Posted on 01/20/2007 9:18:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Hillary Clinton has finally announced that she is considering running for president in 2008 - a declaration anticipated for the past six years that puts a heavyweight contender into the race.
Senator Clinton has already made history by becoming the first former First Lady to be elected to public office.
But all thoughts will now turn to whether the New York Democrat really has what it takes to become the first woman president of the United States.
It would be foolish to dismiss a woman who sits on an enormous war chest and is backed by some of the best political strategists in the country.
But it would be equally unwise to bet that the US will elect a woman president when the country is at war - much less one who is already reviled by a substantial minority of Americans for her perceived liberalism and association with Bill Clinton.
Warning to Republicans
Mark Corallo, a Republican strategist, reckons she has a good chance of capturing the White House in 2008 - and says he is constantly warning friends against underestimating her.
"Every time a Republican tells me: 'We want [to run against] Hillary', I say: 'Be careful what you wish for'.
"There is no other candidate on either side of the equation that has the instant party organisation and the ability to raise an enormous amount of money.
"She has the two most formidable strategists in the Democratic Party - Terry McAuliffe and Harold Ickes," Mr Corallo says before correcting himself: "No, three, because Bill Clinton is the most formidable. The guy is brilliant."
Mr Corallo, co-owner of the consultancy Corallo Comstock, says only one Democrat could take the party's nomination away from Senator Clinton: Barack Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois.
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What a joke of a comment! Hillary got elected by New Yorkers in a LANDSLIDE.
what's unreal is that posters here thing that "vince foster" and related issues, are the way to beat her. none of that is going to work, any voters concerned about those issues - are already voting against her.
The purpose of this article and more to follow---legitamize Hillary.
When she gets the nomination I'll be asking my liberal acquantances/friends where they stand on Hillary's election possibilities and I'll tell those who side with her, in very clear terms, that they are now my enemy, fwiw.
Our only chance of taking this thing back is by a Moderate candidate to counter the Democrats shift to the middle.
We have to fight fire with fire. We have no other choice.
I pray that I'm wrong!
Nope, I'll just BLOAT and watch and report. I'll try to remember, a loser like Jimmy Carter give us Ronald Reagan, so if the history repeats, we'll see a George Washington level statesmen return.
Well then it will be their fault if she wins .. we need those voters to stop her
I myself will vote for whoever the candidate is in the General Election
Our country cannot afford having Hellary and Bill back in the WH
People are tired of Bush/Clinton presidencies.
She could win, but I think that the Dems won't nominate her. They love Bill, but not Hillary. She picked a bad year to run. People want new faces/ideas - she's the establishment/Democrat elitist candidate..... She'd do herself a huge favor by staying in the Senate and building her legacy there. We really don't need two clintons in search of a legacy -
That's strange because with the 'Rat total domination of all three branches of the government, they failed to institute Socialist Health Care in the United States back in '93.
Absolutely. I have no doubt she'll head the ticket with Obama as VP. She absolutely owns the left wing female demographic as well as most radical libs, and Obama will bring in the Black vote and plenty of fringers (including what is known as 'Reagan Democrats' and probably quite a few liberal Pubbies).
Get ready for a very bumpy ride. The Pubbies are like deer caught in the headlights with absolutely no overall strategy I can see to counter the Hillary threat. Our only hope is a moderate like Rudy (I have a problem with that) or a true conservative like Newt (and lots of single-issue 'conservatives' have a problem with that). What with media demonization and a split base, Newt probably can't be elected unless something in the dynamic changes.
The real problem is that there's no such thing as a "conservative vote." We're fractured into several segments that are often at war with each other -- you can see clear evidence of that right here on FR. We got a big taste of that in the past election, with predictable results. If we can't get a unified act together, I'm preparing for at least 8 years of hell on earth.
Gore/Obama will be the Rat ticket for 2008. Hillary will be humiliated in the primaries.
Al Gore haven't announced that he's running for President.
My bags are packed. Whose going with me? And where?
True, if you mean Republicans in the White House and Congress have recklessly fractured the trust of conservative voters. Conservative Americans are united on most issues, IMO.
We've been hearing about the Democrats' lack of a plan for a few years, yet they now have the majority in Congress, thanks, in a big way, to our President. Some true conservatives became fed up with this administration and either stayed home or voted for another party.
George Bush won't be running in '08. What we need is a small miracle.
If we can't trust the President and Congressmen we elected to represent us, we're in a bad way. I think the one conservative who might stand a real chance is Newt. But I've seen him viciously savaged in this forum for his personal life. Romney really isn't a conservative and as much as I like Duncan Hunter I don't feel he has the national stature to win. I don't consider McCain a conservative: he's done us a lot of serious damage and I doubt I could ever vote for him. He'd make a deal with the Devil if it advanced him personally.
We're as fractured as the Dems were back in the 1970s. I see huge fault lines along such issues as illegal immigration and 'family values' (can we support a divorced candidate or one who has a moderate position on abortion or homosexuality?) The country clubbers (the ones who finance most Pubbie Congressmen) pursue a one-world agenda and ship jobs and entire industries overseas while opening the borders to low-paid illegals and possibly terrorists. Meanwhile other conservatives are losing their jobs to India and China.
The only consolation is that it's still almost two years to the election and lots can happen in that time. But Hillary's got tons of money, a cutthroat campaign organiazation -- and possibly a bunch of FBI files.
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