Letters to the Editor
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Shapiro's Strained Logic
Yet despite her strong overall lead, more than half the Democratic voters (in almost every poll) prefer other presidential candidates.
Nonsense!
The latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows Clinton 50%, Obama 21%, and Edwards 13%.
Shapiro argues that those numbers indicate that half of the Democrats prefer someone other than Clinton.
The problem with Shapiro's argument is that, according to your own metrics, one must logically conclude that 79% of Democrats prefer candidates other than Obama, and 87% prefer candidates other than Edwards.
Is this really the best Shaprio can do?
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Nobody wants the middle
Hillary Clinton will attempt to govern from the middle, and no one wants to go there. Neoconservatives, now that they have had a taste of power, won't accept compromise. Antiwar Democrats, fed up with 16, yes 16 years of Republican foreign policy, including Bill's bipartisan war against Iraq, sanctions, and the no-fly zone. are fed up. There is no one left in the middle, except some disgruntled Republican swing voters, the most clueless lot. The secret of Hillary Clinton's success is Karl Rove. She is his best hope at holding on to power, because he knows the Right can move the standard, and she will follow.
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Oh Please Make It So
For God's sake Democrats, please don't nominate Hillary! I'd like to cast a vote in the next election and Edwards is the only candidate I could wholeheartedly endorse. Obama is a possibility, but no way in Hell will I vote for Hillary. Since I can't stand any of the current front-running Republicans either, if Hillary is the Democratic nominee I'll probably end up only voting in local races and spending election night in a drunken stupor.
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Wow!
Do those of you who have thrown venom at Senator Clinton realize that you are repeating the same nonsensical reasons why Hillary Clinton is not the right candidate. I wish you would at least come up with some original smear. It does get boring reading the same stuff over and over.
Well, we will see in the next year what happens.
Go Hillary!
AliceInWonderLand
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and not a word about Edwards' big support from labor--yesterday
The Democrats' most electable candidate is not Clinton. All the people who hate the Clintons (and that includes many moderate Republicans) will come out to vote against her. And the Revolutionary Guard vote might just be enough to push Bush to bomb Iran or the Guard in Iran and thus turn the many moderate Iranians into America-hating radicals. Edwards came up with his universal health care plan before the other major Democratic candidates...so at least he is influencing the campaign in the correct direction. Edwards is the Democrats most electable candidate. But why, I wonder, no word from Salon or even the Huffington Post about the support labor threw behind Edwards yesterday? Why the blackout on this news on progressive sites like this? Go John Edwards.
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The Murdoch Factor
Eventually Democrats are going to realize that the reason the Rupert Murdoch has given Hillary so much money is 1) she is great for Fox News; 2) he can so easily sink her. His Fox News and Harper-Collins publishing house will eat this up. Anyone want to bet on how many Vince Foster, Whitewater, Monica, Jeniffer books will be published between the primary and general election? Hillary is the one Democrat that Republicans can beat. Polls taken now are not reflecting the Murdoch factor that will kick in after the primaries.
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djansing
Bush won because Kerry and him are pirate blood brothers and spent the night together in a coffin in a ritual which is best left unspoken.
AAAARGH!
Skull and Bones me hearties!
That election was as real and genuine as Kerry's hairdo. The one before that wasn't real either, as Mr. Gore neither wanted the office, nor deserved it. He still doesn't.
Want to lose an election? Run a candidate who is a patrician and who acts like one.
People actually like pirates.
YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!
We would rather have pirates running things rather than patricians. The patricians know this and give us want they have taught us to want.
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Tired of the slander
Hillary is the best candidate, but she does have strikes against her. She's a woman, which is probably the biggest of all.
We know the republican party is going to come out dirty, like with the Swift Boat slander, which was untrue. But they throw the crap on the wall and know that some of it will stick.
There have been Hillary haters since she was first lady. I've asked some why they hate her so much. They'll say she's a b*tch...good argument dudes! They'll say she is too ambitious...now when did that become a bad thing, unless you're a woman.
I can't see voting for Obama or Edwards with their pie in the sky thinking and bulls*it. I'd go with Biden, but he's not running very well right now. I'd even pick McCain, even though I don't totally agree with him either, but he isn't running very well either.
Too bad the American public...not all...don't vote for issues but because of what they read and hear in tabloid journalism. I guess it's always been this way, we rarely vote for the brightest candidate.
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I will never vote for a bush-clinton again
Bush #1: 4 years
Clinton: 8 Years
Bush: 8 years
Hilary: 4-8 years
24 to 28 years of these folks.
And I don't trust her...is really what is comes down to.
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No Added Value
I am mystified by liberal support for a Hillary Clinton nomination. If the idea is to move this country away from a policy of endless, self-generated conflict in the Middle East Hillary is not the candidate. Her support for the war in Iraq is a deal-breaker--especially given her other hawkish positions since, like her vocal support of Israel during it's misguided attack on Lebanon and her recent vote to marginalize Iran by using the boogeyman word "terrorist". How is that better than any given Republican?
The stick she keeps beating Obama with--"inexperience"--is especially ironic to me since Hillary (and her supporters) seem to be retroactively counting her years as a political wife as a qualification for President. That is nonsense, although it is a brilliant way to take the popular perception of Hillary as a Lady MacBeth-type and make it into a positive value. But even if that unflattering stereotype were entirely true it is still dubious to count it as political experience. Does no one remember what a cluster fuck her single foray into the policy arena was?
It is hardly a secret that the Republicans are salivating for Hillary to win the nomination. But their loathing for her is strange given that she shares so many of their positions.