I have nothing personally against her. I think she is a very smart woman and, compared to a lot of the cranks who have run for president in my lifetime, she is clearly qualified. In almost every measure, she is better than the current occupant of the White House. (But then, so is a rancid fish.) OK, bad example.
But still, in order to get to 1/20/09, we have to get past 11/4/08. And I don't think Hillary is the one. There are legions of Republican Clinton-haters who, seven years after Bill left office, snarl and slaver when his name is mentioned, like Pavlov's deranged dog Spotski. If you think that is irrational, then imagine that in 2016, Jeb Bush ran for president and think of what your reaction would be to another goddamn member of the Bush family in the Oval Office.
Same thing, folks.
There are a lot of conservatives who are willing, at this point, to either help put a Democrat into the White House to punish the GOP or, at least, will sit on their hands on November 4th. But if and only if the Democrat is not a Clinton. If Hillary is the nominee, we are basically spotting 30-40% of the vote to the GOP right from the day of the convention. And given that the Republicans are using "voter ID" laws to disenfranchise a significant number of likely Democratic voters, we cannot afford to spot those goons a single person.
Hillary is probably better qualified than either Obama or Edwards. (Richardson is the most qualified of those who survived Iowa, but he has little chance of winning.)
But "most qualified" got us nowhere in 2000 or 2004. This is about winning, in spite of all of the racist and dishonest tricks the Republicans will trot out in order to try and steal the 2008 election. If we wind up with a outright fascist (Guiliani) or a religious zealot (Huckabee) or a power-crazed robot (Romney) in the White House in 2009, it will be because Clinton ran on the other side.
The Democrats can win this time. But not with Hillary.
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Thing is, they're gonna haul out the hate machine no matter what. Look at Kerry. Kerry was pretty much the most inoffensive person under the sun. Nobody knew who the fuck Kerry was until he ran as the Democratic candidate with the most war hero credentials. But when it was clear he had the nomination, shit, by the time the right wing hate machine was through you woulda thought that *Kerry* was the guy who dodged the draft by cringing under his daddy's skirts, not Dear Leader, and he sorta looked French and all that stuff, y'know?
Thing about Hillary, is that anything they can say about her, they done said it. So if they say more today, people just go, "yeah yeah," and move on. I mean, c'mon. 8 years of being the #2 target of the Reich Wing Hate Machine (her hubby being the #1 target of course), there just ain't nothing that the Reich Wing Hate Machine can do to her. Just look at how they tried to throw the election in New Hampshire against her with all that "hysterical woman" bullshit, after months of running the "robotic soul-less woman" bullshit against her. You saw how well *that* worked, eh?
They are going to try and trot out the hate machine. Yeah, so what? But with Clinton running, they will also trot out lots and lots of voters.
As for Kerry, the GOP stole Ohio, and thus, the election. Bush has not won a national election yet.
But why put things close enough to let them steal a third one?
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