[Salvey]

It'll never happen. She'll have to make the rounds of the Sunday morning talk shows and will, of necessity, have to answer a lot of sticky questions that will be thrown at her. She simply doesn't have the ability to spar with, say, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Russert, et al, and to respond spontaneously under these conditions. "Ya know" and "I mean" get awfully tired after a while. No, they won't permit her to be the 'RAT senate leader. (And dare I suggest that "the most intelligent woman in America" lacks the intelligence to engage in the kind of repartee that will be demanded of her in this high-profile job?)

[You Dirty Rats]

How many press conferences had she ever engaged in?

How often does she appear in non-scripted venues publically?

That's right, very few (if any).

She is a classic example of someone who is much better suited to operating behind the scenes. She couldn't even sell her socialist health care program ten years ago, and now there is talk of her as Senate Mnority Leader?

We should get so lucky.

[TheRightGuy]

She simply doesn't have the ability to spar with, say, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Russert

They will each be indicted and convicted of invading her space -- ala Lazio.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

"Ya know" and "I mean" are truly improper English. I wonder why she never learned to removed them from her speech patterns. Maybe using these phrases keeps her connected to "the little people".