No. There is one thing, and one thing only, that will make "mainstream" journalists override their natural allegiance to the DNC, and that one thing is the chance to Make History (and thus Become Famous and Win a Pulitzer in the process). And what better way to do that than to change the course of history itself and take down a presidential candidate? They turned on Algore ... the reporters covering his campaign couldn't STAND him because he treated them so badly. They all ended up voting for him anyway, but there were only a couple hundred of them; their reporting convinced millions to vote Bush. And Algore might as well be Santa Claus compared to the way the Grinchess would baldfacedly manipulate, use, and step all over her coterie of useful idiot propagandists.
Mark my words. If she is ever stupid enough to run, it will be 60 days max before the floodgates open and her entire evil life starts getting splashed across the front pages of every newspaper and web page in the country.
And that's before we even begin to look at all the other obvious machinations that would take place in a Hitlery campaign, such as an ultraenergized GOP gassroots base that would fight this as if Florida 2000 was a hot-dog eating contest.
Hillary Rod-damn Clinton will never, EVER be elected president.
Kind of agree with your thinking, however being "drafted" at the Democratic convention will reduce her exposure. Such a draft also reduces the amount of time she has to spend on the issues and face to face interviews and debate.
Your ignorance of the American media is astounding.
Boy, are you lost.
There is only one thing that matters to the owners of the corporate media empire and that is POWER, the ambitions of individual journalists notwithstanding. Any reporter who tries to run that story will be crushed like a bug.
Amen Brother.
Hillary has no chance in an environment with World War 3 going on, and people aware of the imminent dangers.
There is no Democrat that has a snowball's chance against Bush in 2004 unless Bush goes insane and abandons every principle that has shown since 9/11. Not very likely in my book.
Even if we face trying times ahead and even if there are setbacks, Bush will come out looking good because he is a leader, and he has character. I am proud that he is our President.
I agree 100%! Not to mention that hillary clinton is our best fundraiser. We had a RAT Congressman (our only one) here in OK had to return two $1,000 checks to ms. clinton's PAC because polls showed it could cost him an election if he kept them.
Running Ms. Clinton would bring back all the bad that came with Clinton and once and for all the RNC would be able to unleash everything they have on the clintons.
I say -- bring her on! Want to send the clintons packing, once and for all!
And anyone that thinks Kerry and Lieberman are going to go quietly should think again!
You give them too much credit. There were many instances when they could have asked serious questions during her Senatorial run and I never heard a peep out of the 'tough (ha) NY Press'. What makes you think things will be different? Frankly, with so concentration on her favorable polls week on end, it's as if they are asking her to run.
As one poster asked, 'are you on crack?"
The newsmedia will LOVE this woman in the race. It will affirm all their ideas and ideals (not to mention morals), just like they slavered after and covered for her felonious husband.
Hillary Rod-damn Clinton will never, EVER be elected president.
That's a bet I would never take, not in a million years. There are vast hordes of "Americans" who would vote for her because she is...
1. Hillary!
2. a woman
3. a Democrat
4. being touted day and night by the media and will be granted 'star' status by them
5. her voters are anxious to prove how up-to-date and tolerant they are (at least to themselves)
6. her voters are terminally stupid, morally obtuse, illegal, lazy or simply criminally inattentive - and that is a huge number of available people!
7. any political opposition will be personally, thoroughly trashed by the ubiquitous and powerful circles of 'informed opinion' in the usual Clinton way
8. she will have tons of money and legions of unprincipled promoters, advisers and talking heads in her slavish corner
Nope. That's not a bet I would take. Perhaps she might not beat an ascendant GW Bush in 2004, but she wil beat almost anybody else either then or any other time, just because she is Hillary! and it is her appointed destiny.
I heard the same thing said about the "tough" New York media during her Senate run. If the national presstitutes gave her and Slick a pass the first time, they'll do it again.
Run Hillary, Run! (bumper sticker on the front of my car)
Also, we have to keep in mind that in 2000, IGore is said to have won the popular vote (they claim he did, anyway). That means that there are millions of brain-damaged RAT idiots out there still who would vote for her and the RATS just because they are RATS.
She won't be president, but not because of the media - she simply is too polarising a figure, too many people have a deep loathing of her for it to work.
Furthermore, she's a retread, a has-been. She reached the apex of her power when Weird Bill had his first term.
Regards, Ivan
I sincerely hope you are right. Her husband got elected TWICE. The 1996 election was after Somalia, Filegate, Fostergate, Travelgate, and he still won by a landslide. If the electorate kept her husband power after all of those felonies, I wouldnt put it past them to elect hillary if the economy was still slumping. Mind you, I hope Im wrong, but this woman is to be feared.
I sure hope you're right, and I wish I could share your optimism.
My fear is that you are partially right. The media does love to take down a presidential candidate, but better still is to take down a sitting president. Especially if said president is a Republican, won his office by the thinnest of margins, and has been confounding their utopian socialist desires at every turn for the past four years.
I expect Gulf War II to be short, triumphant, and to bring the kind of accolades to George W. that his father enjoyed in Gulf War I. I also expect the leftist shills in the media to labor tirelessly to erode his favorable numbers just as they did to George H.W. Bush. If the economy is sputtering along their work will be easier, but expect them to "work harder than they have ever worked in their lives" to destroy W, to paraphrase William Jefferson Airplane Clinton, regardless of how happy and prosperous the nation may be next year.
Given a choice between gunning for Hillary! and venting their seething, corrosive hatred for President Bush, what do you think they will do?
Your proposition has already been proven false many times over when it comes to the clintons.
The best example is the fund raising story. The Riady family, John Huang, coffees, the attendees at the coffees, Buddhist temples, "returned" contributions, no controlling legal authority, naval bases in Long Beach, the taking of the fifth, fleeing witnesses back to China, and on and on. All reported reluctantly, perfunctorily, minimally, and minimized, "explained", and excused.
That's just one story they could have topped Watergate with, but they looked the other way.
You are as wrong as can be in your prognostication.