channeling in: "She doesn't do requests."
Posted on 09/08/2008 6:40:40 PM PDT by SJackson
HILLARY Clinton may be the most obvious choice to throw into the ring against the new darling of American politics, Sarah Palin, but the failed Democratic presidential candidate is refusing the job.
"We're not going to be anybody's attack dog against Sarah Palin," a Clinton insider said yesterday.
It's an extraordinary act of hubris from a woman whose success in exposing Barack Obama's weakness in working-class Democratic states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana may have been the reason that John McCain chose a gun-toting, God-loving mother of five as his running mate.
Although she is 60 and unlikely to have another shot at the White House, Clinton is apparently concerned that she would appear ungenerous to the Republicans' first female vice-presidential candidate if she were to go after her.
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Still laughing at that one. She's got several shots comin, 12, 16, 2020 she'll be McCain's age. The Clintons are with us forever.
She knows damn well the slightest misstep and she will be toast in NY.
No one here is rowing her boat any more.
She says she won’t do it, but you watch... She’ll do it, and claim she’s not.
Palin is lookin’ for trophy scalps. H!’s whole head would look good mounted on the wall of the family room.
Not surprising. Why would Hillary!, the person who most benefits from an Obama loss, help him?
Hillary wants nothing more than to watch Barack Obama get beat so soundly, he never comes back. No way will she carry his water and cross herself off the list for 2012.
If Barack wins, he will neutralize her with a nomination to the Supreme Court to replace Ginsburg or Stevens.
Always good to see the Aussie take on the campaigning.
Whatever she does, it will be the result of a fine political calculation.
"If I join the ticket, will it win?"
If the answer is "No" -- which is the right answer -- she won't join the ticket. Instead, she'll make some token appearances, mouth the right words...and watch Obama go down in flames.
Then, she'll start laying plans for 2012.
Are there no editors left? Even when you break this statement down to: “It's an...act of hubris from a woman...who may have been the reason” it makes no sense.
Oh, and of course the Clintons aren't going to help Obama. They want him to lose so that she can run again in 2012.
channeling in: "She doesn't do requests."
She will run in 2012, so why tarnish her image attaching herself to a losing campaign? A campaign which didn’t put her in the VP slot even though she was received the 2nd highest number of votes in primary history.
I think Hillary has enough political sense to know that attacking Palin will backfire on whoever does it. And she wants to remain viable for 2012.
The Dims are saying Obammie is not a muslim. If that’s true, why is he sending women (Clinton, Napolitano and Sebelius) out to do his fighting for him?
I know many of the inmates at DU were gulible enough to believe HRC would come in riding to the rescue. I wonder how they took the news?
Hillary is not stupid....she knows a sinking ship when she sees one.
Hillary is not stupid....she knows a sinking ship when she sees one.
HRC will hold off the hatchet attacks until November 5, or perhaps late night on November 4.
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