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Reeves: Hillary Will Decide Presidential Plans Within Days
NewsMax.com ^ | 8/27/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 08/27/2003 1:10:13 PM PDT by kattracks

Sen. Hillary Clinton is about to decide her presidential plans, says columnist and author Richard Reeves.

The race for the Democrats' 2004 presidential nomination "has changed totally in the past few weeks," Reeves wrote Tuesday. "At the beginning of the summer, Hillary could comfortably deny having national presidential ambitions because the comfortable conventional wisdom was that it didn't really matter who the Democratic candidate would be, because President Bush had a lock on re-election. (I'm sure that the thought has never crossed her mind that it would be better for her if Bush won in 2004, leaving her a clear field in 2008.)

"But now! With Bush looking more vulnerable because there are not enough jobs at home and not enough peace abroad, Sen. Clinton has to check some numbers. If a Democrat, say Kerry, defeats Bush next November and then runs for re-election in 2008, then her next chance to run would probably be in 2012, when she will be 65 years old. And who knows what the world will look like then?" Or what Hillary will look like.

Reeves says that "Hillary and her advisers, including her husband the ex-president, her money men and pollsters, will meet shortly after Labor Day - Sept. 6, I hear - to discuss whether or not she should go for it. It is a decision that has to be made earlier rather than later because of November and December filing deadlines for the early primary elections that will almost certainly (and very quickly) identify the 2004 Democratic nominee.

"The contest, again almost certainly, will be over by March 2 at the latest, and possibly as early as the end of January. California, New York, Texas, Ohio and eight smaller states will hold primary elections on Super-Super Tuesday that second day of March. There is even a chance that if the same candidate, say Kerry, could win the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 19 and the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 27, he could win early enough to cut off the financial and journalistic oxygen of other Democratic runners. If Hillary decides to do it - you get to be president only by running for it - she will have to meet filing deadlines by announcing her candidacy before the end of this year."

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To: Cicero
The Chinese are ploughing cash into T-Bills, now, so the ultimate crash is being put off for a while. W has in excess of $300,000,000 in bribes, er, campaign contributions, and will crush any competition. It's a good time for HilClint to run.
21 posted on 08/27/2003 1:27:55 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: kattracks
No mention made of the Giuliani factor. If he runs for her senate seat in 2006 she will be cooked. Does she pass up 2004 and hope he does not run against her? I think he has a score to settle.

If the demoncraps win (not likely) or lose big (more likely) the 2008 contest will not not be as inviting. I think they will lose big and bury the demoncrap's unless Hillary get in instead of Dean.

I have always thought she would run in 2004 but the way I will know it is when she divorces Bill. He has too much baggage and sympathy will help her. Who would use Bill against her in a campaign if she is newly divorced?
22 posted on 08/27/2003 1:29:03 PM PDT by 1smallVoice (Clinton brought us Bush)
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To: kattracks
Oh, goody if she runs.

I want to see President Bush "violate her space" in a debate like she claimed Lazio did.

(P.S....what man would ever want to violate her in any other way?)

Leni

23 posted on 08/27/2003 1:29:12 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Lucky2
I just hope there is someone out there with enough guts to make known to the American public exactly what her crimes are

Not just talk about the crimes .. they also need to talk about her early days in politics and WHO she associated with .. like that lawyer she interned for when she first became a lawyer

Right now the only one that would discuss this is FNC and a few shows on MSNBC like Joe Scarsbough ... that is why you are seeing the attacks from her and her supporters about how unfair they are .. Hellary and her supporters are afraid that they will report the truth

24 posted on 08/27/2003 1:29:22 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: Mo1
My liberal friends (and I have some--it's part of not being a bot) absolutely wet their pants over the idea of HilClint running against W. So do I, but for different reasons.
25 posted on 08/27/2003 1:29:31 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: All
She'll run, she is "the best politician "money" can buy"!
26 posted on 08/27/2003 1:31:23 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Living History $1.00 at your local Dollar Store by December.)
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To: Lucky2
Yes, we have to do a lot of work - - nothing worth having is not without its cost - - TO THE DEFEAT OF THE DEMON HILDEBEAST!

