The first rule of picking a running mate: don’t select someone who will overshadow you. Who on earth would want to have a media magnet like Hillary as their VP?
Wesley Clark?
Chin-jutting tough guy, military demeanor for the testosterone-impaired, “Stand By Your Man” health care/PTA Hilary. Bonus: The Big Dog will campaign for the ticket in exchange for a bit of slack on the chain around his…“naughty bits”.
Who loses? Chelsea. Poor baby.
In political circles, this is called a “kangaroo ticket”, ie: the hindquarters are bigger than the forequarters. It is generally considered a Bad Thing.
Of course, in Hillary’s case, the “bigger hindquarters” remark…
Tim Noah updates the GOP-porn fantasy, right on time:
Ah, well, it’s no more of a GOP-porn fantasy than the Iraq war justifications, except with nobody getting killed, so go enjoy yourselves, guys.
Only if you count three percent as a “huge margin”, and that will likely vanish as the actual candidates get more name recognition. Besides which, there still is that annoying fact that Hillary isn’t going to run in 2004, and she isn’t going to run in 2008, and she isn’t going to run in 2012…
Once Hillary dies, I wonder what conservative radio show hosts will use as a tactic to keep their audiences riled up. Will they start insisting that now it Chelsea who’s orchestrating everything as a plot to run for the White House at some point in the future, or will they insist that Hillary is planning to use necromancy and rise from the grave to run again? Either way, the dittoheads will sooner believe it then admit that they were wrong about Hillary’s plans.
My prediction is Hillary in '12. Unless she has health problems she won’t be too old. If she can rack up a decent Senatorial track record and keep from being forgotten, time may even be on her side (I’m under the admittedly uncited and unreferenced impression that the electorate likes older women better than younger ones).
I think AHunter3 has a point. Hilary has to do something in the Senate, or every time she runs it will be as “former co-President”, and the Republicans will beat her to death on her and her husband’s record.
Reagan forever put complaints about age as a disqualification off the Republican table, unless Hilary develops some noticeable health problems over the next few years. Possibly not even then, since Cheney is VP, even with his heart problems.
She simply can’t run this cycle. She can’t attack Bush about Iraq, or they will trot out all the times she is on record as saying that Saddam had WMD. The economy is recovering, so that probably won’t be an issue. Health care she already gave her best shot, and failed.
Regards,
Shodan
Y’all keep saying 2012. What about Hillary in 2008? If she can’t defeat Bush in 2004 and he wins then the field is wide open in 2008. But then there is his brother in Florida. Wow, 3 Bushes in the Whitehouse. by that time one of W’s daughters would be old enough and sober enough to run. It would be a Monarchy.
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God doesn’t hate America that much. Frogs, boils, locusts, that sort of thing, standard biblical plagues.
But not that.
I think that the main problem with that idea is the fact that she would not have gone into the Senate if she wanted to run for president.
She would have ran for governor somewhere.
Though I think the constant Republicans wanting her to run show a difference in between what Republicans and Democrats want in a leader. Republicans love the idea of family members of a president running for president. It used to be the Kennedys then of course now we have both the Clintons and the Bush family. I have no idea why.
She stands a brilliant chance of winning if only because she is the most remarkable liar in existance.
Filegate
Travelgate
VinceFostergate
Whitewatergate-RoseLawFirm
Cattlefuturesgate
Communist Medical Care
Carpetbaggate
FALNgate (remember those P.R. Terrorists released for the P.R. Vote?)
Please for the love of all that is good and hopeful for the future, do not vote for her.
Y’all keep saying 2012. What about Hillary in 2008? If she can’t defeat Bush in 2004 and he wins then the field is wide open in 2008. But then there is his brother in Florida. Wow, 3 Bushes in the Whitehouse. by that time one of W’s daughters would be old enough and sober enough to run. It would be a Monarchy.
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No, the Republicans want her to run because she’d make an easy target – they’d just have to dust off all the old Bill Clinton smears, change a few names, and viola! Instant disinformation campaign!
See what I mean? Poor Vezer here believes Hillary has no chance in hell because of all these past controversies, yet conveniently ignores the fact that both Clintons were ultimately proven innocent on all charges. Scandal-screaming headlines beat out over mundane truth seven days a week.
See? Even in this short thread, essentially all the speculation about her running is from the righties - who nevertheless maintain a claim to realism.