# Hillary Clinton, stop turning Republican... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830 "2005-03-29T20:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/41 "2005-03-30T13:01:53Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Santorum? If he’s the best the party has to offer, we’re screwed. Where’s McCain? That’s a candidate I’d like to see. \ **THAT** ship has sailed! \ I think he might try. But he’s been passed up by others who are younger and better connected. If he wanted that high an office he should have tried a 3rd party last year. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/42 "2005-03-31T05:44:55Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > \ > **THAT** ship has sailed! > \ > > I think he might try. But he’s been passed up by others who are younger and better connected. If he wanted that high an office he should have tried a 3rd party last year. While suspecting that you were/are correct, Sir- I still maintain my hopes. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/43 "2005-03-31T06:01:11Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > I think [McCain] might try. But he’s been passed up by others who are younger and better connected. If he wanted that high an office he should have tried a 3rd party last year. If he had split the Republican base even a couple of percent he would have cost Bush the presidency. There is no way the party would have allowed that. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/44 "2005-03-31T06:22:00Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Santorum? If he’s the best the party has to offer, we’re screwed. Where’s McCain? That’s a candidate I’d like to see. McCain. Shit, I’ll write in my own fucking name. The guy’s one of the biggest douche bags in the party. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/45 "2005-03-31T06:33:00Z")
> [@Machetero](#): > > McCain. Shit, I’ll write in my own fucking name. The guy’s one of the biggest douche bags in the party. I wouldn’t go that far, but I will agree he will never win on the GOP ticket as a Presidential candidate. But put him on a Rice/McCain ballot, and I’d be willing to put some money on it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/46 "2005-03-31T10:23:30Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Maybe she’s taking notes from Tipper. Hear hear. Those wonderful decency police who just want to protect us from unseemly entertainment are on both sides of the aisle. “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” apparently grabs way more votes than “Won’t somebody please think of the First Amendment?” or “Won’t somebody please raise their own kids instead of asking the government to do it?” The hell with all these douchebags. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/47 "2005-03-31T10:24:56Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > [singing] > “I’m turning 'publican > I think I’m turning 'publican > I really think so…” > [/singing] Dammit **Finn** , it only fits the rhythm and rhyme scheme if you do it this way: “I think I’m turning G.O.Pese I think I’m turning G.O.Pese I really think so…” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/48 "2005-04-02T03:59:45Z")
Whoops. I hit the rhythm but missed the rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/49 "2005-04-02T06:03:00Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > …except insofar as to champion massive social spending boondoggles. Mr Clinton presided over very large budget surpluses. And Mr Bush? ---
**Author:** ![zetafunction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/57b2e6/32.png) [@zetafunction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zetafunction)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/50 "2005-04-02T06:08:16Z")
How likely is it that Hillary will win the nomination? Please god tell me that the democrats who voted for John Kerry because of “electability” will realize how stupid it will be to vote for Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/51 "2005-04-02T17:15:10Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > Mr Clinton presided over very large budget surpluses. And Mr Bush? By manipulating budgets and borrowing against future monies. Bush, on the other hand, goes for massive _military_ spending boondoggles. Oh, and “faith-based” charity. :rolleyes: Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/52 "2005-04-02T18:41:12Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Hear hear. Those wonderful decency police who just want to protect us from unseemly entertainment are on both sides of the aisle. “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” apparently grabs way more votes than “Won’t somebody please think of the First Amendment?” or “Won’t somebody please raise their own kids instead of asking the government to do it?” The hell with all these douchebags. Well, it takes a village, does it not? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/53 "2005-04-02T23:26:06Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > If he had split the Republican base even a couple of percent he would have cost Bush the presidency. There is no way the party would have allowed that. > > Enjoy, > Steven How might they have prevented him? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/54 "2005-04-02T23:31:08Z")
I actually think this is a sound strategy by Hillary to grab the idiot vote that Rove has been harvesting like so much wheat on Bush’s behalf lately. Going after an art form primarily loved by voteless teens is sound strategy. Despicable conduct, but sound strategy. Shows she’s Amurrican. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830/55 "2005-04-03T02:04:06Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Democrats pretending to be Democrats haven’t done too well these past few elections, so of course we are going to see Democrats pretending to be Republicans as '06 and '08 approach. “By being as the Republicans we can defeat the Republicans.” -Matt Groening [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-stop-turning-republican/296830.md?page=2)