It would be a mistake to think that Hillary’s campaign against Obama is over. She and Bill both realize that if McCain wins, she would be the likely Democratic nominee against him in 2012. At the age of 76, McCain might make easy pickings. Hillary’s argument to win the nomination would be simple: I told you so. Her warnings that Obama was unelectable would have proven to have been prescient and Democrats are likely to feel chagrined that they rejected her in 2008.
How will the Clintons undermine Obama? Not by any overt statement. In public, they will appear to be his biggest fans. Hillary does not dare incurring the wrath of Democratic voters if they feel that she abandoned her party’s nominee in the general election. But the Clintons will do what they do best: they will hog the spotlight. By speaking on Tuesday and Wednesday, this former first couple will spread themselves over the convention, usurping media, taking face time, and making the convention appear, for its first three days, as a Hillary Clinton gathering.
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dmorris/2008/dm_0814.shtml
I still don’t think she has a chance in “her future place of residence”.
The argument that somehow the democrat voters will reason that she was the best choice because of Obama’s failure doesn’t hold up.
The Democrat voters place all their collective futures on feelings. Not fact-based reasoning.
The candidate they will swoon over must be a “visionary”, a “leader in the field of ideas”. ( plans are optional)
No matter how you slice her, (?) Hillary is still just a battered wife of a hillbilly politician. Her own party has moved on. I believe she is simply taking a last trip down Sunset Boulevard. “I’m ready for my close up Mr. DeMille”.
JC