Posted on 10/05/2010 5:08:53 PM PDT by RobinMasters
If the economy’s as flat next winter as it is now, isn’t it a damn near certainty? Obama’s approval rating will be deep in the toilet and Republican candidates will be energized to take on a weak incumbent. His only option will be to jolt the electorate and convince them that term two would be different from term one by welcoming the Clintons aboard. Electing the first woman VP — and anointing her as the likely nominee in 2016 — would help bring home women voters who’d grown tired of Hopenchange and would give Hillary Democrats a reason to turn out. And as much of a headache as it’d be to have Bill around the White House again, his high favorable ratings could only help Obama. Besides, Hillary’s proved herself to be a team player thus far; if Obama had any worries about her backbiting behind the scenes when he named her Secretary of State, they’re surely assuaged to some extent now.
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It will be a glorious victory to defeat Obama/Hillary in 2012. We'll knock them both off at the same time. YES!!
“if Obama had any worries about her backbiting behind the scenes when he named her Secretary of State, they’re surely assuaged to some extent now.”
Do we laugh now? Does anyone remember a few weeks ago when Hillary basically came out and made an announcement contradicting Obama? But she doesn’t really need to. She’s sent out Bill to stab O in the back quite a bit now.
No, Hillary has been doing her little dirty tricks for a while now. She’s not to be trusted. I’m sure O knows it, but I’m not sure he knows what to do about it.
They (Obama and Clintons) can fight back too. No, if they want to dump Biden, all they have to do is ask the convention to dump him.
What I am now envisioning is that this is going to take place prior to the November 2010 election in order to bring in the voters. The scary thought is that it could actually work out in the next couple of weeks that she would become VP and then Obama would resign due to ‘illness’. They would hope that the voters would rally to Clinton and re-elect the dems who are in serious trouble in order to give her a chance to succeed. With any luck, that won’t succeed and she’ll have to work with the republicans as did Bill Clinton if she wants a shot at actually getting elected.
She’d be the first woman president and hopefully she would work to make it a successful presidency, even if it means going against her socialistic views. At this point, I don’t think that any dem could run for the presidency in 2012 and get elected. That being said, Hillary would stand a better chance running as an incumbent than any dem would have running against the Republicans after another two years of Obama.
Best guess—the dems have seen the writing on the wall and Obama is on the way out. They’re going to risk it on Hillary and sooner rather than later in an attempt to salvage something out of the November 2010 elections.
Woodward is a Washington insider and this is what the inside the beltway crowd is thinking about the 2012 race.
The Washington insiders know that Obama is a loser and they want Hillary to ride to the rescue and save Zero. Actually there’s nothing to say that Hillary will help Obama. But this is the best that the keepers of “conventional wisdom” can come up with to save Obama. I think it’s a pretty lame idea.
What’s ironic is that these same Washington insiders threw Hillary under the bus for Mr. Hope and Change in 2008. If I was Hillary, I would tell them to go pound sand.
It was not Clinton's economy it was the republican Congress economy. Congress holds the purse strings not the president.
No way Hillary will play second fiddle to this idiot. I am pretty sure she and Bill still really hate him.
Maybe Hillary can borrow some of Nancy’s botox.
If Obama is so weak as to think he needs to replace his VP, as if Biden is the weak link, I’d think Hillary would recognize this and run against him.
I’ve thought for some time that Obama is more suited to be a VP. He’s not a decision maker but a speech giver and an adviser.
Obama has no intention of leaving early - he loves the perks too much.
Besides, the black community would never stand for “their guy” being bumped aside for another whitey .....
... which is why it’s so important for us that Hillary runs for the top spot in 2012, DIRECTLY CHALLENGING Obama - and starting a Democratic civil war that will result in neither getting elected!
Go Hillary!!
I’m not saying that Obama is going to have a choice in leaving, only in how he does it. I think that he’ll be given a choice of resigning due to ‘illness’ or face some serious legal issues. He’ll opt to leave office, spend a suitable amount of time ‘recovering’ and then collect lots of money giving speeches. Hillary will take over and spend a couple of years cleaning up the mess as best she can and hope that the electorate will cut her some slack. The dems will be desperate to believe that the voters will buy this idea and back her hoping that they can claim any success she has and blame everything else on Bush and Obama.
WHO is going to force Obama out, and HOW are they going to do it? Hold a gun to his head?
Obama ain’t going nowhere - a literal truth on several levels.
I’d imagine that there are those who will tell him that if they will not be able to protect him from the republicans when they take office and his only chance to evade prosecution for being in office illegally is to exit ASAP. Yes, I do believe that he’s not eligible and that he’s known it all along. That being the case, the dems will tell him to go now and that if he does, Hillary will pardon him if needs be and everybody will be happy not to have to deal with an impeachment situation. He’s made his mark, his blemish, so to speak, on history. He moves on, Hillary moves up and who knows what will happen after that? The voters may not be all that forgiving, may not cut Hillary any slack, but she’ll get her name in the history books as the first woman president. Biden will be forgotten.
This would be an extremely strong ticket. Like it or not, the hag a.k.a. Hillary Clinton, is perceived as a middle of the road, moderate individual and some democrats would go by that alone rather than vote republican.
My elderly neighbor, raised in a republican/conservative household, would vote democrat because somewhere along the way, someone convinced her that the republicans were only for the ‘rich’. She complained (she has since passed) bitterly over higher taxes, more regulations etc. but yet, would still vote democrat (communist).
She was 85. How do you change that mindset?
So, if Clinton and the marxist became united....it would be a very tough ticket to overcome. (imo)
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