There is as much danger in overestimating the enemy as there is in underestimating it. The GOP -- and a lot of folks here one FR -- in a blind panic made the mistake of overestimating Hillary in 2007. At the time, some of us were trying to get folks to keep their cool, step away from the heat of the moment, chill a bit, and remember that Hillary's popularity was and has always been manufactured by the MSM (as was Obama's), and that it was a mistake to choose the GOP candidate based on "the one who can beat Hillary."
Hillary's popularity is STILL manufactured; it's an illusion -- the majority are repulsed by her. There'd be only two ways she could win: vote fraud, or plurality from a third-party split. Either way, the majority of Americans would be downright furious at her being there, and Congress would swing hard right.
Fear is a good thing when it serves to alarm folks into recognizing a threat. Once fear has accomplished that, however, it should be shoved aside so that measured thinking can step up. Decisions should be made OUTSIDE of fear. Decisions made from a place of fear are almost always bad decisions. Decisons made from a place of courage are almost always going to be smarter decisions.
I hope conservatives have learned from history and avoid indulging the same "fear of Hillary" that they did in 2007.
Hillary Clinton enjoys higher marks than President Obama: poll
Poll: Hillary Clinton most liked
News services
CHICAGO – The most popular national political figure in America today was rejected by her own party three years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third suffer a form of buyer’s remorse, saying the United States would be better off now if she had become president in 2008 instead of Barack Obama.
The finding in the latest Bloomberg National Poll shows a higher level of wishful thinking about a Hillary Clinton presidency than when the question was asked in July 2010. Then, a quarter of Americans held such a view.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110917/NEWS/309179939/-1/NEWS09
Poll: Americans optimistic about Hillary Clinton presidency
She lost the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but over a third of Americans said the U.S. would be better off now if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were president, according to a new poll.
The Bloomberg survey released Friday showed 34 percent of those questioned said America would be superior under a Hillary Clinton administration, while 47 percent said it would be about the same and 13 percent said it would be worse.
I would rather have Hillary than Obama. I would rather have Fidel Castro than Obama. I hate Obama like I have never hated anyone.