I also remember Hillary on Russert (I believe right after we had gone into Iraq): "It is the Policy of the Democratic Party to take out Saddam". Damn...they were going to claim the war was "their idea"!!
First, Hillary will not get nominated by the Democrats. The manufactured consensus of her mendicant followers does’t change the picture, which includes Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, who are very experienced, reasonably intelligent politicians, who’ve been around the block perhaps too many times, but wouldn’t be in the race if they believed she would ultimately win. They appeal to their Base with rhetoric but can sit and have a civilized conversation with the President after taking it to the envelope all day long in calling him names.
“Just politics,” the President says. They know he means what he says and says what he means even if they disagree and even if their Base doesn’t believe anything the President says.
They simply believe, as I do, that Hillary can’t run the Marathon, and that the Party Bosses in the states and everywhere will sense the danger of her getting creamed as bad as McGovern, along with what the pollsters say she will do as she clings to the rest of the ticket’s coattails as she slips over the cliff. She’s toast, and will be the last to get the news. This was true before and after the “debate debacle.”
So Joe and Chris see the rest, and wizened Mike Gravel from the 70’s, Dennis the Menace from Burning Man, and Obama.
They hate Edwards, knowing he’s an ambitious lightweight and a little dangerous. Watch for the scramble when Hillary gets shot down in Iowa, NH and South Carolina. She could be beaten by three different candidates in three different states. Perception will dry up, and the Elite Left will abandon her life she was on fire. All she’ll have left is her assortment of poor Social Workers and Guidance Counselors. They’ll gradually turn to Obama, and the Party Bosses will start to scramble. The Party will crack up, or come together when the one who remains who is smart enough goes Right on Immigration. That person will do well on Super Tuesday. If that person doesn’t surface, it might go to the convention.
And Republicans will need to act fast to keep Immigration as their issue, with the same and only consensus Left and Right in this country comes into play. It will unify most of the Republicans - It will divide most of the Democrats.
This could be a very good year for the Democrats, and Hillary is a slippery one. She’s gotten it handed to her since 1993. But the World’s Smartest Woman is showing itself a myth.
Now, on Iran? I’m afraid that will become an issue, perhaps by perception the biggest issue before the President leaves office. The planning for a Blitzkrieg in Iran is well underway. This President might now want Immigration front stage as an issue, and he certainly has made his opinion clear about a Nuclear Iran.
It will be the Cuban Missile Crisis of our time, either on his watch, or the next guy’s.”