Should Hillary get the nomination, would she be best?

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Absolutely. Me too. I’ll vote for her over McCain and Giuliani, not to mention Brownback and Tancredo, but she’s at the bottom of my list for the primary.
The problem is distinguishing between someone who is competent but distasteful (Clinton, IMO), and someone who is not yet fit for the job (Obama, again IMO). Given the choice between only those two, I’d go for Obama, because all he lacks in my opinion is experience, but Clinton isn’t going to become less of a hawk or less of an idiot about video games.

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You should read what he says about Brownback! (Same entry.)

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That’s how I feel about it. I never got the impression during her time in the White House she was sitting at home knitting sweaters and reading books to kids. She was gaining invaluable experience we really need now. My vote would be for Billary, and after the last six years, I feel really really good about that.

I’m not too worried Hillary is going to spend her presidency banning video games.

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  1. I object to the idea that we need a former first lady because of her experience. Yes, HRC was more engaged in policy than most first ladies, but that is damning with faint praise. A former WH chief of staff is far more qualified in that regard; or, for that matter, a former secretary of the interior.

  2. Hillary is polling high because of celebrity & name recognition–period.

  3. The tendency to go back to the same family/subfaction is creeping royalism.

  4. The election of POTUS by choosing someone who is charismatic enough for the superficially minded, while seeming uninspiring but mostly harmless to the savvy, got us the last three schlemiels in office, culminating in the horrifyingly underqualified W. Bush.

  5. The anointing of a nominee before the first primary got us W., while the imitation of that in '04 got us a John Kerry nom & W.'s reelection.

For all these reasons, I deplore the support of HRC framed as: “Hillary: she’ll probably win.” We’ve been down this road before. “She’s better than the present idiot,” is not sufficient cause to hand her the nomination this far out. (I’m looking at the money & media people mostly, but at you, too, average citizen Dopers.)