A corrupt demagogue who is an idiot but thinks she is a genius is arguably infinitely more dangerous than either tthe brilliant demagogue or the idiot demagogue who knows he's an idiot.
J. Bradford DeLong, clinton Administration veteran and BERKELEY PROFESSOR had it about right: "Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life." "My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president" J. Bradford DeLong
professor of economics at Berkeley
veteran of the Clinton Administration
I'm especially worried in light of the way Bush seems to be accumulating more governmental power... sure, it might help [marginally] fight the war on terrorism NOW, but when Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected in 2008 (and, assuming Bush wins the 2004 election, there is a very good chance that she WILL be elected), the results will be disastrous. It's one thing to have a bad president. It's another thing to have a bad president with Stalin-like power. All other negatives aside, the drawback of what Hillary could do to this country if she had the power FAR outweighs any strategic advantage we gain in the war on terror through a more centralized government.
Bush should concentrate not only on reducing governmental power, but on outright restricting it. For one thing, it's the conservative way. For another, it will help increase support for Bush in the 2004 election, as well as helping to decrease tension that could possibly threaten Republican control of the legislature in the meantime. And last, but not least, we must do everything we can to make sure that the b**** will be kept on a tight least from the moment she enters the White House.