Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
Rob Long is no longer alone. Bernard Goldberg just joined him:
I’m climbing out on a limb. I’m jumping the canyon on a motorcycle without a parachute. I’m walking the tightrope without a net....I am predicting right here, right now, that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2012 – yes 2012 -- challenging President Obama for their party’s nomination.
I myself remain thoroughly unpersuaded. But who knows? If the GOP recaptures the House--if Republicans win statewide elections even here in California--then I suppose Democrats in the millions might turn to Hillary after all, enabling the most intensely ambitious woman in America to claim that the Democratic presidential nomination sought her and not the other way around. Hm. I see what Rob means. If this were a screenplay it could almost write itself.
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May '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
She can make a case. "After losing in 2008 to Barack Obama, I still wanted him to succeed and Ijoined the Administration... What I saw on the inside appalled me even more than I had feared... We need to keep Democratic control of the White House but we need a competent hand..."
They're already out there saying they were robbed two years ago:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/12/video-2008-primary-election-irregularities-alleged-in-new-documentary/
Jun '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
I love your podcasts, I was listening this morning to your recent discussion characterizing the Obama administration as strangely dated, a throwback to the Carter/McGovern/Mondale era. I think a majority of voters in 2008 did want to turn back the clock, just not quite so far, what they really wanted was a return to the idyllic 1990’s era of a booming economy, shrinking deficits, and no pesky foreign wars. Moderate Democrats, independents, and even some beltway Republican types were convinced Obama would govern from the center and are now sorely disappointed. Enough to choose a new nominee? Perhaps. And if so, who better to lead us back to the Promised Land of the ‘90s than a Clinton?
May '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
Well, if she runs, that helps whatever GOP candidate makes it to November: a divided Dem Party will be much easier to beat; and someone over there will just stay home...
May '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
I have been saying for a few months now that I see a legitimate primary challenge to President Obama is a very real possibility. I don't know if that will come from Hillary Clinton, but I grow more convinced each week. If the 2010 elections are only half as disastrous to the Democrats as the more conservative predictions, the left is going to want blood. Reid will be gone and Pelosi won't be Speaker so where else will they turn for political vengeance?
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
You read it here first. I mean, why not?
Some clues to look for in the coming months:
1. A NYTimes piece about her "restlessness" and sense of "frustration" with the White House. Combined with a sense of her "accomplishments" in "improving our standing worldwide."
2. Buyer's remorse from the Left -- which has already sort of started -- that "we need a leader who can get things done."
3. A subtextual celebration of the fact that Obama has pushed his "progressive agenda" so hard, so far, that he's "courageously" risked his entire presidency.
4. The word that she's writing a book.
I'm totally convinced. She's running.
May '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
This would be hugely beneficial to the Republican Party because a revolt by Dems against Obama is the only event in the forseeable future that could possibly dismantle the African American voting block, without which, longterm, Dems would have a heck of a time consistently winning elections. Hillary 2012. Please. Please.
Jun '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
If we're essentially repeating the inept Carter years, it only makes sense that Hillary will challenge BO in 2012. Hillary's closet is a little neater than Teddy's as well. She is more qualified too. It would certainly be good theater.
Jul '10
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
I'd certainly welcome it, I may disagree with her politically on more than a few issues but it's hard to dispute her credentials--and a lack of relevant experience of any kind is what got us into this mess. I'm increasingly convinced that Palin is running, as well, and will be a much more formidable candidate than the left expects. Hillary would go a long way towards neutralizing that, not in the bastions of left-wing or right-wing America but in places like Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania--states the next president needs to win. Every woman in my family voted for Hillary...and then for Palin. Given a choice between the two, I think they'll pick experience. Two more years of Obama might make a lot of other people pick experience, too. But...because she'd be the smart choice for the Democrats, I don't really expect them to pick her, nor do I expect Obama to admit a mistake and at least offer her VP.
Re: Hillary '12? Rob Long, Call Your Office
I can't think of a substantive Obama initiative the SecState disagreed with as a candidate or subsequently. Are the Dems so far gone that a credible challenger need only argue greater competence at implementing the Party's regnant wrecking-ball ideology? Couldn't there be just a little bit of economic rethink in the run-up to electoral devastation? How about a dark horse Democratic challenger for 2012 -- someone seemingly a skosh to the right of both BHO and HRC --poised to surprise us in 2012?