Posted on 10/26/2005 1:55:56 PM PDT by Millee
Frankly, I can't picture it. But many people can. President Hillary Clinton.The best way to prevent that, says former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris, is for Republicans to draft Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to run for president in 2008. And if they were the only two candidates, then what are the chances we'd have our first female president? By my accounting, 100%. If it were possible for a moment to purge Hillary and Condi from our minds and just imagine the first female presidential candidate — and running against a man — how would her campaign be run? With frequent nods to her gender-breaking role in U.S. history?
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"just imagine the first female presidential candidate — and running against a man — how would her campaign be run..."
Well for one thing, Hillary would complain that her "body space" had been invaded.
"how would her campaign be run?"
If the candidate is Hillary, she;d be treated with kid gloves -- no hard questions; no discussion of her jaded past; no violations of her "personal space"
In other words, the kind of different standards typically applied to all affirmative action candidates
I'm not too thrilled with Condi's stance on Israel. I'll reserve judgement.
I cant believe I actually watched "Commander in Chief" last night. It was so stupid and unreal. The Republican characters say things real people would never say. The Leslie Hope AG's off-cuff remarks and dissing of the Prez (for which she was fired) was ridiculous. I am glad it is rated #8 in Nielsen. That just means millions of other people besides me saw how awful the show really is last night, and it is destined to fail.
Sounds like the reporter was arguing for the beast.
I think it was rated high for the first couple of episodes just because people wanted to see what it was about (like me). They quickly found it to be trite. The characters are just unbelieveable, along with the whole premise (What president has ever picked a VP who was so opposed to his ideas?).
Yes, but the ones stupid enough to watch are the very people the show is aimed at. They are so ignorant that the perception will be planted with them that ... God forbid! ... we have already had a female president
Ignorance abounds.
Ronald Reagan, 1980?
Remember "Voodoo Economics"?
I thought about Reagan-Bush, but even there it was more Party Politics. Bush had his faction, Reagan had his and they better team up if they want to win (though any bunny rabbit could have whupped Jimmy Carter in 1980). The premise on the show is that the previous president picked her to "help with the women vote." They make it sound like she wasn't even a member of the party. Too out there.
And don't think the efforts to besmirch Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Tom DeLay aren't part of a larger plan to cripple the conservative movement making it easier for Hillary "The Red" Clinton to ascend to the White House.
Condi versus Hitlary is STILL a woman versus a man (or at least, a woman versus a, a, well, something).
Cheap shots aside, I would be deliriously happy to see Condi thrash Hillary in 08.
Why has this become a "carved in stone" given that we must have a female President just because we haven't had one before. I fail to see the intelligence in this kind of thinking (or arguably, not thinking). We've never had a Black, Hispanic, Lithuania-American, Cross-dresser, shemale,
dwarf (sorry, the little people), one-legged, blind, HIV positive, etc., etc., President, either. I know I'm being a little silly here, and women do represent over 50% of the population, but SO WHAT!! The logic just doesn't follow. If a very qualified female candidate did emerge and said some things, in honesty (har de har), that I could get on board with, I would likely vote for her. But why do so many people hold this notion that the choices for President must be fairly distributed, over time, to give every group that squeeks or squeals a shot at the office. Harumph. Poppycock.
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