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If she ran as a 3rd Party candidate and had the numbers going in high enough to scare the Obama-ites she would be functioning like Perot did, and probably “throw’ the election to McCain, who would likely have won anyway. It’s six of one, half-dozen of another. The Dem Establishment, which she and Bill in effect “ruled” until just recently, is going to have to decide on their own that they were foolish to have rolled the dice and picked Obama as the “New Clinton”> I do think they made a terrible mistake, and said so over and over on FR since the first big Obama “surge” had everybody stunned. THey are now in the unenviable position of looking at the near future and seeing that it may be “closer” than they wanted it to be.
They know if they continue (with the tacit approval and active help of the MSM of course) to keep promoting Obama as the “heir apparent”, that the negatives about him will probably keep rolling in, and there will be MORE defection to McCain by die-hard Hillary supporters, and that makes it even MORE unlikely that Obama would ever win the Presidency. SO-—just how badly DO the Dems want the Presidency? They are getting a clearer picture every day , like it’s an image slowly coming into focus in the developer bath in the darkroom: Obama is no sure thing. Obama will ENSURE a McCain victory. Should we find a way to get back to certifying Hillary? How can the superdelegates explain their reversal and justify throwing Obama under the bus, when all the propaganda has been directed toward christening Obama with the kind of “inevitability” HRC (and THEY!) thought was hers and theirs just 6-8 months ago??) The picture is coming clearer to me now, that a nice double whammy would be McCain picking HRC for his VEEP, but to do that would be to broadcast that he is indeed the RINO most of us think he is. It would however ENSURE he would win over Obama.
It won’t happen but it is logical that it could. SO, what would eventuate from that scenario? Everything will have come full circle again:The Dem Establishment , seeing the prospect of total defeat, would disentangle Hillary from her new identity as a McCain veep, and find a way to anoint her as THEIR candidate, with Obama perhaps as HER VEEP choice. SHE certainly wouldn’t want this, any more than McCain would want her as HIS Veep. But stranger compromises have happened in the back rooms, and figuring out how this story could run its course, is a lot of fun.
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HAVING said ALL THAT, I am just remembering now a dream I had last night (I just rolled out of bed 30 minutes ago)-——I am on a city street, very alive with the buzz of hundreds of people-—some political event or other is currently taking place, and I am making my way to it-—I look up and notice Teddy Kennedy, looking huge, and wrapped in flowing garments, is making his way down the middle of the street, by himself, probably on his way to his car.....I am shocked to see him, especially by himself, so soon after the terrible news about him was released. A rush of sympathy overcomes me and I want to acknowledge that I see him , so I yell out “Senator Kennedy!!! without even turning to look at me, he replies in a loud bellowing emphatic voice “NEVER MIND!!!!!!!”
-——maybe there’s a symbolic lesson there for all of the
above, and what’s going on in this weirdest of “election cycles”.