Whatever it takes....money, time, working in the re-election campaign, going door to door, licking envelopes, making phone calls.....whatever it takes to defeat, humiliate that evil, evil woman.
27 posted on 08/27/2003 1:33:01 PM PDT by duckbutt (God Bless America.......Again!)
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To: kattracks
The Clinton’s did not foresee Dean’s popularity among the Dim voters. If Dean should win the nomination, the Clintons and their crooked friends are cooked. Dean will grab the party away from them. This means there will be no 2008 or 2012 for the witch, so she has to make her move now.
28 posted on 08/27/2003 1:39:53 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Mo1
If she runs .. and I think she will ... she won't announce it till the last moment

I hope she does run, it will be a battle royal in the primaries. Some will back out, but you can bet your bottom dollar that Dean will not. He is already on record that he favors the of axing of McAuliffe. Dean feels he is so close to the nomination he can taste it. It will be a battle for the control of the Democrat Party. Once Hillary starts her smear campaign, there will be no holds barred. Dean will not take it sitting down. Hillary could even wind up losing, and make lots and lots of people, very, very happy!!

29 posted on 08/27/2003 1:39:58 PM PDT by woodyinscc
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To: kattracks
She won't run. She knows her best try is 2008.
30 posted on 08/27/2003 1:42:55 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Bringbackthedraft
"Money can buy"? See my #21: $300,000,000. That's a helluva price!
31 posted on 08/27/2003 1:46:15 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: kattracks
Someday I'll learn to check for the source of the article before I start taking it seriously. In this case I wouldn't have gotten my hopes up so high.
32 posted on 08/27/2003 1:53:40 PM PDT by pawdoggie
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To: woodyinscc
"The contest, again almost certainly, will be over by March 2 at the latest, and possibly as early as the end of January. California, New York, Texas, Ohio and eight smaller states will hold primary elections on Super-Super Tuesday that second day of March.

I think that too many pundits are assuming that the primaries will determine the nominee but with a large number of candidates running it is possible that no one candidate would garner a majority. Therefore, the nominee could be selected at the convention with the superdelegates holding the balance of power.

33 posted on 08/27/2003 1:56:21 PM PDT by monocle
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To: GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Dean will grab the party away from them.

Dean was quoted a couple weeks ago as saying McAuliff should be removed as party chair, and that if he (Dean) won the nomination he'd "clean up" the Dem party. Wonder if that remark plus his rocketing up in the polls spurred this, since the Clintons can't afford to lose control of the party?

34 posted on 08/27/2003 1:57:28 PM PDT by justanotherfreeper
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To: kattracks
She already decided - she said she would serve out her Senate seat.

/sarcasm
35 posted on 08/27/2003 1:58:05 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: 1smallVoice

Didn't O'Neill dispose of her in the "Fire and Ice" episode? If her Gao'uld parasite jumped to another host, that will make her harder to find...

36 posted on 08/27/2003 2:02:48 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Lucky2
Hmmm....

FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu - June 2002

According to the most recent updates I have read, DoJ investigators have interviewed Peter Paul and told him that all his allegations check out. Mr. Paul is awaiting a DoJ assurance of leniency if he cooperates on this case. Not so sure she wants to open that can of worms, that might be Bush's trump card for the Clintons.

37 posted on 08/27/2003 2:03:03 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: lilylangtree
2008? By then Post-MS will have caught up with her. If one believes that when she gets mad, she gets ugly now, just wait.
38 posted on 08/27/2003 2:04:12 PM PDT by OESY
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To: mystery-ak
she has said several times that she wasn't running in 04

But, but, but...

She said she would serve out her full Senate term...

Any chance of believing that the Dims had any shred of honesty left in them evaporated when the Senate failed to remove
Bill Clinton for High Crimes and misdemeanors.

39 posted on 08/27/2003 2:04:29 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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