Posted on 11/29/2007 6:57:18 AM PST by Phlap
Running for higher office from the senate is a losing proposition. It didn't work for Lloyd Benson or Joe Lieberman as VP and it didn't work for John Kerry as Pres. Now, leaving didn't help Bob Dole bu that is another story.
So the question is when should Hillary quit the senate?
Good question - if she is SO SURE she is going to win, then why stay in the Senate? She can use the time to shop for new drapes.
Kerry didn’t. She wont either.
She should just quit period.
Kerry never quit. It’s the new standard ( for democrats only that is).
Hillary should quit the country.
She won’t leave the Senate. she can’t stand the heat of campaigning and will not be the nominee. once it is clear to her that she will not simply be coroneted without a slug fest, she will hang on to the power her senate seat provides for dear life. Hillary is going nowhere
“When will Hillary quit the senate?”
AND get the h&^% out of American public life???? NOT SOON ENOUGH!!!!!
Quite a federally funded job?
You gotta be kidding me, ‘as if’....(chuckle)
Quit? I heard last night that she was going on the rocket-to-Mars trip!?!?! ;-)
Never, because its the honorable thing to do.
So the question is when should Hillary quit the senate?
It’s not going to happen. Dole only did it because the Washington Post told him to do it. He was the laughing stock of the political world.
Yes, and by the way so should Dodd and Biden. Unles, of course, they are noit serious about running and are only doing it just to accumulate a war chest for their retirement.
Are there not TWO (2) standards?
Republicans MUST resign.
Democrats need not.
Just ask the MSM.
Democrats never do what is right for the country. The good news is, she and Osama won’t be in the Senate screwing stuff up every day they are on the campaign trail.
Though I’d laugh if $400-haircut guy made an issue out of it.
Dodd absolutely should resign. He has taken no heat at all for moving his family out of state so they can campaign full time in Iowa. I don’t think one CT Republican has even said a word about this outrage.
No one pressured Lieberman to resign in 2000 either of course. Then, as now, we have Republican governors here though the current and previous governor are “moderates.” Still they would have appointed fellow Republicans to fill the vacancy so obviously there was no clamor from the elites for these Demo senators to step down.
The curious bit is that all the other senators who ran for POTUS/VPOTUS had a real interest in staying in the Senate, representing their state, and acting as lifelong professional politicians if they did not win the presidential election. Sure they wanted the top seat (or at least the one next to it), but they were content to stay on as career senators.
...but not so for Hillary. There is no question (especially considering her carpetbag stunt) that she is the senator from NY _ONLY_ as a steppingstone to the grand prize. She has no interest being a senator per se, cares nothing for NY, and unless she sees a serious chance of viably running again in 4 years, I can’t see why she would remain in the Senate.
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