Stop Right There
There’s an idea I’ve heard bandied about that I feel obliged to put a stop to right now. People, disabuse yourselves of the notion that Hillary Clinton should make a run for the White House in 2008. She’s a tough, intelligent, accomplished, outspoken woman who does not defer to men. She even dared to keep her own surname after getting married. "Red America" hates her now, will hate her then, and will turn out in numbers to defeat her. I seriously hope Hillary is not even considering such a move.
I’d recommend she hold out for a seat on the Supreme Court once we get a Democrat back in the White House. With any luck, she can have a seat right next to John Ashcroft.
November 4th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
Thank you. Hillary is pretty much toast as far as reputation concerns. It’s like all the hopeful for Obama in 2008. Not yet! Give him time to build his reputation - he is a true original and care should be taken.
November 4th, 2004 at 10:39 pm
T.,
Are you sure your Deaniac pals won’t read past the second sentence? There are Dean-Obama 08 shirts and bumper stickers out there, ya know. Hillary [my heroine!] is a “threat” to the Dean in 08 movement!
But serious [not that I haven’t been], there are reasons to think Hillary is perfectly positioned for 08 [if we may engage in Raw Politics]. John Edwards is jobless and did not rally the South or rural areas or North Carolina as Kerrey’s Veep. Edwards did not make enroads into ‘values’-interested America.
Ya know, in many ways, Dean was right with what he said about getting those southerners with Confederate flags on their pickups to come over to the Dems. I do think that Bill Clinton succeeded in that. He carried Georgia, after all, in 92. And Kentucky twice. Rednecks and liberals can be joined in a shotgun marriage against the Corporate Republican Party.
The discussion needs to be about fairness: Gay rights should be presented as libertarianism in action, not as a rights grab. We must see the deficit as being an equally-shared burden, thus highlighting the injustice of this shovelling of money to the wealthy under the guise of ‘tax relief.’ We must talk about the war as being something where the young & poorer people die while the rich have no responsiblities at all.
I think that Hillary can best make some of these arguments.