Posted on 10/20/2007 2:48:28 PM PDT by neverdem
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.—Steve Valdez, a retired high school history teacher, is keeping an eye on the presidential campaign and wondering about Sen. Hillary Clinton's chances.
"Is history ready?" asks Valdez, an independent voter, unsure whether voters will embrace the controversial former first lady for president.
With Clinton consolidating her lead over Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, her Democratic rivals are increasingly questioning her ability to win the White House in a general election. They say her polarizing persona will keep her from defeating a Republican, hoping the seeds of doubt they plant now will cause voters to look their way come primary or caucus day.
Ever since Clinton stepped onto the presidential stage with her husband, she has been a lightning rod on the right and sometimes the left. She offended some women when she defended her decision to work, saying, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas." She raised eyebrows when the public learned she had turned $1,000 into $100,000 from cattle futures trading. And she became a political target when she tried to overhaul the health-care system with closed-door meetings.
Her opponents argue that Clinton engenders such hostile feelings that she will energize Republicans against her and other Democratic candidates, particularly in swing states like Colorado. Already, the Republican National Committee is taking aim at Clinton multiple times a day while virtually ignoring her rivals.
The question of electability is often tied up in a candidate's likability, and in Clinton's case, it could also be an alternative way of asking whether a woman can be elected president. It is a loosely defined but fundamentally important part of the formula for a winning candidate.
"I think there's no doubt that she carries some significant baggage," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief...
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IMO, it’s still a tossup. Barring any stunning primary results, she remains the heir apparent to the DNC nomination.
So far, the Republicans have yet (still IMO) to field a candidate with sufficient vision and appeal to attract the majority of the conservative base. Withe the likes of Lou Dobbs threatening to try to sway his followers to vote 3rd party should a Giuliani, Romney, or McCain become the GOP nominee, we could well face another 1992 election when Perot returned to the campaign trail (after pulling out) to split the conservative vote and hand the WH to the Clintons. He returned in 1996 against an ineffective (but well-respected) Bob Dole to do it again!!
Dobbs could end up causing history to repeat itself if the GOP doesn’t get its act together and push a candidate who can appeal to and unite the base.
If not, we could end up having to grow accustomed to seeing “President Hillary Clinton” all over the news.
But the real question is, can she be prevented from becoming president?
She can't be prevented as long as she and her husband are under the protection of the current occupant of the white house.
yeah, whatever.
No, I think she’s under the protection of the “power behind the throne” of the Democrat party! You know, the George Soros type!
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NEVER FORGET
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In another time of war in a another century HILLARY RODHAM & WILLIAM CLINTON supported our terrorist Communist North Vietnamese enemy’s push to take over the then Free South Vietnamese People, horridly bringing down on the once Free:
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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What price is left for the still Free, that’s US, to pay now...
...in a new time of war against terrorists
...in a new century
...with our own Freedom
...directly at stake
...right here at home..?
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Signed:..”ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer
Veteran-”WE WERE SOLDIERS” Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
(”WE WERE SOLDIERS” Photo Collection)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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NEVER FORGET
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Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted Sod
Gore's Inconvenient 9/11 Truth
The Real Al Gore (An attack from the left!)
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This thing is over.
Hillary wins in a blow out, and we are all in for a serious dose of pain.
It is so very maddening.
Short answe......................NO!
Testing. Copyright Uncle Miltie.
Thanks for the ping!
Thompson may emerge as the savior of the Republican Party but, in his early campaign so far, he has stumbled several times. Whether he can recover remains yet to be seen. Support for Thompson seems to be wavering as the result of his early missteps. Clearly, he can't afford any more miscues if he is to become the GOP nominee.
What are these missteps? He doesn't have a rip roaring speaking style, and he still believes in states rights about marriage?
Of course the media wants to force a candidate into the mold of a hollywood entrance, and then sprint away in the horse race and if they don’t hew to that line then the msm labels them as a failure.
As dark as it looks with hilary seemingly ordained, I see some strength and wisdom in our crop of repubs (with all their failings), and I don’t think they will cannabise each other like hrc will do to her opponents. I also think that our guys will save their heaviest guns for the end-game against her. And no matter who our nominee is, our Potus/cabinet will look hugely better than hers.
I sure hope she does win. The Republican party is just a bunch of liberals and RINOs. I’m so sick of politicians who blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...
Yeah, nothing daunts a bunch of leftists like a disunified opposition. They are really intimidated by that.
Thanks neverdem.
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