Posted on 02/09/2011 7:29:24 PM PST by USSR Didnt Fall
Over Labor Day weekend, in between failed fishing excursions and burgers, my friends and I played a popular party game: Guess the likely 2012 presidential field.
We tossed around the usual suspects - Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty - and we agreed that if things don't get considerably better over the next two years, any one of them could give President Obama a run for his money.
But for my friends - three thirtysomething left-of-center moderates who voted for Obama in 2008 - only one name would make them consider pulling the lever for someone else: Hillary Clinton.
It's a ridiculous prospect. Clinton has insisted she will not run again. She's been a loyal soldier for Obama, and challenging an incumbent doesn't usually work out too well for the challenger.
Still, the unlikely prospect of a Clinton-Obama faceoff got me thinking. Maybe she could run. And more to the point, maybe she should run.
Sure, I'm a Republican who can hardly be trusted to offer objective advice to Democrats I've long lambasted. But believe me when I tell you, two years of Obama has even me seeing Clinton in a much different light than in 2008, when I thought the only thing worse than a new President named Obama was another one named Clinton.
My friends aren't the only ones who think that Clinton should reconsider her vow not to run again. A dentist from Chicago has paid for a slew of Hillary for President ads that tout her as "one of the most admired women in our nation's history."
Even though I disagree vehemently with her political world-view, he's right. Just as I've taken issue with some of the liberal attacks against Sarah Palin, I challenge conservatives to acknowledge that Hillary is exactly
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LOL Hillary Clinton is no self made woman. She is a crook and liar and has grabbed on to coattails notably her husbands to climb to the top most likely with threats.
Hillary, like Mitt Romneycare, is tied to an earlier prototype of the disasterous healthcare take over that Americans loathe more every day.
I think a younger candidate will emerge from the liberal woodwork.
What does that make SE Cupp naive or worse?
“...But believe me when I tell you, two years of Obama has even me seeing Clinton in a much different light than in 2008, when I thought the only thing worse than a new President named Obama was another one named Clinton.”
They have worn out the welcome for one radical leftist. So they want to clear the way for another to wear her welcome out. The damage they do before the public figures out what they are is incalculable.
It’s this kind of sophomoric nonsense that puts “C” Cupp’s political immaturity on embarrassing public display. I know she means well but she simply doesn’t have the experience and depth to understand that Hillary is just another Alinsky acolyte. A Hillary Presidency would just be a more subtle but oppressive extension of the Obama dictatorship.
He and his side kicks were also snickering and making fun of “birthers” the other day. I can’t stomach him any more.
Oh ok, she doesnt know better than try to trash a conservative leader to get headlines? Listen to the interview and her line of questioning please lets not play the victim card here. Look at how excited she was on twitter that Santorum went after Palin. She is a fool.
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