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Hillary

I've received my first missive as a Friend of Hillary (we're really not all that close friends) - what I find interesting is that the "Clinton Presidency" is mentioned in paragraph 2, while Hillary's upcoming Senate run has to wait until paragraph 3. Fruedian slip? Forgetting what we're supposed to be immediately concentrating on?

Be that as it may, I found this bit further down to be interesting:

in the last presidential campaign, the impact of negative television advertising – even when it’s not true.

Right wing activists are determined to run the same kind of attacks against Hillary. Their web sites and direct mail boast that they will have an even better funded anti-Hillary campaign than they had last time.

The Vast, Right Wing Conspiracy lives! I guess this plays well with the Rubes who will be writing out checks for Hillary - I don't think they understand that while we know Hillary is out there, we're much more interested in our own agenda than whatever it is a mediocre, leftwing New York Senator is up to.

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush at 3:13 PM in category Campaign News

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I feel so sorry for the Democrats, They are going to pin all their hopes on Hillary....I guess something more worse than Clinton is a female version of him

Posted by: Joe Bananas...in Pyjamas at December 2, 2004 04:21 PM

Correction, Mark....a mediocre, leftwing, CARPETBAGGING New York Senator.

Posted by: Tannenberg at December 2, 2004 06:10 PM

Don't discount Hilary and get too confident. She could very well be our first female President. We need to concentrate and a super candidate to beat her.

Posted by: Carstairs38 at December 2, 2004 06:46 PM

Hillary can't win outside the Northeast and West Coast, and the Democrats know this. I seriously doubt they'd go with Hillary, with all this talk of moving to the center, appealing to the south, getting their values, etc.

My guess is a midwest or southern governor. They might go for a senator again, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Plausability at December 2, 2004 08:04 PM

GIULIANI/RICE for 2008!!!

Posted by: luke at December 2, 2004 09:46 PM

James Taranto over at Best of the Web gives even more reason why Hillary would not be the Dems' best option to run in 2008 (or ever for that matter):

The Dems' U.N. Corruption Problem

Remember Marc Rich? He's the fugitive financier who fled to Switzerland in 1983 after his indictment on 65 counts of tax fraud, tax evasion and racketeering, then received a pardon from Bill Clinton just before President Bush's inauguration in 2001--and he's back in the news. ABC News reports that Rich "was a middleman for several of Iraq's suspect oil deals in February 2001," the month after Clinton pardoned him. "A U.S. criminal investigation is looking into whether Rich, as well as several other prominent oil traders, made illegal payments to Iraq in order to obtain the lucrative oil contracts."

Is this a political problem for the Democrats? Maybe not in itself, but the New York Post's Deborah Orin argues that U.N. corruption more generally "spells more trouble for a Democratic Party still reeling from its Nov. 2 election losses":

Why? Because Democrats tend to reflexively back the United Nations--that's what 2004 loser John Kerry did, suggesting that a corrupt U.N. that cheerfully let Saddam Hussein rip off $21.3 billion could be trusted more than President Bush in Iraq.

"The idea that we need the U.N. to help us was certainly not a popular thing in focus groups that I watched this fall," dryly remarks senior Democratic strategist Anita Dunn.

Against this backdrop, the possible implication of Rich in the scandal looks like more of a problem for the Dems, since it suggests they're not merely naive but corrupt. That's even more true if the party's 2008 presidential nominee turns out to be someone related by marriage to the man who pardoned Rich.

Posted by: MICHAEL in MI at December 2, 2004 11:29 PM

How in the world do they know about the right wing conspiracy? Who told them that the machine is oiled and ready to be as powerful as in '04? Gee these people must be on a permanent LSD trip, fancing things that have not even been said, perhaps not even thought. Lol. I can't help but giggle a lot hahaha.

Posted by: Miguel at December 3, 2004 06:11 AM

Hillary will not get the nomination, period. She may weasel her way onto the ticket in the #2 spot, but even that is unlikely. Look for a plethora of Southern Democrat governors trying to become the anointed one for the libs in an attempt to duplicate Slick's success. No liberal from New England will EVER be nominated for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Scaramonga at December 3, 2004 10:50 AM

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