Aren't they all second stringers?
Posted on 09/16/2011 12:33:18 AM PDT by bronxville
2. Mark Warner. 3. Cuomo. 4. Dean. 5. Durbin. 6. Rahm. 7. Kerry. 8. Gore. 9. Matt Damon. 10. Kanye West. 11. Beebe. 12. Beshear. 13. Kaine. 14. Madeleine Halfbright. 15. Gov. Moonbeam.
Can’t imagine O losing a primary, but would luv to see a bruising fight. We could sure use it...
It’s Hillary. There are no second stringers. The only reason she won’t challenge is if someone like Soros has the goods on her and Bubba.
No. He’s tainted goods.
He’s a brilliant man and there is definitely a place for him in a Republican Administration, but he does not have the moral credibility to be a Republican nominee for President.
We’re not Democrats. Character counts. Some things just do not pass the smell test.
He might have been president, if his personal life wasn’t so disasterous.
He should go back into the Senate, that is where he belongs.
Rush is into reality...I’m still at the wishing atage.
Positivley NO.
Aren't they all second stringers?
What 'bugs' me about Republican politicians is they almost always fall for the liberal dogma that demands compromise from us but never for them. It still stings that GWBush had to qualify his conservatism as compassionate and the liberals chew him up and spit him out.
chew = chewed
Somethings going on within the real power - not Zero. The media have been given permission to report on the Solyndra story and most likely they’ll be hounding the other green deals. Yet, Fast and Furious is a much bigger story for them, and for us the deaths involved, but they don’t touch it. Who doesn’t want it investigated aside from Holder and Zero? And why? There’s lots of money in the drug business going back to the Brits - it kept them in power for many decades. One wonders who runs it today.
lol That has to be one of her worst pics.
I get it. Newt is a big NO - but....:)
Hard to see how a serious primary challenge could arise against Obama because of the risk of angering and alienating Black Dems, the most loyal voting bloc in the party. The Dems are going to be stuck with Obama as the nominee unless he pulls an LBJ.
If he does get back into politics, he’s gotta go back in the Senate. He was instrumental in controlling spending back in the 90’s and he will be again.
Plus, he scares the Dems like nothing else.
There is one consideration which is that she is coming of a certain age which means that she is running out of time and she could come to the conclusion that it is now or never. There is one scenario which might favor her attempting to unhorse Obama. It would be a replay of the Gene McCarthy run at Lyndon Johnson in nineteen sixty-eight which paved the way for Bobby Kennedy. It is even conceivable that Hillary would arrange for a stalking horse to make the run and demonstrate that Obama can be toppled just as McCarthy demonstrated LBJ's vulnerability to Kennedy.
The problem for Hillary is very difficult. In nineteen sixty-eight the party was already riven on the issue of the Vietnam war and so the Challenger could call the policy of the administration into question on an issue which did not necessarily divide the party itself at its core but on a policy which a Democrat could choose to go either way. Moreover, the party had very little stake emotionally in the person of Lyndon Johnson. Their emotional ties were to a martyred John F. Kennedy and, by extension, to his brother, Bobby.
The Democrat party has a personal commitment to Obama as the first black president. They, in effect, would have to repudiate what they regard to be a history making triumph. Worse, anyone who runs against Obama will break apart the Democrat party as Gene McCarthy did not do. I do not mean that he did not secure votes, I mean that he did not crash the fundamental underpinning of the party. A run against Obama would destroy the solidarity of the party because it would never bring the biggest single voting bloc, African-Americans, to desert Obama.
The entire modern rationalization for the existence of the Democrat party is to claim that Republicans are racists and they are not. To run against Obama is to repudiate that rationalization. Obama will certainly play the race card against any Challenger and Hillary is fully aware of this from her experience in 2008. She will have to know that even if she wins the primary, she will not have the active support of African-Americans and without that support on election day she cannot win. She knows they will stay home. Not only is the fundamental rationalization of the Democrat party based on race but its electability depends on a 90% African-American vote.
This is not to say that there will not be someone coming off the "moderate" wing of the Democrat party to run against Obama out of desperation.
There is also, however, the Soros factor to consider. If Soros does not give the green light for a challenge to Obama, there is no money flow because Soros has a chokehold on the Democrat pipeline. Any Challenger would have to know that he will fail and that he will be excommunicated from the party and foreclosed from the source of funds.
On the other hand, if Soros decides to dump Obama, the financial way is clear and much of the propaganda apparatus of the Democrat party which is controlled by Soros would be neutralized. Nevertheless, a primary candidate who enjoys Soros' support must confront the intransigence of the African-American bloc and the power of the incumbent.
The last scenario which comes to mind is a surprise announcement by Barack Obama modeled after LBJ in which he shocks the country and says that he will not run. Could Soros demand this and get it? All bets are then off. If one thinks back to 1968, the broken Democrat party lost but by a very narrow margin. If Kennedy had survived and gotten the nomination, one can hardly be confident what the out come would have been.
Can Hillary become Bobby Kennedy?
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