Letters to the Editor
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Enough Hillary certainty, already
I'm getting a little tired of the buzz that Senator Hillary Clinton WILL run for president, that she WILL be nominated. Let's take a look at the record of the pundits:
In 1976 CBS commentator Bruce Morton told us that Ted Kennedy "can have the nomination any time he wants it." The editor of the Atlanta Constitution openly sneered at the idea that Governor Jimmy Carter would run for president.
In January of 1980 Tom Pettit, of NBC, said "I would like to suggest that Ronald Reagan is politically dead." When Reagan was overheard telling what we call "a Pollack joke" on the campaign bus in New Hampshire, the pundit class concluded there was no way he could ever win.
In 1988 the buzz was that New York Governor Mario Cuomo would come out of nowhere to become a last-minute popular Democratic candidate and lead the Democrats to a win.
In 1992 the pundits told us that nobody could unseat George H.W. Bush after his victory over the Iraqi army in the Gulf War.
The presidential elections are two and a half years away, during which time a lot of unforseen things can happen. Focusing so narrowly on Hillary Clinmton because, well, because, well, because she MUST be the candidate blinds everybody, supporters and opponents alike, to what may really happen.