[cripplecreek]

If she wants to run she’ll run. Beyond that it’s foolhardy to tie oneself so closely to a “candidate” more than 4 years out. You just eliminate choices before there are any choices to choose from.

Anybody know when the last “drafted” candidate won the white house?

[2ndDivisionVet]

President Eisenhower, IIRC.

[lewisglad]

Ike in 1952?

[unspun]

Anybody know when the last “drafted” candidate won the white house?

Well, Obama isn't there... quite... yet.

[SolidWood]

This man...

[FrankR]

"If she wants to run she’ll run. Beyond that it’s foolhardy to tie oneself so closely to a “candidate” more than 4 years out. You just eliminate choices before there are any choices to choose from. "

Damn right! I say leave the woman alone for a while. After what she has been, as is, going through, she needs a long, quiet period of pondering and meditation on that decision.

If she wants to run, she'll run. If she doesn't, just don't call John McCain and we'll go with the best candidate we can find and run.

It's no secret that we all adore her, and that she has what it takes to lead and solidify the party...but, let her take a breath or two first.

[painter]

Ike

[Joe Boucher]

I’ll take hillary in a laugher.

[ellery]

If she wants to run she’ll run. Beyond that it’s foolhardy to tie oneself so closely to a “candidate” more than 4 years out. You just eliminate choices before there are any choices to choose from.

Well said. We may have a number of interesting candidates in 2012, including Palin, Pence, Sanford and others. But first, the primaries proved that we have to discuss what principles, if any, the GOP stands for. And we have to win back Congress in 2010.