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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: RonaldSmythe
My point is that votes are irrelevant. The Electoral College chooses the President, and they're bought and paid for already.
41 posted on 08/27/2003 2:12:29 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"Hillary Clinton looking grandmotherly?"

When I read that I got a flash back to both of my grandmothers' and.....THERE AIN'T NO DAMNED WAY!!!!!

Advise to Chelsey: Don't have kids, your mom my just hurt them with a flying ashtray, or pull a Vince Foster if they give her any lip.

42 posted on 08/27/2003 2:14:31 PM PDT by timydnuc (FR)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Personally, I think a 65 year old Hildebeast has the best chance of winning. At that age her already matronly looks might be grandmotherly as opposed to what they are now.

Her outsides keeps conforming to or affirming her insides...(soul) by 65 I shudder to think... She will need a Bruce Willis character (Death Becomes Her) to keep up with the bondo application

43 posted on 08/27/2003 2:16:42 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: kattracks
Figures...the closer Dean gets...the more her Highness steps into the limelight
44 posted on 08/27/2003 2:18:33 PM PDT by smiley
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Personally, I think a 65 year old Hildebeast has the best chance of winning. At that age her already matronly looks might be grandmotherly as opposed to what they are now.

With all of the hatred that's been building up in those 65 years, the Bitch will look like Helen Thomas. And when she gets all worked up in a campaign speech, she'll be shaking like Janet Reno. Geeze, what an unbearble sight to behold in 8-9 years. It'd be a coin-toss between seeing the Bitch versus Yassir Arafat. Sorta makes ya itch just thinking about it.

45 posted on 08/27/2003 2:21:46 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Personally, I think a 65 year old Hildebeast has the best chance of winning. At that age her already matronly looks might be grandmotherly as opposed to what they are now.

With all of the hatred that's been building up in those 65 years, the Bitch will look like Helen Thomas. And when she gets all worked up in a campaign speech, she'll be shaking like Janet Reno. Geeze, what an unbearble sight to behold in 8-9 years. It'd be a coin-toss between seeing the Bitch versus Yassir Arafat. Sorta makes ya itch just thinking about it.

46 posted on 08/27/2003 2:22:53 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Republic
I will devote every spare moment I have to defeating her...

And that's the fly in the Hillary-For-Fuehrer ointment. There are large numbers of us who absolutely detest her, and who'd go many, many extra miles to insure her defeat. There's no way I'd get that exercised about Deane, or Kerry or any other 'rat nominee.

But Smellary is the embodiment of the evil, corrupt politician. As the pundits say, "She has high negatives." The depth of those "negatives" is virtually infinite.

47 posted on 08/27/2003 2:24:46 PM PDT by jimt
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To: kattracks
Won't the new Jennifer Flowers lawsuit against Carville, Stephanopoulos and Hillary get in her way of running a Presidential campaign in 2004?

The lawsuit's claims include defamation, false light and conspiracy.

Good Platform!

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Jul-23-Wed-2003/news/21787501.html
48 posted on 08/27/2003 2:25:26 PM PDT by Republican Red
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To: warchild9
We'll never have to look at another Clinton! Oh, the joy!

Don't bet on it. Stainman is out of office and his ugly mug keeps showing up, along with Totem Pole Gore. Even Carter can't keep his mouth shut and his puss back on his flippin peanut farm.

49 posted on 08/27/2003 2:25:38 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
>Personally, I think a 65 year old Hildebeast has the best chance of winning. At that age her already matronly looks


50 posted on 08/27/2003 2:31:56 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: MinuteGal
(P.S....what man would ever want to violate her in any other way?)

No man would. Ergo, it seems her shoes are a little light.

51 posted on 08/27/2003 2:32:21 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: warchild9
Forget the fact that they're "bought and paid for already" (a paranoid and cynical notion I reject), but the Electoral College ensures that Hillary will never be president. Hillary would take NY, Ill, and CA for sure. After that, it starts to get kind of sketchy.

Do you think she would win a single Southern state? She'd lost every damn one of them, including Texas -- the biggie. She'd lose the entire Mountain region and much of the Midwest. What people don't realize is that while Hillary is extremely popular in the big media centers -- New York, Left Coast, Washington -- she is about as popular as head lice in "flyover country."

Gore was able to snag the entire Northeast save N.H., Ill, and the entire left coast. He won three of his states -- Wisconsin, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon by very slim margins. Hillary would be blown away in those places by Bush. It would be a landslide -- AND Hillary would have to work hard to get Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan while Bush could ignore most of the country.

52 posted on 08/27/2003 2:37:15 PM PDT by seamus
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To: ravingnutter
You just gave me a ray of hope on an otherwise bleak horizon! Thanks!
53 posted on 08/27/2003 2:39:43 PM PDT by Lucky2 (I hope some day I see Hillary and Bill in handcuffs attached to a big burly prison guard.)
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To: Lucky2
I keep saying that if she runs, I will change my party to Democrat so that I could vote in the Democrat primaries to vote for WHOEVER her challenger is (kind of like what the GOP voters did in Georgia to boot out Cynthia McKinney for the less radical lady judge that thankfully won). Then of course, I'd change back to a Pubbie after the election. We cannot let this witch even win the primaries!!!!
54 posted on 08/27/2003 2:39:46 PM PDT by ILuvW
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To: woodyinscc
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.

You're right .. he wants it and he wants it bad ... This could be fun after all .. *L*

55 posted on 08/27/2003 2:39:51 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: ILuvW
That's a good idea, ARE YOU LISTENING FREEPERS!
56 posted on 08/27/2003 2:40:42 PM PDT by Lucky2 (I hope some day I see Hillary and Bill in handcuffs attached to a big burly prison guard.)
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To: warchild9
Hitlery will set the all-time, never to be broken, record for NEGATIVE VOTER TURNOUT!

Sleep easy my friends...
57 posted on 08/27/2003 2:40:49 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: pabianice
I don't think the Goauld would take her.. They have taste. Beside they pick the babes...
58 posted on 08/27/2003 2:43:36 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: ILuvW
Georgia has open primaries. We must choose if we want a democrat or republican ballot at the door. We don't need to switch party identification. In fact, now I think about it, Georgians never officially declare an affiliation.
59 posted on 08/27/2003 2:44:51 PM PDT by Republican Red
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To: kattracks
What she meant to say is now that the liberal media is in full campaign mode, filling the airwaves with lies, its dark enough for her to try and finish the job her husband could not, destroying America.
60 posted on 08/27/2003 2:48:56 PM PDT by Russell Scott (Without massive intervention from Heaven, America doesn't have a prayer.)
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