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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Kangaroo commission, LOL.
He told me "..I'd vote for Hillary for president because, unlike Bush, she's an anti-communist!"
Who do you think's been voting Dim for the last 30 or 40 years! LOL
I've come to one concrete conclusion about those that have pulled the lever for liberal Dims over the years: They're either utterly intellectually lazy or have absolutely no clue about human, world, and U.S. history in the context of human nature.
I really don't care who the voters of New York choose to elect as their senator. On the other hand, if she runs for president, I will do anything and everything legally possible to prevent that from happening.
Ditto from this one too!! She may think she has "won the heart of New Yorkers" but the only ones that love her are the ones south of Albany...freakin' Westchester county is responsible for that B!^ch being in the Senate....
That's an interesting observation. I wonder how far from reality she is, surrounded as she is by yes-men and girls too intimidated to make eye contact.
She can't win in the South. ;)
She would have to do "Pretty in Pink" all the time. Proper make-up, manicure, BIG hair, pearls, impeccable manners. She's a loser.
lol
MEOW!!
I wish I had your confidence and trust me I am not a fatalist. All she needs is a Colorado or Ohio to swing her way. As far as your comment, I like what I see in the crowds at college football games :-)
From your lips to God's ears.
(... compliments to "Dead")
Sunlight, Wooden Stakes and Holy Water?
Oh, I wasn't speaking about the rest of the country, just the South. ;) Hillary is no Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Elizabeth Dole. She is too harsh in attitude and manner so I don't think she can win the South.
Granted we did send Cynthia McKinney to DC but that's one district in one state. lol I forgot about that other dingbat Sheila Jackson Lee from TX, make that two districts in two states. Neither of those would win state wide elections.
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