Posted on 11/21/2011 9:15:26 AM PST by MissesBush
President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday.
Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.
“He should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president's accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,”Caddell and Schoen wrote.
Caddell, who worked as a pollster for President Jimmy Carter, and Schoen, who was a pollster for President Bill Clinton, argue that Obama will inevitably have to run a negative campaign in order to win reelection, the negative consequences of which will make it difficult for him to govern effectively.
“One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be ‘guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it.’ The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline,” they write.
Caddell and Schoen say they write as “patriots and Democrats” who are concerned for their country, and they do not expect to play a direct role in any possible Clinton campaign.
This is not the first time Caddell and Schoen have made this argument. They wrote in November 2010 in The Washington Post that they “do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed.”
I had NO idea he was such a racist...
; - )
Grant did a poor job in his first term but was re-elected because his opponent (Horace Greeley) was unelectable. Not that Obama has done anything in his life to compare to Grant's achievement before being elected President.
Also, it's a TWO step coup..dump Obama, and put in Clinton...hey, maybe the Democrats should have a voice in choosing thier candidate?
There is not a force on earth strong enough, no principle compelling enough to cause a leftist to give up a position of power.
They’re mostly listing their resumes for a Hillary 2012 campaign...although it’s just as likely Mittens would hire them...
Yes, Caddell is a lib, but he’s not an over-the-top, government is end-all, be-all type.
Although, nominating Hillary could be worse, although she’d likely be forced to work with a Repub House and Senate.
None of the GOP candidates are unelectable except Ron Paul.
RUN BARACK RUN!
put your message out there and run!
Obama’s ego would never allow him to do that.
Won’t happen. After her stint as SOS is over. She’s done. Lost too much personal fortune last time around.
She wouldn’t be a bit better at all.
Beat me to it. I was going to say, the number of educated people in this country who have no clue what a Malignant Narcissist is, is staggering.
Besides all that, SOME of us have NOT forgotten about WACO. Ya know?
The only way Obama would willingly decline to run for another term would be if he were given a “better offer” - something like Secretary General of the U.N. That way, it would be considered a “step up” (in his mind), allowing him to save face. Unless the Dems can somehow engineer something like this, they are stuck with him for 2012.
Is that Little Richard?
Does anyone here seriously think The One and his spouse want to give up four more years of vacations?
Translation. We have kept Hillary in the freeze long enough. People should have forgotten her crookedness and lies.
The only place Hillary and also her husband rapist, Bill, should be are in jail cells.
The people that can accomplish this will be heroes to the world.
Romney is unelectable.
Run, Obama, run!
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