Too Late to the Duck Hunt: A Farewell to Hillary

The Washington Post ^ | May 9, 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

[xJones]

So if her goose is cooked, how are we going to cook Nobama’s? He’s just as, if not more, scary than the Hildabeest

Osama's not the threat, Hitlerly is. Osama won't a last a second longer than Dukasis did. He's a pretty boy, but he has more trash in his background than a New Jersey land fill. The 'Rats are going nuts; they have they have their two favorite voting blocks, the feminazis and the blacks, going at each other tooth and toenail.

This is an excellent time to buy Orville Redenbacher stock, BTW.

[Graybeard58]

There has to be someone else making the decisions for this country. Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out who?

As a Mason, I can tell you, it's true that we run most things but we had nothing to do with this mess. Blame it on the Moose Lodge!

[mikrofon]

"Hillary, you shoulda got yerself a huntin' license..."

[fightinJAG]

Ah, ya beat me to it.

[potlatch]

[ProfessorGage]

Yes, but SHE doesn’t know that. Her sick, diseased, perverse, psychosis-addled brain will not permit her to ever realize that. She will NEVER look into a mirror and say, “You know, now is not the time for me to run. My time has passed.”

[avenir]

Nobody blows tens of millions and a priceless, likely one in a million opportunity to become president just to "position" oneself for a run years later to do the same thing all over again.

I agree, this IS her chance. She cannot accept anything less than the Presidency as long as there is a shred of, dare I say...hope?

[Ann Archy]

The Clintons will NEVER.....EVER let a Black Guy beat them....NEVER!

[Ann Archy]

But, but....she “don’t feel no ways tiard...I’ve come too far”. Yes Hillary....you’ve come too far, now GO AWAY and take that Hillbilly philanderer and your kid with you!

[kenth]

I think she's hedging her bets on strong-arming the super-delegates. If democrats truly believed in democracy, they'd be satisfied with the primary votes. Of course that's not the case, which is why we see her scheduling meetings with the delegates; to skirt the primary results.

He's right though, she really did believe she was entitled to the candidacy and the eventual presidency. It's amusing to think of the raging she's done in private because of Obama.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Speaking of the kid-for years, I’ve been telling everybody that Chelsea wasn’t like her parents, and would never seek public office, and just wanted to keep a low profile. I’ve changed my opinion. Due to the effort she’s put into her mother’s campaign, I believe now she’s about ready to get into politics-and like her mother, it will be in NY, New Jersey, or some other dem stronghold to make sure it’s a sure thing.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

She forgot-race trumps gender.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

She ain't gonna quit.

The Clinton, Inc., objective now becomes to inflict so much damage on Obama that he is annihilated in November.

Then the field will be clear for 2012.

I agree completely with that analysis. Yes, it is hugely cynical; but who would dare assert that Hillary is not cynical--and to an almost limitless degree?

I do think her post-campaign subversions will be rather surreptitious--"plausible deniability" will have to attach itself to her maneuvers, so that she will not embitter the party chieftans to her--but I feel sure that she will be capable of pulling it off.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Obama will never make Hillary his Veep. Not in a million years. After enduring the Clintons’ dirty tricks all this time, he’ll know better than to bring Bill and Hillary into the White House with him (where they would undoutedly scheme to promote themselves at Obama’s expense at every opportunity).

Exactly. Besides, I doubt that Hillary would have any interest in the position. When George H.W. Bush ran successfully in 1988, it was the first time in 148 years that a sitting vice-president had attained the presidency. In other words, the vice-presidency is not generally a useful vehicle for the purpose of arriving at the presidency. And the presidency is surely Hillary's one burning, lifelong ambition.

[Defiant]

She’s better positioned than Ronald Reagan when he took it all the way to the convention and nearly knocked Gerald Ford off. And no one gave thought him a bad person for it.

[fortheDeclaration]

The Clintons will NEVER.....EVER let a Black Guy beat them....NEVER!

Well, they just did!

[Enchante]

The cankles won’t sing just yet.....

I can’t decide whether she’s just playing out the clock or whether she’s waiting to “go nuclear” on Obama just after the last primary????

Suppose she did have some major dirt, and needs to appeal to the Superdelegates to push Obama aside...... she might actually prefer to wait until the primaries are finished so there would be no distractions about upcoming primaries..... she would blow up Obama’s image and then say to the Superdelegates “Look, folks, if our voters had known this 4 months ago then everything would have been different, but now it is up to all of YOU to make the right decision and save our party”

[Enchante]

"the vice-presidency is not generally a useful vehicle for the purpose of arriving at the presidency"

Unless the President dies in office, which is why Obama would be crazy to let Shrillary be his VP...... he'd need foodtasters, and they'd need to quintuple the size of his Secret Service detail.....

[dennisw]

Clintons are old and in the way. A new generation of Democrat party loony commies wants to run things. The new Democrat Socialist commissars are from Kenya and Chicago's south side

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After all that has happened in the campaign, will Democrats rally around Hillary in 2012 if she tries again?

If they don't, Clinton, Inc. will make sure the Demagogue candidate loses in 2012 as well.

The Clintons are about the Clintons. Period.