Letters to the Editor
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Slacky O. cut you some slack, Walter.
>"The New York senator had successfully joined the Democratic consensus against the Iraqi misadventure,..."
What are you babbling about? Sen. Clinton is *one* of the reasons we have the 'Iraqi misadventure'... btw, 'misadventure' is a gross misstatement. In case you have not heard, the Iraqi misadventure is, now, the Central Front in the Global War on Terror. (*last I heard, anyway)
Don't get me wrong, I'd take a pumpkin over the certifiable lunatics in the White House now...and Sen. Clinton is no dummy.
Imho, the Iraqi misadventure is the result of ignorance, incompetence and corruption, or a combination of the three. Which of these do you think most clearly describes Sen. Clintons' vote for the Iraqi 'misadventure' and when did she join 'the democratic consensu against it'?
bah.
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How Hillary will tank
Just be Hillary. That'll do. She's a beast.
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And there's still over a year to go?
Oy vey look at the rate these articles are coming now. How much more is there left to say? There's a lot of space left to fill between now and the election. Is there going to be an article like this every week? Or maybe twice a week?
It's too much. Salon is for the truly hardcore political junkies now.
Not my drug, sorry.
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Huh?
"Until the New York senator stares down a roomful of rivals on the attack, or glares her way through a media feeding frenzy, she is not ready to be crowned as the 2008 nominee."
Isn't that true of any candidate? I don't see it happening with the rest of the Democratic field right now.
I do agree that the 15% rule could hurt Clinton in the Iowa caucus. People in the less than 15% groups usually combine forces against who ever is in the lead. So say, if it is Clinton 30%, Obama 28%, and Edwards 22% (which is very likely in my precinct), the people for the rest of the candidates could join with Obama and give him 48%.
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I Sure Hope
that you are right. She is the most dishonest, disingenuous, phony politician to come along in my lifetime. She deserves to fail so we are not subjected to her mean and vindictive personality as that is the way she would try to lead. She has done so many dishonest things like travelgate filegate, stealing form Vince Foster's office after his death and now she has Sandy Berger on her staff. Imagine a person who stole classified documents and put them in his socks to protect the Clintons has now been paid off with a job. We may not have a perfect system but do we really want a banana republic with her in charge? I think not....
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New Series?
I'm looking forward to the series on other candidates tanking because there's no way you would write only about potential Clinton problems.
How Giuliani Juggernaut Could Collapse
How Romney Could Tie Himself to the Roof of McCain's Straight Talk Express
How McCain Train Could Derail
Etc.
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For Once I Agree With Shapiro - Sort Of
This article makes a Clinton tank sound like a force of nature -- not the changing of minds of tons of voters -- and I pick a bone with that. I pick a bone not only because it discounts real decisions, but it glosses over the real reasons why someone might not vote for Clinton.
For example, liberals are not going to be angry about the Iran vote because she is too "centrist," as Shapiro suggests; the vast majority of the public (certainly Democratic primary voters) don't want such a war, so it's not centrist to push for it.
And while Bill and the Clinton name might be a problem, it is obviously a greater asset. If she weren't Bill's wife, she would be a nobody and running even with Biden in the polls (if she could have ever become a Senator, which is unlikely). Articles on this very site cite the fact that many voters -- particularly African Americans -- support Clinton on the sole basis that she is Bill's wife.
The reasons why voters now casually supporting Clinton may change their mind in the next few months is that Clinton is riding on inevitability, not enthusiastic support. She has nothing that she's going to offer in the next few months that is going to excite the base. She's already shown that she will not be remotely liberal, on war, retirement, healthcare and other important issues; she's going to just play around the GOP frame and keep the status quo relatively safe. Given her lead in the polls, one can't help but guess that her opponents will exploit this weakness -- a vulnerability that has everything to do with millions of individual decisions that individual voters will make before January, not simply the downside of being too good a campaigner, as Shapirio implies.
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How Hillary could tank
As time passes, Hillary will have many more opportunities to demonstrate her unwillingness to stand up for anything other than her own candidacy. The baseball non-answer is simply the tip of the iceberg---Hillary cares only about becoming President, and will say and do whatever is necessary to win the nomination---and she will obfuscate whenever she knows that a direct answer will hurt her chances of being elected. Hillary is not good for our country, and I will never vote for her under any circumstances.
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They're waiting for her too
If she gets the nomination, we will have played right into the Republican's hands. They are planning something big against her, I can smell it. They got some plan no one knows about yet. She will tank and tank hard and we will look like the biggest fools. And have another 4 or 8 years of hell.
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Hillary will tank during the final election if nominated
And the irony is, if you tell people this, they won't believe you and will STILL vote for her. And for a number of reasons:
1. No one will mobilize the opposing Party more than Bill Clinton will...that is simply a fact and everyone knows it.
2. Lack of emotions - Hillary has a problem letting her emotions show...that's just her way but it WILL affect how some people see her and how they will vote for her.
3. Hillary's record - Hillary has voted fairly irratically concerning the war AND, it must be pointed out, has not proposed much in the way of legislation prior to her run for the Presidency.
4. Hillary's alienation of the military - no matter how you slice it, MOST of the military personnel (not ALL mind you) will most likely not vote for her.
Well, I could go on, but my point is, if Hillary becomes the Democratic Nominee, I doubt the Democrats will win this Presidential election this year.
Just my opinion of course.