Letters to the Editor
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Legends of the fall?
As a Republican, I'd like nothing better for our nominee to run against Hillary, since she has the highest negatives ever for a presidential candidate -- and also because only she can rally an opposition party still reeling from 2006. However, her performance in the last debate just may be a harbinger. And that's disappointing.
I think Newt Gingrich saw it as clearly as I did, when he commented:
“Her performance in that debate was so bad, on issues that matter so much, she may not be able to recover from it… This issue of Spitzer trying to give out driver's licenses to people (illegal aliens) at a time when your driver’s license allows you to vote — for her to trap herself into saying that creates a big wound…"
And...
"The fact that she said she’s basically sympathetic with Rangel’s trillion-dollar-tax increase — that’s going to arouse some deep opposition. The huge Democratic tax increase allowed us to win in 1994… Then, I saw in a ticker on Fox News, when Sen. Edwards said nominating her would be ‘a victory for a corruption machine’… it brings back a lot of memories of the Chinese funding scandals of 1996… It takes her winning the nomination from an 80 percent likelihood to a 50 percent. It’s even money."
Time will tell.