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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Hillary the prudent

Democrats burning for the inspirational uplift of Barack Obama or the left-leaning edge of John Edwards may not be ready for an authentic moderate.

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  • Tuesday, March 13, 2007 01:41 PM

    An Inconvenient Truth

    Hillary won't get elected President because outside of NY and a few other states, folks don't read and don't think hard. They watch FOX News and nod at Rush Limbaugh... dems got elected in the last election not because they are universally loved, but because the GOP candidates were, even on FOX News, plainly idtots and evil. Plus there was a firestorm (rightly so) of bad GOP-connected press.

    It is unlikely that Hillary, if she becomes the candidate, will have such a perfect storm.

    So that's a worry. A bigger worry though, is what is she? She's for abstinence, a flag burning amendment, speaks out agaist abortion, seems to be for the war...

    The inconvenient truth is Hillary may be a woman, may be Bills' wife, may be more personable than the shrew she plainly was for most of her life, but she isn't strong, she isn't solidly a DEM.

    Those that love her love what they THINK she is. Those that hate her hate because what they THINK she would do.

    Those that hate her-- not in the DEM party but nationwide-- outnumber those that even remotely like her 2-1 at least.

    She will never be President. If she is the nominee, get ready for 8 more years of the same drain.

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