Posted on 01/03/2003 8:21:07 AM PST by arj
While public polls show New York Senator Hillary Clinton the current front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, the former First Lady is telling friends and advisors that her biggest obstacle to going back to the White House is not George W. Bush but her womanizing husband.
So concerned are Mrs. Clinton’s campaign strategists, they have conducted a number of polls and focus groups to test public reaction to a divorce.
Early indications are the freshman New York Senator would run stronger without her husband’s baggage.
“The bottom line is that she’s popular. He’s not,” says Democratic strategist Holly Clarkson. “She has more appeal to the voters and she doesn’t need him to win an election.”
Clearly, divorce is one of the decisions Clinton must make if she decides to run for President in 2004. Her husband’s womanizing continues and tabloids have linked him to a long string of new lovers, including actress Demi Moore.
“Clinton is more of a whorehound now than when he was in the Oval Office,” says a New York City police officer who has worked guard detail on the former President. “The guy must be taking Viagra with all the tail he’s getting.”
Even some of the city’s high-priced call girls have told New York vice cops they have been servicing the former President.
“Some of them are just bragging and blowing smoke,” one vice officer told Capitol Hill Blue, “but I’ve known some of these girls a long time and I believe one or two of them. From all the stories I’ve been hearing, it’s possible.”
Capitol Hill Blue has also learned that Clinton’s Secret Service team has a higher-than-normal turnover rate as agents asked to be transferred away from the former President, even if the transfer means a lower-profile post.
“The agents don’t respect him,” says one retired Secret Service agent. “Can you blame them?”
Sources within the Democratic Party say Clinton’s ever-increasing philandering is worrying top party brass who now view the ex-President as a liability for fundraising and other uses.
“It’s difficult to arrange to have the former President appear at a high-dollar event and then find out he hit on the wife of the event organizer,” says one DNC staffer. “He is out of control.”
The former President’s very public love life is not the only affairs of the heart that concern Democratic strategists who are planning Hillary’s 2004 run for the Presidency. The worry about continued rumors on the Senator’s after hours activities.
“Don’t think that Hillary is sitting around waiting for Bill to come home and change shirts,” admits one Democratic consultant. “She’s done her share of bed-hopping. She just knows how to be discreet.”
After presidential aide Vince Foster’s mysterious death in 1993, rumors swirled around Washington about an affair between Hillary and the longtime Clinton confidant. Others suggested the First Lady preferred female companionship.
“She never talks about her private life,” says one former Clinton White House staffer. “She has one but it is exactly that – private.”
But campaign consultants worry that Hillary’s private life or sexual preferences will have a hard time staying private under the intense glare of a political campaign.
Political scientist George Harleigh, who has watched the Clintons since their days in Arkansas, say Bill and Hillary have “one of the most complex and confusing relationships that we’ve ever seen in political circles.”
“The general impression has always been that their marriage is one of convenience,” Harleigh says. “I think it goes deeper in that. They seem to feed off each other, in both good times and bad. The question that will have to be answered if Hillary runs for President will be ‘is the feeding frenzy over?’”
Spokesmen for both the Senator and the former President did not return phone calls seeking comment on this report.
Ol' John would have to have an IQ in the room temperature range to take THAT job. There's not a life insurance agent in the world who would write so much as a $500 burial policy on the POTUS if Hillary were VP. He'd have the life expectancy of a mayfly.
Do you think they imagine they can campaign across the country like she did in New York, not answering one damn question?
I've heard one really bizzare rumor that Bill and Hill sometimes even have sex with each other. However, this is probably the weirdest of all the rumors about them.
What booing? Don't you know that history has been re-edited by VH-1 so those boos have been replaced by cheers.
A little slow on the uptake aren't they? I'm sure glad they didn't figure this out before Nov 5 2002.
Opening unauthorized FBI files is a felony - eh? Wouldn't voters need to know her complete record up front?
Great, first we elected the Whoremonger, now the socialists want to elect the Whore.
When the Democrat Party realizes it will never regain any appreciable amount of power until they 1) insist that the Clintons be criminally prosecuted for their crimes, 2) repudiate and purge the communist/socialist influences from the party, and 3) develop real ideas that are for the good of the country instead of the party and are in keeping with the mainstream thought of the American people. (I don't expect to live long enough to see another Democrat President)
To those bemoaning the stupidity of the American people, I suggest it's dangerous to confuse stupidity with apathy or complacency, and we have plenty of people in both categories; however, once you do get their attention, you'd better hope that in the process you didn't piss them off. Yamamoto still bears silent witness to those attendant dangers.
She will try .. but she can avoid us .. hehehe
It is inappropriate usage and very rude to use the term 'Gentleman' and Bill Clinton, or any of his iterations, in the same sentence.
My favorite - not a vanity plate, just a regular plate issued unknowingly by the Florida DMV.
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