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Hillary Gets Hot, But For Democrats She’s Lose-Lose
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 10, 2005 04:30pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Observer article.
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"Don’t get me wrong. If I were Hillary Clinton, I’d run for President, too. I’d figure:
Everything real about the 2008 race is, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, unknowable at this point—but hey, my knowables are at least as good as anybody’s. I could raise a fortune, exactly $0 of which I’d have to spend on name recognition. Granted, my name is mud among many voters, but three years from now, the Republicans may have made such a spectacular disaster of everything that their nominee’s name will be fertilizer. I have personally walked the obstacle course of two successful Presidential races, a practical advantage that is not to be underestimated. Sure, there will be currently unimaginable gaffes and mortifications, screw-ups and scandals along the way—but nobody, nobody, has one-eightieth of the practice at turning those into white noise, sympathy magnets or live ammunition that I do. As for those who go on and on about what a “polarizing figure” I am, they should be put to bed with milk, cookies and a storybook in which the main character “brings people together,” for they have clearly not noticed who’s been winning lately, and how. By virtue of becoming a plausible contender for the White House, Mister Rogers would be a polarizing figure. Thus, the job of the candidate is to draw more people to his or her pole—or at least away from the other guy’s.
Come to think of it, my reputation in some parts as Pure Evil in a Pantsuit may do me nothing but good: If the American heartland is anything like upstate New York—or, please God, the national-level Republicans in 2008 are anything like the New York State ones in 2000, and limit their entire message to the premise that I am one scary bitch—I will get major points just for not spitting fire. And anyway, if I don’t run, what will I do? Stew in the tepid juices of junior minority membership in the Senate? (Which, safely assuming my re-electio |
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