Posted on 04/28/2008 2:49:14 PM PDT by LdSentinal
At least one source is saying people in the camp of Hillary Clinton (D-NY) are quietly floating the notion that if the road to the Democratic nomination for president comes to an end in Denver, that may not necessarily mean the end of the road in her pursuit of the White House. Is an independent candidacy a possibility?
The speculation comes from U.S. Politics Today. It says, “At the moment, a Clinton independent candidacy is viewed as an idle threat, designed to pressure superdelegates with a party disaster if they don't nominate Clinton. But when you look at the electoral college calculus, an independent run could represent a realistic path to the White House for Clinton.”
The thinking is that Bill Clinton made it into the White House with only 43% of the vote against a crippled Bush 41, who picked up only 38% of the popular vote. The thinking is that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain (R-AZ) is carrying so much baggage that Hillary Clinton could still come out on top in a three-way race.
If true, all the more reason to shut down operation chaos.
It does not matter which one of these candidates hurts the other. We are doomed either way.
With the primaries all but over, can she even appear on state ballots in the general at this point? Or would she have to run as a write-in?
This must be the new front in Operation Chaos. Woo-hoo!
I beg to differ. Hillary will be too ugly to run in 2012. Age isn't being very kind to her. It's now or never.
I can hold my nose and say I’d prefer McCain in the White House over those two dimmocrats running.
So, if Hitlery goes independent, let’s all back her.
Maybe it’ll be enough to keep both her and the Ché Guevara fan outta the White House.
I’d say pure blackmail. She’ll back off...but at a price. It’d need to be good, too. Supreme Court nomination perhaps? Or maybe the Vice Presidency, which she has already stated she wouldn’t accept, and we know she never lies...
The last thing Hillary Clinton would ever do is triangulate.
Won’t happen,
She’d lose the vast support of the democrat party.
While many of us don’t care for the two party system it is what we have and the Clintons won’t destroy the party they think they created.
I’d like two or three more parties.
Tie things up so nothing ever gets done and these politico turds quit spending my MONEY.
Watch out! If She steals the nomination from Bama, the big mac may ask him to be his VP.
She has to "toe the line" if she wants to be considered a "player" either now or in '12.
And methinks she's out after this round if she loses to the affirmative action candidate with a funny sounding name.
Would she remain a democratic senator if she ran as an independent?
What if...she, or Obama, decided sometime in June that they didn't have a shot (super delegates defecting, etc), and announced an independent candidacy? Neither would necessarily have to wait for the convention.
She is not that stupid.
Is Clinton in for the really long haul? (No Dem nomination, she will run as an independent)
Alan Keyes on short list as John McCain VP
What a day!
Let me stand up and say I believe if Hillary ran as an independent against Obama and McCain, she’d probably win (providing she could get on all the ballots).
Utterly absurd. She has no money, for heaven's sake... and (as others here have already pointed out, repeately) she could not conceivably get herself listed on enough state ballots, at this late stage of the game, to make such a challenge even remotely credible, in any event.
Ay yi yi.
Hillary has probably already scheduled the plastic surgery for after the Fall elections, regardless the outcome. I’m looking forward to that Phyllis Diller ‘look’.
The Demoncrat "party" in Denver.......will decide that.
It's not absurd to think it won't..............
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