Why do so many people think that Hillary Clinton would somehow save the Democrat party?
When running in ‘08, she ran a very depressing negative campaign, and this magnified the high negatives she had in the polls.
Before that campaign even got going, she had registered some of the highest negatives ever recorded in presidential polling.
If somehow Hillary runs, it will remind us all why we don’t like the Clintons. All of the Clinton scandals and baggage will come back into prominence. Do they really think that America is ready to vote for Hillary Clinton because man liberal types are upset with Obama? The conservative and more moderate voters are not going to be eager to vote for Hillary instead of Obama. They are going to vote Republican anyway.
There is as much danger in overestimating the enemy as there is in underestimating it. The GOP -- and a lot of folks here one FR -- in a blind panic made the mistake of overestimating Hillary in 2007. At the time, some of us were trying to get folks to keep their cool, step away from the heat of the moment, chill a bit, and remember that Hillary's popularity was and has always been manufactured by the MSM (as was Obama's), and that it was a mistake to choose the GOP candidate based on "the one who can beat Hillary."
Hillary's popularity is STILL manufactured; it's an illusion -- the majority are repulsed by her. There'd be only two ways she could win: vote fraud, or plurality from a third-party split. Either way, the majority of Americans would be downright furious at her being there, and Congress would swing hard right.
Fear is a good thing when it serves to alarm folks into recognizing a threat. Once fear has accomplished that, however, it should be shoved aside so that measured thinking can step up. Decisions should be made OUTSIDE of fear. Decisions made from a place of fear are almost always bad decisions. Decisons made from a place of courage are almost always going to be smarter decisions.
I hope conservatives have learned from history and avoid indulging the same "fear of Hillary" that they did in 2007.
I do not think Hillary will “save” anything. She will be as bad for the country (albeit with slightly different slants) as Obama. But the Democrats are going to start scrambling pretty soon...and Bill is testing the waters IMHO. That’s all.