Posted on 05/21/2006 8:31:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
ELMIRA, N.Y. -- As "New York, New York" so famously promises, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Hillary Rodham Clinton may soon put those lyrics to a presidential test.
With little question that she will win re-election to the Senate this fall, a larger question looms: If Clinton turned numbers of skeptical and sometimes openly hostile upstate New Yorkers significantly in her favor, could she pull off the same thing nationally in a 2008 run for the White House?
Seven years ago, when she began her Senate campaign, many residents of this hard-pressed Finger Lakes region considered Clinton the political equivalent of the Wicked Witch of the West. Older women, particularly, acidly criticized her as domineering, arrogant, ambitious and oblivious to blue-collar concerns--not to mention unable to rein in her philandering husband.
During her first term as the state's junior U.S. senator, Clinton hardly has morphed into Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. But the Democrat has shed much of her image as a broom-riding carpetbagger and gained more than a little respect and appreciation in some of the most conservative corners of the state.
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I want her to run. I think she'd get killed. A lot of Dems are uncomfortable with her. She wouldn't win the moderates. And she'd do more to engergize the GOP base than any candidate in history.
New York State did not embrace her. The libs and democrats that outnumber the right almost 2 to 1, thanks to New York City did.
Too many with big egos.
LOL! Excellent. Many, many upstate despise her, not enough though to overcome the dems. She has support in Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse yes, but most despise her.
Hey, WoW! That's gotta be a whole lotta woman!
Will the rest of the country embrace her? NO!
No.
If she running in 2008 I hope to have the rotten fruit and horse turd francise locked up in Ohio.
"He told me "..I'd vote for Hillary for president because, unlike Bush, she's an anti-communist!"
Boy...that is dense. It is like a Dilbert moment.
I can recall no case where she has appeared in public before a crowd that her posse hasn't hand picked. She is a coward and a fraud.
Oh, I've been looking for that image! Thank you!
You get the cigar!
Unfortunately, I would vote for Hillary 10 times before voting for McCain once.
What the hell does a Chicago reporter know about "Finger Lakes" politics anyway? Of course a NY Senator who collects nationwide campaign contributions is going to win re-election. That's not really an amazing acheivement. But it's no reason to believe she'll beat a Republican who's doing the same thing.
I hope this represents a trend, though. If more liberal reporters hop on the Hillary bandwagon, there's that much more chance she'll run in '08. The moonbats feel gypped that they had an "electable" candidate shoved down their throats in the last election. If the press join them in pushing Hillary, the Democrat Party bosses might not be able to keep her out of the race.
Oh hey! You are welcome! Glad I used it! :)
I cannot believe the American people will ever elect Hillary Clinton. Ugh. She's ugly. She's short. She's a terrible speaker. Her politics were left, but now she's all over the place. When she says "our Lord," you know she doesn't mean it.
I didn't realize that was a front-page article! So, what, there's absolutely nothing going on in Chicago right now, so they have to run stories from New York state?
It's been years (decades, really) since I've actually looked at a liberal paper as anything other than satire. Why would anyone read anything that lame if they're not stranded on an island or something?
News flash: It's the 21st Century; there are options now. It's hard to believe that only a few tens of thousands of people leave behind liberal media in an average day. What's up with the rest of those losers? When somebody switches, it's not like he's changing a belief or anything; it's more like he's waking up.
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