[Mustang]

The notion of the Hildebeast seeking her return to the White House seems to many a future re-reel & replay of the final moments from the "Manchurian Candidate"...at least Angela Lansbury's character sat & fell, next to her man.

What's next..."Et Tu, Brutus Slickus Willie"...do these bores have no shame?...I know, silly question.

Mustang sends from "Malpaso News"

[paulklenk]

"She couldn't run until 2012. She'd be 65 years old and would have been out of office for 12 years. It's kind of hard at that point to keep the bloom on the rose and be able to run."

What bloom? What rose? A more appropriate metaphor might be, to "keep the stink in the stinkweed."

[areafiftyone]

This is exactly what I have been saying all along. The Clintons want the field wide open when the Beast runs in 2008!

[Consort]

She's ready to hit the campaign trail anytime Bush gets into serious trouble.

[liberalnot]

clinton says that the country needs to allow a president to run again because 20 years later the same problems might occur.

a lewinsky with a box of cigars?

[gumbo]

I don't think this is far-fetched.

Generally, the second terms of even popular presidents have not been as successful as the first.

Think of Ronald Reagan's second term: the Democrats were more effective in thwarting him, and also had time to scrounge up a scandal ("Iran-Contra"), which, however, phoney, did do some damage to Reagan and the Republican Party.

So a less effective Bush second term would tee up the ball nicely for the Dems. (Not that I think Hillary has a chance of a snowball in h*ll of being elected.)

[Joy Angela]

Clinton Bashing Bump

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Hillary wants another 9/11 at the right momement before the RAT convention. She thinks that will make her the inevitable candidate because she has threaded the needle and not taken a radical anti-military stand. She also thinks that this will make GW vulnerable in the election and she can demogogue the issue with the help of 95% of the media. I go further. I would not be surprised if the Clinton mafia may actually try to foster another 9/11 using deep contacts with Al Qaeda. Sound paranoid/insane? My principle is that the Clintons are capable of anything in their demonic pursuit of power.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

DICK MORRIS

[Tribune7]

The Clintons are going to destroy the Democratic Party. Maybe there is a good side to them.

[NeoCaveman]

153 comments without one reference to Dick Morris as "the toe-sucker" Freepers are getting too mellow.

[petitfour]

This DMorris theory sounds about right to me, too. I guess the Clintons are counting on good health among other things for the next few years.

[HamiltonJay]

haha... Dems tied their ship to this mound of crap in 1992, and its going to keep dragging them down until at least 2020

[OrioleFan]

Reading the thread about who the Republican candidates are in 2008, I believe that it might be beneficial to have someone other than Cheney on the 2004 ticket, so there will be someone waiting in line to kick her butt good. The second 4 years should highlight the Vice President to get the name recognition.

[HatSteel]

The problem with this theory is 2006. In 2006 Hillary must decide to run for her Senate seat or to step down.

There is no doubt in my mind that she will not have a cakewalk if she runs for that seat in 2006. GWBush's numbers are up in NY, and GW's team has an uncanny knack for picking viable candidates in senatorial races. The entire republican party will probably BEG Rudy Guiliani to wait until 2006 for his Senate run.

I'd say it's 3:1 that she will lose if Guiliani is her opponent.

If she loses in NY, I don't think she can recover by the time 2008 rolls around. Anything Guiliani uses against her will be used against her again in the primaries by her democratic opponents.

What if she steps down in 2006 and decides to focus on running for the presidency? This might be her better option, but it takes her out of the limelight and enables other democrats to maneuver against her from their own offices. Despite popular legend, she is not loved by all wings of her party. Other centers of interest surrounding other politicians would brutalize her in the outyears. It's questionable if she could recover.

I'm putting my money on this logic. She will continue to undermine the current candidates as often as possible so that there will be a depression in the party about the viability of the current crop of 04 candidates. That will lead to her base crying for her to rescue the situation. The party's depression over the weakness of the other candidates will lessen their resolve to oppose her ascension. She will enter the field to "save" the party a "terrible embarrassment."

The real chink in this armor is the viability of any of the other candidates. If one of them actually does turn out to be a diamond in the rough, especially at debate time, then this strategy will be difficult to bring to fruition.

I'm betting on Joe Lieberman and on whichever candidate seems to be getting "picked on" the most for foibles rather than democratic party substance. At this point, that's either Kerry or Edwards.