I have always doubted that Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2008 but, quite honestly, I have never had the cajones to go on record with a prediction. Six years ago, I’d had similar doubts she’d run for the Senate and you see where that got me.
Her run for the presidency will move the Clinton scandals in the 1990s onto the front pages again. Relitigating Monicagate, travelgate, socks-the-cat-gate and the rest could suck up all the air. A more latural fit for the First Lady would be as first female Senate majority leader. Talk about stature:
Friends of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.
The former first lady longs to return to the White House with husband Bill as consort. Only last week she told television viewers America would be led by a woman one day. “Stay tuned,” she said.
First, however, she has to win the election. Some Democratic party elders — the American equivalent of the Tories’ “men in grey suits” — say Clinton may back out of the race of her own volition.
“I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate,” said a leading Democratic party insider. “She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it.”
“Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.”
Sez who that she is the frontrunner for prez ’08? IMO, if she is our candidate, get ready for four more years of a Republican presidency. Her presence on the ticket would bring out every misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, rabid right religious, and insane wingnut out of the woodwork to vote against her. It would be a republican landslide and democratic disaster.
While I hope that I fit none of the above categories of irate voters, I would be forced to abstain from voting should “Hil” be the Democrat’s Best Pick and finally just “give it all up!”