Sen. Hillary Clinton gives her acceptance speech after the New York State Democratic Convention endorsed her re-election last week. Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters file
Posted on 06/07/2006 6:58:31 PM PDT by Libloather
Some rank-and-file Democrats fear Clinton bid
Activists express doubts about whether senator should be party’s nominee
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 7:29 a.m. PT June 7, 2006
Sen. Hillary Clinton gives her acceptance speech after the New York State Democratic Convention endorsed her re-election last week. Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters file
WASHINGTON - Public opinion polls, as well as inside-the-Beltway punditry, suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton is the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
A Gallup Poll in February found that 39 percent of self-described Democrats and Democratic “leaners” would be most likely to support Clinton for the 2008 nomination. The next closest Democrat was 2004 nominee Sen. John Kerry with 15 percent.
But recent interviews with dozens of active Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that hold the first caucus and primary of 2008, reveal that many party members who vote in those early contests don’t want Clinton as their nominee.
These politically active Democrats voice a sense of resignation, verging on fatalism, about a Clinton run for the nomination.
“I hope she won’t run, and I don’t know whether I’d support her,” said Jean Lloyd-Jones, a veteran Democrat from Iowa City, Iowa who was the party’s unsuccessful Senate nominee in 1992.
During the 1992 campaign Lloyd-Jones spent a day and half with Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al and Tipper Gore in Iowa on their now-famous bus tour.
Hope she stays in the Senate
“I think she should stay in the Senate a bit longer,” said Lloyd-Jones, who chipped in $1,000 to Clinton’s 2006 Senate re-election fund. “I don’t think this is the time for her to run (for president). I don’t quite understand why she is such a polarizing figure, but she is.”
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Well, she is sucking all the money out of the room. She'll run no matter what...
What's with all the drive by media hits against Mrs. Clinton?
You'd think she was a Republican.
Jean, you ignorant person, you just gave a grand to her presidental race that you don't want her to run.
Drive by media wants algore as the nominee! LOL
Clue Wagon! Paging Clue Wagon! Delivery on aisle six!
Well, she is sucking all the money out of the room. She'll run no matter what
Caption from Drudgereport:
Ann Coulter responds to Hillary once again going bonkers:
(caps from the original)
'BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING 'MEAN' TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY'S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.'
That was probably their deal - Hillary ignores everything Bill does to/with other women. In exchange, she gets coattails - for her own devices.
Pity the fool who gets between Hillary and the Dem nomination for 08.
She has the dollars, the machine, the name recognition, the determination. She isn't going to let anyone stand in her way.
Bank on it.
Caption from Drudgereport:
Ann Coulter responds to Hillary once again going bonkers:
(caps from the original)
'BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING 'MEAN' TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY'S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.'
That was probably their deal - Hillary ignores everything Bill does to/with other women. In exchange, she gets coattails - for her own devices.
Caption from Drudgereport:
Ann Coulter responds to Hillary once again going bonkers:
(caps from the original)
'BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING 'MEAN' TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY'S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.'
That was probably their deal - Hillary ignores everything Bill does to/with other women. In exchange, she gets coattails - for her own devices.
and.... she will roll over whoever runs in the GOP like a tank.
(oops, sorry)
1. She will. 2. You will.
This has been set in concrete for at least six years. She Who Must Not Be Named owns the real Democratic party machinery and has since whatsisname was in office. She has fat cat funding in her pocket. She owns the media. She will run as New York's favorite daughter and God help them, they'll suck it up hook, line and sinker. And as New York goes, so goes the Democratic party, which goes a very long way to explain why she ended up there in the first place.
Her campaign will be a personality cult, and her constituents tribal. They will vote for her whether they like her or not because they don't like us.
The liberals are inevitably their own worst enemies.
I support Hillary!
*snort*
I'd like to see Barack Obama run and give her some competition.
Have you ever seen (video or real life) what sharks do when one of their buddies gets even the tiniest wound? The wounded shark moves to the top of their menu and stays there until there are no pieces left to eat.
It ain't pretty.
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