The problem is that doing it is a sign of great weakness in the candidate for POTUS. When they dumped Eagleton it was because he had been nuts and electro shocked out of it. That had nothing to do with McGovern. If they Eagleton Slow Joe it will highlight the very lightweight top of the ticket. They’d probably win, but what good would that do Hillary. Would she slowly vegetate while the haloed one ran the country?A loss after a wooing to join the ticket, in private of course, sets her up for the contest with Saraccuda in 2012.Hillary’s ego tells her she’ll win. No, she sits this one out. The Dems dance with the ones that brung them, as Al McGuire always said.
Clinton would be stupid to do. It would make her look weak
to cave in to them after the way they treated her and she
would forever be associated with Obama , the biggest loser
since ... Dukakis. She has her eyes on 2012.
“The problem is that doing it is a sign of great weakness in the candidate for POTUS. When they dumped Eagleton it was because he had been nuts and electro shocked out of it. That had nothing to do with McGovern. If they Eagleton Slow Joe it will highlight the very lightweight top of the ticket. They’d probably win, but what good would that do Hillary. Would she slowly vegetate while the haloed one ran the country?A loss after a wooing to join the ticket, in private of course, sets her up for the contest with Saraccuda in 2012.Hillary’s ego tells her she’ll win. No, she sits this one out. The Dems dance with the ones that brung them, as Al McGuire always said.”
Your logic is sound. But I think she won’t be able to resist the temptation to come in and save the ticket, right now. Her ego will be torn. It’s incredibly hard to walk away from the spotlight for these people, even in a calculated way. And if she comes in as the VP candidate, and they lose anyway, I don’t know that she’s any worse off for 2012 than if she sits out. In fact, I’m sure the dem numbers will improve with her on the ticket, and she can point to that as an indicator of what might have been if she had been the nominee.
If Obama keeps going the way he has been since the conventions, the Democrats may be less interested in the “Eagleton option” and more interested in the “Toricelli option”.