Letters to the Editor
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This is not a letter of support for HRC
But please, can we not put so much emphasis on Iowa and NH? Thay are so much less relevant than they would like to be.
As evidence, please see "Bush v. McCain, 2000"
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Is the presidential election in January?
That's what it feels like.
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It's just her.
It's really that simple. She isn't honest. Her "views" (if she can be pinned on anything) are too calculated. Her attacks are repugnant. Her strategy is cynical and underhanded. And she doesn't have a shred of her husband's charisma.
People are looking more closely at her and they are tuning her out.
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Hillary's problem?
Voters just found out that they're voting for Hillary and not Bill.
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Other theories...
a. Obama and Edwards ... and Biden, Dodd and Richardson ... have somethign to offer. Hillary is a smart, clever, hardworking woman...but it has become clear that so too are Obama and Edwards, not to mention the others.
b. Campaigns driven by inevitability self-destruct. Her "advisors" are too busy determining what offices they want in the west wing than having to deal with boring old retail politics.
c. When you get to know her on the stump, you don't like her. In Iowa and NH they are seeing close-up what the soaring music and noble naration of political ads disguise. She's not that interesting, and more than a little condesending.
d. The public. They want something more than "back to the future." They recognize that other candidates are talking about different futures....
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Theory No. 7: Hillary Is A Not Very Likeable DINO Whose So-Called "Experience" is a Myth and Whose Primary Claim on the Nomination is Her Marriage to a Man She Should Have Divorced Twenty Years Ago
That, and the fact that the most inspirational candidate since Kennedy and gifted orator since Lincoln appeared on the scene just in time to spoil her coronation. Sorry about that.
Fired up, Ready to go!
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We All Need Someone We Can Lean On
And if Hillary wants to,
Well she can rest her weary head right on me.
We all need someone we can cream on,
And if she wants to,
Well she can cream on me.
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It's Hillary's fault
I agree with gezelligtexas.
Also I just think that with all the years of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, there must be this desire to flush all that baggage away and start fresh.
I can't tell you how happy I'd be to not have to see Bush/Clinton crap dominating our political news.
Plus how many people think about even if she was the best candidate, and she won, do you think any repub in government is going to do anything but make her life a living hell?
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The media and a small minority of elites who championed her
kept doing everything to shove her in front of our faces for the past 18 months.
now reality has caught up and, lo, the programming is not sticking.
few like her. many more dislike her. many despise her.
this is just the reality.
Ron Paul is the ONLY remotely credible candidate stumping out ther. And you can see that he represents a threat to the elites, as he is being marginalized by the same media championing the fraud Clinton.
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I hate the primary system
It really doesn't matter what the preferences of the majority of Democrats are because only the opinions of those in the first few states actually matter. Do Iowa and New Hampshire really reflect the Democratic party's membership? If California and New York picked our party's candidate it'd look a whole lot different.
I'd rather have a national primary campaign instead of letting local politics from Iowa and New Hampshire determine the Democratic candidates.
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SThe struggles of Hillary
Hillary has no one to blame but herself. When she makes remarks such as Obama is "too far left" she exposes herself for the middle of the road candidate- please -everyone -person she is.
I'm not even an Obama man...my choice was between Edwards and Clinton but with that one statement, Hillary has lost me!
We need someone a little to the left. What is so wrong with that position?
We do not believe in capital punishment.
We do not believe in torture.
We believe in decent health care and economic opportunity for every American.
We believe in choice.
We believe.
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Anointed?
The fact was she was the front runner before she opened her mouth - and we took that and ran with it since most of us just want Bush to go back to Crawford asap.
I think there is a real person under all the calculation but we cannot get to it. He main draw is that she is electable and no one feels the country can handle another GOP presidency at the moment, maybe after they jettison the religious right and American Enterprise Institute.
Besides there is a great hesitancy to put the Clinton's back in the White House - while most remember Bill fondly (especially with the village idiot Bush running around these days) we are exhausted and want a respectable president who would do the people's business with a minimum of drama.
Let's face it as well, most are concerned if Obama is electable if, as more time passes, the answer to that question becomes yes then HRC is finished.
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She had a marquee name
She's a big name. She's soaring in the national polls because people know her. As the campaign moves on and the other candidates familiarize themselves with thepublic (in the local primary races) her numbers start to fall. People see other options to the "big name." And frankly, as she's out there actively campaigning people are beginning to remember why she was so disliked. Add to that Bush/Clinton fatigue.
She started out strong because she was the only game in town. Now she's not, and her negatives are beginning to bubble up to the surface: dodgy and calculating, questionable honesty, shrill, negative in a low sort of fashion, corporate shill. She's quickly wearing out her welcome...and the entitled attitude puts alot of people off.
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the GOP is finished in 2008
Iran is not longer a threat. Iraq is relatively stable. and the US is going into a slow deep recession.
the GOP is finished in 2008
this leaves two options.
1. Whoever wins the Democratic primary becomes president, unless there is strong disgust with the frontrunner. Look for Edwards as Pres/ Obama as VP. Or maybe Edwards/Clinton.
2. Should Ron Paul win the Repub nomination (fat chance) and continue to spread the message, he will clinch the presidency. More likely RP will not be selected to run as Repub, will defect to his own party, and has a shot at winning as the dark horse.
To prevent this eventuality of an RP win, look for the Unified RepublicanDemocrat Elite Party to perpetrate another 9/11 equivalent event on the US this coming year.