Posted on 11/03/2003 6:08:32 AM PST by Theodore R.
Hillary is running
Posted: November 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
I'm going to go way out on a limb today and predict with nearly 100 percent certainty that Hillary Clinton will seek and win the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency in 2004.
I know others have speculated about this.
I'm not speculating. I'm forecasting. I'm prophesying. If I were a betting man, I would be placing the farm on it.
Why am I so sure?
The latest polls bear out what others before them show – the nomination is hers for the asking.
The most recent survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University, shows Clinton getting 43 percent of the vote if she enters the race against the remaining nine Democratic dwarfs. She polls higher than Wesley Clark, Joe Lieberman, Richard Gephardt, John Kerry and Howard Dean combined.
In other words, this would not be a contest if Hillary entered the picture.
That alone must be a very tempting prospect for someone as ambitious as Hillary Rodham.
How many politicians would not seize an opportunity like that?
I don't think she can resist – which explains the way she's talking recently.
She's getting vitriolic against President Bush. She's going postal. She's going ballistic. She's even more shrill than usual.
Last week, just before her high holy day of Halloween, she said "the pillars of democracy are shaking" due to Bush's need to avoid "political embarrassment" over the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the Iraq war.
It was her sharpest attack yet on the president's handling of foreign policy. Clinton suggested Bush was trying to hide troop casualty figures and was using national security as a cover for failures. She said the White House's refusal to hand over documents to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks "unnecessarily raises suspicions that it has something to hide."
"We must always be vigilant against letting our desire to keep information confidential be used as a pretext for classifying information that is more about political embarrassment," she added for good measure.
I guess she wants an open administration like the one her husband ran.
Clinton said Bush's foreign policy has been marked by an "aggressive unilateralism."
"We now go to war as a first resort against perceived threats, not as a necessary final resort," she said.
But there's one clincher for me. There's one fact that persuades me more than any other that she is running. And that is her consistent denials.
Hillary doesn't know the truth. It is as much a stranger to the junior senator from New York as sunlight is to a vampire.
And, from a practical standpoint, she's still got time. She will need to declare her candidacy soon – this month, in fact – to meet filing deadlines in November and December for the critical early primary elections.
Analysts believe the nominee will be selected, for all intents and purposes, by March 2 – an election night Super Tuesday, with primaries in California, New York, Texas, Ohio and eight smaller states.
But realistically, the race will be over the day Hillary enters the race – and that is coming any day.
Oh, and by the way, Hillary has just managed to get herself scheduled as the featured speaker this month at a major Democratic Party event in Iowa – the location of the first caucuses where delegates are chosen.
So don't be surprised. Remember where you heard it. Hilary is running. She will be the nominee of her party for president in 2004. The rest of the also-rans are merely jockeying for a vice presidential nomination.
Only a person with a death wish would make Hillary their V.P.
That's why she'd run as Veep. Minimal cost of failure, should she lose, it's CLARK that lost, not her...
She's already registered to run. Her "friends" signed her up months ago. Plausibly deniable, 100% Clinton...
Or someone naïve, or blinded by power lust. If we've learned nothing in the last decade or so, we should have learned that the clintons are master manipulators, and can be VERY charming and convincing when it suits them...
1) A weak Democrat primary field. So weak that people will practically beg her to get in the race.
2) Continuing bad media from Iraq over the next 2-4 months.
She clearly already has #1 and unless we make some very visible progress in Iraq she will have #2 as this will be a long hard fight (which we all knew) and the media and the American people are impatient.
The economy may be improving but it's a slow improvement IMHO. We need the economy to start creating jobs by the end of the first quarter.
If she gets into the race she will definately need someone like Clark to give her national defense/military gravitas.
I bet she voted for Bush, because a Gore win in 2000 would have meant waiting till 2008...or a small accident like the wings of AF1 falling off or something.
She cares nothing about the Senate or New York. The Senate is designed to inoculate he against the charge that she 'never held high elective office'.
Woe betide the feller who has this woman as his Veep. He'd better keep a food taster and wear body armor, if you get my drift.
--Boris
Deadlines don't matter.
(And I'm not saying that because I'm from NJ where Lousenberg somehow managed to replace Torricelli after our laws said he could not.)
The Democrats can nominate whomever they please at their convention. We're so used to the conventions being a mere formality after the primary process that our eyes have been diverted from the Commodities Scam Queen's path to power. I do not believe she will run in any primaries. But she will do whatever she can to prevent one person from locking up the nomination by winning enough primaries to have a majority of the delegates committed to vote for that candidate on the first ballot. Then she can ride in on her Black Broom and walk away with the nomination. It saves a lot of money and it avoids the messiness of having to dodge questions for as long as possible.
ML/NJ
My prediction: Over the next year the economy will rebound enough to ensure W is reelected. But the Dims and the liberal media will constantly snipe at the administration over the next 5 years. The momentum will never exist to fight terrorism in the Middle East the way it needs to be done. The surrounding countries will continue to support terrorists unimpeded, and those terrorists will increase their operations against Israel, Iraq and any government that the US succeeds in placing there. The positive advances in Iraq will be steadfastly ignored by the media and the sheeple will become ever more dissatisfied with the media defined "quagmire" there. Hitlery will then run and the republicans will loose the white house in 2008. God help us.
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