Romney Says Clinton Likely 2008 Nominee

[sarcasmo]

You know these Republicans really want Hillary to run. I think we all can read between the lines why she shouldn't they think they can easily beat her.


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I think the most likely to get the nomination, of course, is Hillary Clinton," he said during a Christian Science Monitor-sponsored luncheon with reporters on Thursday



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_el_pr/romney_clinton

[colonel odis]

1. they're more than likely afraid of her, which is why they posture

that way.

[KamaAina]

2. Well, that's that. Mitt has spoken.

Sorry, Kerry, Feingold, Warner, Edwards and the rest. You heard the man. If Mitt says it's Hillary, it's Hillary.

:sarcasm:

[0007]

35. How did Massachusetts vote for this little Utah prick?

[saltpoint]

3. Mitt Romney is a monstrous little puke. Sarcasmo, you're right

on who the Republicans want at the top of the ticket.

I think if Gore is persuaded to run (and this remains a possibility), Senator Clinton's campaign will do no better than 3rd in Iowa and possibly as far back as 6th.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Romney who?

I say we go ahead and have the primary anyway.

[Boo Boo]

5. Apparently Mitt wants to run against Hillary. /nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Oh please don't make me run against Hillary!

Yeah, right. They're really, really hoping that the Dems are dumb enough to nominate her.

[Emillereid]

6. Before it's too late! Al Gore in '08!

Hillary is a LOSER!!!!

[Hardrada]

21. She's a LOO-OO-OO-SER

Someone should come up with a Hillary song. We will not go out of our way to make her welcome in Iowa.

[IA_Seth]

31. Word! n/t

[cyberpj]

8. Wes Clark is THE ONLY ONE WITH THE PROPER CRED for this one. nt

[Auntie Bush]

15. I second that! Without a doubt that's true.

[cyberpj]

20. And yet DU appears to continue to push Clinton, Kerry or Gore!

I just don't get it.

[truebrit71]

33. I third that. I supported the General in '04 and will do the same in '08.

Want another republican in the WH in '08?

Nominate Hillary.

The right-wing media in this country will fall all over itself re-visiting the Clenis issue, and much, much more....

[Ilsa]

22. Yes! Please, Wes, Run! eom

[WI_DEM]

9. Thank you, Mitt, but we'll let our primary voters choose our nominee

We know all you repukes want Hillary, but we may have a couple of things to say about that.

[hatrack]

10. Who is this faux Yankee, and why should we give a shit?

Having the best hair this side of Rick Perry still doesn't mean you know SHIT, Gov. Asshat.

[karynnj]

13. His hair is not even that good - he doesn't even have the best

hair for a MA politician. Kerry shiny silvery hair beats his by a mile. Even Kennedy's white hair looks better. I don't even know the congressmen.

[sidpleasant]

11. Romney will be the GOP candidate in 2008 if ...

... every other Republican in the US is killed by bird flu. No way will red state Bible - thumping Tabliban Repukes (i.e., their base primary voters) ever vote for a Mormon. He's practically a pagan in their eyes.

[BlueManDude]

12. He'd like to see it because he even a slug like him could beat her

i'm not even convinced she's gonna run.

[waiting for hope]

16. If she knew what was good for

the party, which she seems to have forgotten many of the principles of, she would stay a Senator...

[BlueManDude]

30. she may reach that conclusion eventually

A Hillary for prez campaign would be an exhausting daily re-hash of all the so-call "scandals" of the Clinton years. I don't imagine she's under any illusions about what a grind it will be and maybe (hopefully) she decides it's not worth it. God the RW would be so pissed if she declared she wasn't running.

[Neshanic]

14. Ye gads! Hide your X-Boxes gang. There's gonna be a new sherriff.

And double goes for you young people with the Ipids, Ipiddles or whatever those nasty little things are that download the sex and violence from the internets.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Why does the GOP want Hillary to become our nominee?

Why should we listen to them at all?

[kysrsoze]

18. My Ass. Not if I have anything to do about it

[napsi]

19. I'm sorry but Hillary will lose and lose big. We need

someone with enough "balls" to take on the right and use the "bully pulpit" to explain our agenda and the crimes committed by the present administration. Shove it down their throat and forget the frigging polls..........FOR ONCE!

[wordpix2]

24. Al Gore!!!

[scarface2004]

23. satan likely gop candidate in 2008!

will be elected for eternity!!

[Hyernel]

25. What he fuck does he know.

The best Repuke fundraising ploy is to say that Hillary will be the nominee...

Then...everybody who has been conditioned over the years to hate Hillary...but even they don't know why...will have a conniption.

Wesley Clark for President.

[bunny planet]

26. Ever get the impression they want Hillary to be the Democratic nominee.

Let's not give them what they want.

[Dogmudgeon]

27. They hate her. WE hate her. The only people who like her ...

... are The People.

Damn them!

:evilgrin:

--p!

[ronnykmarshall]

34. Speak for yourself ..

I'm not a part of "WE".

[Best_man23]

28. Repugs will be very disappointed

If Hillary says "I'm not running for President" in 2008. In some respects, I think they are counting on her to run, since they do not have a real candidate of their own on the horizon.

[JerseygirlCT]

29. LOL and he knows this b/c he's so well connected with the

Democratic party, right?

[dmallind]

32. Jeez do you think he might be looking at these....

..I mean he's gotta be SO full of crap to think, at this point and with the information we have now, that HRC would be the nominee.

I mean anybody would think she had support that outstripped any other candidate by 50% or more!


http://www.pollingreport.com/WH08dem.htm

Yes yes yes I know it's 1/06 not 3/08, but it is for the other candidates too. Who, and more importantly HOW will they, take over this commanding lead in DEM support for HRC?

Do Dems not know Gore? Kerry? Heck even Clark? Nope - we know them for sure. We've voted for at least two of them most likely.

So why, in toto, do we (DEMS as a whole, not uber-progressives in an echo-chamber forum) support HRC to that huge a margin over them?

Damned if I know personally. Don't agree with her on all things myself. One thing she has shown though is a killer instinct - a willingness to fight hard to win. That alone is an awful big hurdle for the others to overcome, as we've seen to our inestimable cost what happens when your nominee lacks that. Add to that name recognition among the apolitical masses that nobody can match, plenty of connections in the party machinery, and the best pure campaigner in decades for a husband as a built in adviser and it's going to be tough going to take that top dog spot if she decides she wants to hold onto it.

Really - who can do that and how can they? Dean tried energizing the progressive base. He did great until everyone outside the [progressive base got to vote. Clark tried the dignity and military credibility route and couldn't even beat Kerry, who has all the drive and passion to campaign of a slug. What's he gonna do against the Clinton/DLC powerhouse (except sign on as a Veep candidate maybe)? Kerry? Loser-tarred. Gore? Same. Not that either deserved to lose and I like many of you have suspicions about whether they really lost or not anyway - but it's not DU posters they need to be convinced of that - it's the apolitical and unmotivated who just see them as past losers who couldn't get it done when they had a chance.

[neuvocat]

36. She should try and run for a little while

and then quit her campaign before the Iowa caucases start. That would just give a lot of those double-talking GOP'ers a stroke.