Hillary Clinton for NY Governor as "consolation prize"? Newsweek is asking this...

[cascadiance]

I was posing this as an idea last week here on a few threads when I was thinking the same thing that Jonathan Alter is posing here. Sounds like Bill doesn't like it though she's thinking about it.

Perhaps she'd have her power thirst quenched by getting the New York governorship which is now opened up and get a lot of added party support for her doing so.

I think an added benefit of doing this might be that RFK Junior might be more inclined to use this as an opportunity to endorse Obama for president (if Obama solidifies his opposition to strip mining like he stated the other day contrary to Hillary's support of it). That way, he'd still have the senate seat open to him even if Hillary weren't to become president.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/129399

Hillary’s Consolation Prize?

Some Dems float the New York Statehouse as an option.
Mar 28, 2008 | Updated: 2:48 p.m. ET Mar 28, 2008


Jonathan Alter

Some Democrats terrified that their bloody primary campaign will doom them in November are floating a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton: governor of New York.

The travails of New York Gov. David Paterson have opened up a new potential career path for Clinton, according to well-informed Democratic Party insiders who refused to allow their names to be used when discussing contingencies. They want her to consider the option if she concludes after the April 22 Pennsylvania primary that she cannot overtake Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton, while fully committed to continuing her presidential campaign, was said to be open to discussing the idea, while Bill Clinton rejected it out of hand.

With former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani now reported by the New York Post to be weighing a race for governor, voters could see a Clinton-Giuliani matchup after all.

Paterson, a former state senator and lieutenant governor, succeeded Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was forced to resign earlier this month when he was caught in a prostitution ring. A legally blind African-American with plenty of friends in Albany, Paterson has admitted to extensive drug use when he was young and to having had several extramarital affairs, including one with a New York state employee. The governor has denied using taxpayer money for the affairs, but new rumors are swirling around the scandal-weary state capital.

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[MADem]

1. Give it to Obama--he'd be a great governor! Hell, he could rent the Clinton's house

to establish residency, and NY has a long history of welcoming people from other states in leadership roles (after all, Obama started out in HI, moved to IL, he'd be perfect for NY--like Bobby Kennedy, or HRC, as examples).

[democrattotheend]

2. Stupid comparison. Obama's not a carpetbagger.

Obama spent most of his adult life in Illinois. He had lived and worked there for 15 years before running for Senate.

[MADem]

5. I suppose if you don't become an adult until you are almost thirty, that's so.

But my point remains--there's nothing wrong with carpetbaggers in NY.

They like talent, you see, and don't attach a pejorative connotation--like you seem to do--to the word.

NY is a state made up of mostly immigrants--they have the most diverse city in the nation.

You think RFK should have stayed away, too?

:eyes:

[Cha]

3. And New York gets another

stained Governor.

[cascadiance]

4. Bill? He says he doesn't want it? :)

[Cha]

8. Yeah, I musta been

thinking of him when I came up with that adjective. :(

[dkf]

6. Yeah New Yorkers inflicted the rest of the nation with Hillary.

They should be saddled with her as rough justice.

[Mooney]

7. I'd rather just get Spitzer back. So what if he leaves his socks on during coitus?

Ha ha, I kid. No, as a NYer, I find this ridiculous. Paterson has been in office less than two weeks and they're already sharpening their knives for him so The Anointed One can have an entire fucking state as a consolation prize?

What a load of horseshit. The United States is not her all-you-can-appropriate buffet.

[DarienComp]

10. another NYer saying "no way" to this idea.

[cascadiance]

11. So is this a way of saying that she's toast if she'd try to run for senate again?...

[DarienComp]

12. who knows...

she'll probably win again if she runs, but not by the kind of landslides that she's enjoyed in this state so far.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He was on MSNBC last night

with this.

A shame that after what happened in NY, they are already plotting the downfall of the current governor in order to accomodate her highness. :eyes: And the man has barely been in office a couple weeks. IMHO, although I am not a NYer, I think it is insulting and disingenuous to start smearing the current governor, who happens to be African American and legally blind (and the first for that state). And don't let me get into the ugliness that may result in going this route of falsely enhancing personal issues that were put out on the table for transparency purposes, in order to insert another person there.