an asterisk next to the name Gore on that one.
Most Democrats I know also fear that, at an unusually propitious time for their party, Hillary could lose the White House for them again as well. In almost every straw poll she loses big to potential rivals such as John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. About a third of the country already strongly disapproves of her. Unlike McCain and Giuliani, her unfavourable ratings actually beat out her favourable ones. And that’s after five years of very careful and very good PR.
The inevitability argument for Hillary is a strong one. In some ways she is now following George W Bush’s tack in 2000. She has amassed way more money than any of her rivals — more than $40m at the last count — and has a nepotistic connection to the last president in her own party. Her name recognition is through the roof. She lives in that rare pantheon of women whose global reach overwhelms the need for any surname: Diana, Oprah, Madonna, Condi, Hillary. In the latest polls of Democrats, Hillary is favoured by 38% of potential primary voters. Kerry is second with 14%.
Chuck Todd, editor of Washington’s Hotline put her position thus: “Frankly, to call her an 800lb gorilla would be underselling her.”
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If the Republicans run either McCain or Giuliani, Hillary will retake the White House.
Republicans need to run Republicans - not retooled RATs.
Another trainwreck for the Democrats.
Not another 50/50 split vote
Witch.
I’m not concerned about Hillary running—I’m confident she’ll lose. But I am worried about the death and destruction she could perpetrate in her post-defeat fury.
I fully expect the Republicans to decline to contest the 2008 election. No self-respecting person wants to put him/her-self through the trial, tribulation, and torment of George Bush's job. He's the most hated man on earth and the only guy with the backbone to ensure the freedom of a nation replete with ungrateful slobs who undermine his every move against our mortal enemies and blame him for every petty or contrived calamity that befalls us.
I predict the nomination will fall to either Romney or Allen, the nominee being the personage the base will be the least uncomfortable with ...
I don't know about that. By 2008 there is a good chance that voters will be fed up with the current leadership. Nostalgia for the 1990s will be strong. Hillary will run with Bill at her side every step of the way and outside of the confines of Free Republic, Bill Clinton remains a very well-liked figure.
Hillary only needs to run a "2 for the price of 1" ticket (remember 1992?) and put forth the image that a vote for her is a de facto vote for a 3rd term for her husband. If Bill Clinton could run again in 2008, he would win in a landslide.
Hillary is the best, actually the only, chance the Republicans have to retain the White House.
Run, drive, fly to the polls if this beast decides to run, folks.
The only reason anybody would want to go back to the 90s is for the economy, and today's economy is stronger than the 90s.
Hillary is despised, and, if she's fooling nobody now, she won't be able to fool anybody then.
She's not much of a speaker. Have you noticed that?
Actually, Romney-Allen or Allen-Romney would make a fine ticket.
Similar sounding. Starts with a B.
What Gingrich's mother said.
And if for once the Republicans do their job right and give the country a refresher course on all her crimes,then she may not only be despised but reviled.
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