Posted on 10/03/2002 11:21:07 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Hillary Clinton is the great White (House) hope of American womanhood, and in 2008 she'll be swept into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd declares.
In a column "Can Hillary Upgrade?" devoted to the proposition that American males are "biologically" unsuited to hold political office or leadership positions, Miss Dowd propounds a solution: elect a women with an ample supply of the testosterone the males she cites (Torricelli, Andrew Coumo, Tom Daschle, and Ari Fleischer) have been shown to lack.
That woman of course is Mrs. Clinton.
"The arena is full of powerful men in touch with their powerless inner women," the pugnacious Dowd wrote. "And yet, surrounded by famous men puddling under pressure, American girls are still doubtful about the prospects of a woman becoming president." Citing a USA Today poll 40 percent of the women said they would not see one within 10 years and a grim 14 percent "not in my lifetime."
Shocked at her sisters' faintheartedness, Miss Dowd asks "Are those 14 percent unaware of the Clintonian relentlessness of the junior senator from New York?"
Miss Dowd, journalism's archetype of the species of womanhood once known as "common scolds" sets the record straight for her female readers. Hillary, she says, will go for it in 2008, and those dastardly Republicans with their feet firmly planted in the middle of the vast right wing conspiracy will create the circumstances that will allow her to walk downtown to the White House and reclaim all those lovely furnishings the cold hearted government wouldn't allow her to purloin when she left there in January 2001.
That Hillary is gung ho for the race is shown, Dowd says:
Because she's "staying away from Al Gore's kumbayah corner. She's muting any doubts she has about a war on Iraq - "... she is not articulating her angst as loudly as some of her Democratic colleagues...and "knows that any woman who hopes to be elected president cannot have love beads in her jewelry case. As a result she'll back GW if her decides to take out Saddam: "I know a little bit about what it's like on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, making these difficult decisions," Hillary told Tim Russert.
She has gone all out raising money for fellow Democrats, using her House as NewsMax.com reported Monday as a fund raising gimmick. As Dowd says, she has "put Democrats in her debt by handing out fistfuls of cash from her PAC." Mrs. Clinton and her sometime husband have it all planned out. According to their scenario either John Kerry or John Edwards or Al Gore, "if he can find any Democratic donors" will be the sacrificial lamb in 2004" to a popular wartime president Bush.
In the meantime, Mrs. Clinton will hunker down and play the role of a dedicated senator "for a few more years." She will shed the liberal label, "veering away from the left on issues like welfare and bankruptcy."
Dowd reveals the script written by her supporters:
"In the flush of patriotism and empire-building, the Republicans take over the Senate and keep the House this fall. Then President Bush wins his war on Iraq." This of course makes Dubya "and his inner circle.. more arrogant."
White House political experts Carl Rove, "pushes through the most reactionary agenda since the Congress of Vienna, packing the courts with young right-wingers opposed to abortion and all regulations. Congress, too, gets carried away with an ultra-conservative agenda." "The maniacally centrist American public craves another correction. Right, left, right, left. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. Yup. In our lifetime."
Note: We left out the one Republican Dowd cited as lacking the requisite maleness she seems to crave: Gov. Jeb Bush who she faults for crying every time his daughter gets arrested, Pray tell, Miss Dowd, what do you expect him to do, shout hosannas?
But then, you have to understand that Dowd wouldn't begin to understand how anybody would react when a beloved but drug addicted daughter gets busted. Dowd doesn't have a daughter and since she's getting long in the tooth it's doubtful she ever will.
Somebody should tell the Dowd woman that it has been truly said that "only strong men cry." The weak ones are afraid to.
But the Clintons & co. cheat. And they kill. Yes, she could win. Not fairly of course, but she could win because she will stop at nothing to do so. She and that husband of hers too.
Ideally, we need to learn more about Condi. As time goes, if we begin to see more and more info about her, you can bet that it is a 'get to know you' strategy, setting her up as a contender.
I have every problem with putting another criminal Clinton anywhere near the White House.
It is disgusting that people toss this idea around merely for their own entertainment.
Which one gets to play the "Poppa" ?
The Times may be able to convince the stupid that Karl Rove is some kind of right winger, but he's not by any means that. Every exiting President loses popularity towards the end of his term, but there won't be any swing to the left strong enough to bring Hillary Clinton to power. Everything depends on the economy, but if it's weak enough in 2008 or 2004 it will attract other and stronger candidates.
But still, Mencken (or was it W.C. Fields or P.T. Barnum) was right about not underestimating the gullibility of the American people. Having chosen Clinton twice, they might well make the same mistake again. Every ex-President looks alike to the forgetful populace after ten years, and, as with Nixon, even a failed President comes back into favor, on the grounds that he was a "fighter" not a "quitter," even if he did in fact quit -- or should have.
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