Letters to the Editor
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What garbage.
Suppose all these jerks just go back and do their jobs for a year or so and then run on their accomplishments.
Why is Salon quacking about this bunch of empty suits? Slow news day, I guess.
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Call me Ishmael
Bush's Brain is Moby's Dick.
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Trippi is correct
A progressive populist white southern male Democrat would be a Republican nightmare. Go John
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Unseemly
Apparently, Edwards thinks he needs to raise money to stay alive and competitive in a primary process that the election-as-horse-race set is eager to narrow down to two "front runners" -- there's that horse racing terminology again. Possibly even more unseemly than answering his own questions about unseemliness: why are we paying Salon to read Tim Grieve playing into the destructive racing mindset?
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You're doing the math wrong
You're only considering two factors. 1) the popularity polls and 2) the Right's desire to win the presidency. You have to throw in a 3rd factor: The right's desire to take back Congress. Hilary Clinton is their best hope, not only to take the presidency but also to take back a majority in the Senate (and maybe even the house). Why? Because she is Hilary CLINTON, a name that is more reviled among right wingers than anybody short of Michael Moore. No matter how fed up the right wing base is with their candidates, no matter how badly the polls skew in Clinton's favor, the Republican party knows that their people will come out just for the privilege of voting against Hilary CLINTON. And while they are voting, they will throw a vote to their not so loved Republican Congressperson.
Neither Obama nor Edwards has this power. They might be able to stir some racist impulses against Obama and they might be able to feed some anti-lawyer frenzy against Edwards, but nobody else in the field has the power to draw out their voters the way Clinton can. If she wins the primary, we're going to have a tough time getting enough of a majority in the Senate to make any difference.
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Maybe...
Rove is attacking Clinton to show that he's afraid of Edwards because he really wants to face Edwards and not Clinton. After all, Edwards is following in the mode of the last two losers (as well as Dukakis and Mondal)--a white populist male who is more interested in selling himself than his ideas.
Clinton, let us recall, is married to a guy who actually WON--twice. She's also smart, competent, and nice, three qualities noted to be extremely absent from the current White House.
A second note: the business about Rove attacking Kerry is almost certainly bullshit. Dean was the front runner, remember? Kerry was just another body in the crowd and it was a surprise when he came out on top.
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"I'm your girl" line about fending off attacks from "the right-wing machine"
And she'll give Murdoch such a talking to the next time she goes to a fundraiser thrown for her by News Corp. Such horseshit.
Nothing will activate fencesitting republicans like nominating Hillary Clinton. Nothing. Not to mention the democrats that flat out refuse to vote for her. Rove is a complete scumbag but he didn't get an office in the Whitehouse for being stupid.
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Fencesitting Republicans?
Who are they?
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Nerdnam
You'd actually be surprised that REAL republicans have just finished vomiting for 7 years in a row and are ready to make a serious change. I'm an independent from a red state and I know plenty of them. I still can't figure out if that's a good thing or not. I can't stand the crop on either side so I'm a man without a party who couldn't give a damn what Karl Rove does.
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@kickstart
can't stand the crop on either side.
yes, I see the problem. The Republican candidates are promising to stay the course and make America even more reviled than it already is.
And the Democratic candidates are all Democrats, which must look like an insurmountable obstacle, I suppose...
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One other Clinton factor:
Liberals like me will not only refuse to vote for Clinton, but will also spend a lot of time making sure other people know that if they hate Bush, they probably don't want to vote for Clinton.
Would Rudy be worse? Maybe, but not by much. And if Clinton gets into office, that ensures that a real progressive movement won't get going until the first Republican is elected after the last Clinton term. The world doesn't have that kind of time.
Edwards could win and perhaps he'd actually be good. Except on a few issues he seems the most genuinely progressive. Maybe Obama will wake up out of his inside-the-beltway media haze and remember the activist he use to be, that could also pick things up. But if Hillary is the candidate, I will not sit out; I will try to switch others to vote for a third party candidate.
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I just hope I don't have to read Rove's focus is further evidence of his genius.
To see Clinton as a threat doesn't take a great strategist. It actually takes a lack of focus, for some reason, to see someone who makes that claim as the sole seer. Rove's whole career has been taking the obvious and claiming it as creation. Scaring others, hating the rest, in the context of a society struggling as America has over the last thirty years or so is actually a stupid thing at best.
Unless you're under the impression that the first ten years of this one-hundred-years-war redo Rove has us trapped in is a good thing.
Rove's a loser. Always has been, except in his own mind and the petrified minds of those whom he's misled over the years.
Oh, I almost forgot, this is about Clinton too isn't it?
Well, Hillary loves these attacks. Yea, that way she doesn't have to put forth ideas and suffer criticism that takes the shine off her well polished, forever triangulating, persona.
Latest Hillaryism, "The surge is working, somewhat."
Wow!
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Those numbers don't make me feel better
My concern about Hillary Clinton isn't her own negatives. It's that I think we've had enough, as a nation, of the particular degree and quality of polarization that has characterized both the Bill Clinton administration (loathed by the right and some middle) and the GW Bush administration (loathed by the left and some middle). Hearing that her negatives are no worse than theirs is hollow comfort. Living with the hatred for them has been awful!
I think we need a president who doesn't come with the built-in divisiveness, skepticism, rancor, and talk-radio fervor of the last 15 years. Though I'd love to see a woman president, I just don't think this is the right woman, unless we're all so fond of our current political culture that we want to be sure it remains, in all its vituperative glory.