The Hillary Dilemma

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 22, 2007 | Larry Sabato

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Despite the breathless media reports about every jot and tittle of the Democratic contest for President, not all that much has changed in the last year. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has consistently been the frontrunner in national surveys, sometimes by narrow spreads and frequently by sizeable margins. So far she has weathered the entry of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), a far more charismatic and exciting candidate, and she has held off any sizeable gains by the other two major contenders, former Senator John Edwards (D-NC) and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico (D-NM).

The main stumbling block for Clinton has been Iowa, where she continues to trail in the trial heats for the first caucus. But no one else is so well positioned to survive an initial defeat. Arguably, her strongest potential opponents, moderates Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and former Governor Mark Warner (D-VA), decided against running, and the other formidable possible candidate, former Vice President Al Gore, is almost certainly not going to run. The other announced Democratic candidates show little sign of breaking out of the pack.

So it's smooth sailing for Hillary, right? No one questions her intelligence, abilities, policy aptitude, and experience (hey, this would be her third term!) And thanks to the deep unpopularity of President Bush and the Iraq War, won't any Democrat be favored in 2008? How can the Democrats blow this election, with all their built-in advantages?

[Sig Sauer P220]

Hillary and her liberal sheep fans think she “deserves” to be president because she is “Bill’s wife”, and its time for a woman to be president. Liberals fail to see her faults because they are drunk with Hillary Mania , she has never had a leadership job such as Mayor of a large city ,Governor of a state. Hillary has other weak points as well such as ; flip-flopping on the issues, her plans for huge social welfare programs, appeasing our enemies, raising taxes, and increasing the size and power of the Federal Govt.
Hillary Stalin Chavez

plus she’s just pure evil

[CPT Clay]

I will always wonder if the Clinton Crime Syndicate “talked” Baye and Warner out of running.

Why no one visiblly on her right?

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It seems you have a memory loss regarding Iraq. It was Saddam who was caught having his diplomats actively assisting terrorist in three other countries. It was saddam who had terrorist training camps in country. It was Saddam who kill hundreds of thousands of his own citizens during his reign. It was Saddam who was determined to acquire Nuclear and other WMD once he got the UN to remove their restrictions. Why were UN thinking about that? because he bribed many of those officials.
Why haven’t we suffered another attack since 9/11? Simple! we took the battle to them rather then wait for more attackes here like Clinton did.