“Let me tell you how it’s gonna be...”
“She is currently the single most powerful political person in the country,” [Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein] said. “The day she announces for president, she gives that up.”
Let’s take Mr. Chairman’s assertions one a time.
A. Probably. She’s certainly on the short list.
B. In the immortal words of Ira Gershwin, it ain’t necessarily so.
“She is currently the single most powerful political person in the country,” [Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein] said. “The day she announces for president, she gives that up.”
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How totally wrong this guy is. WHEN she announces her candidacy, she will have the media’s total attention. They will fall on her every word. She will coalesce the Republican Party, conservatives, moderates, and Reagan democrats as no one else could. The media will stay focused on her until they believe they have destroyed her. They won’t succeed but will keep trying.
Obama will not have achieved all of the “transformation” he wants in one term and will run again. Running is what he is good at, governing is not. Any effort by Hillary to wrest the nomination away from him would destroy the Dem coalition and ensure their defeat in 2012. The only way that Hillary runs is if Obama decides that he can’t win again and doesn’t run. She could promise to appoint him to the Supreme Court where he could finish out his dream for Amerika.
So a 2012 match-up between Obama and Palin is likely and in 2012 Obama will have full ownership of his economy and foreign policy.