If Hillary loses nomination will she finish her Senate term?

[tularetom]

For years she has more or less taken granted that she would be the Democratic nominee for president and ultimately the likely 44th president of the US. She had a lot of psychic energy invested in that assumption and she was practically being anointed by the press at the beginning of this campaign. Now it's becoming increasingly apparent that this just ain't gonna happen. When the cold hand of reality slaps her upside the head, will she be able to adjust to being a senator again? Will the loss of her dream be such a letdown that she is unable to finish the job the voters of NY sent her to do just 2 years ago?

I don't think she will. IMO she never intended to complete that term. I think it'll be too big a letdown for her and especially for bubba. Especially if Obama goes on to win the general election and both houses of congress go Dem big time. He's in there for 2 terms and by 2016 she'd be almost 70.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Who cares?

[Texas Hill Country]

2. of course she will

[BenDavid]

3. you net she will and be not surprised if she goes against Reid

for the Majority Leader's position......Where all things will have to come through her...uh huh

[movonne]

8. I think she is making too many enemies with the dem party...she

may stay but I don't think it will be pleasant..

[shadowknows69]

10. Good luck with that now that she's tried to destroy her own party.

We're not in the habit of rewarding traitors

[Texas Hill Country]

13. this is such divisive bullshit... it is attitudes like this that are destroying the party. eom

I am not calling out you in particular, it is a general sentiment on DU and it's wrong.

[jasmine621]

18. "They" are the traitors. With Obama at the top of the Dem ticket

the WH will be handed to the Repukes.

[irish.lambchop]

15. I think Senator Dodd will be the new Majority Leader. n/t

[MattBaggins]

16. yeah let us know how that works

out for her

[bluestateguy]

4. She'd make a fine governor of New York

or US Attorney General.

[shadowknows69]

14. Oh Hell no!

[MattBaggins]

17. As a New Yorker

I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you.

[Cha]

23. Yeah, for the rudy ghouliani

crowd.

[Frances]

5. I can't believe I am wasting my time replying to such an inane

post.

Don't we have better things to do: like attacking John McCain so that our nominee, most probably Obama, will win?

And if you think we won't need every single Dem senator for Obama to be a success, you are so wrong.

It won't do Obama a bit of good for Guiliana or someone like him to replace Hillary.

[sallyseven]

6. She is not a quitter and if she doesn't

get the nomination she can go back to the Senate and fill out her term. She will stay involved and will run again. She will have a front row seat to watch obama fall on his face.

[PBS Poll-435]

7. Yes!

Yes! Yes!

[dansolo]

9. Yes - but I don't believe she will run for re-election

[shadowknows69]

12. Probably not

New York never meant shit to Hillary really. Except to get her buddies in the military industrial complex tons of our tax dollars. Google Hillary Clinton, Fort Drum sometime.

[goldcanyonaz]

11. What happens to Obamas seat when he loses the GE?

Since we're talking hypotheticals...

[LSparkle]

19. 50/50 chance ... she may run against Rudy for NY Governor ...

if Patterson somehow doesn't finish out Spitzer's term.

NY media has been CRAVING that rematch forever, and it'd be too much
of a temptation for her to resist.

[Bucky]

20. "If"?

I refuse to respond to such wild hypotheticals

[tekisui]

21. WHEN Hillary loses the Nomination.....

Not if.

[GoesTo11]

22. She's running as if she doesn't care

If you were her, would you rather sit on some boring committees or trot the globe, and be treated like royalty and like an important leader?

[Carrieyazel]

24. Obama isn't winning the general, so that could salve Hillary's wounds

She'll still be serving with Obama, two loser Democratic senators who weren't able to stop a Repuke in a time when the Grotesque Old Party is in putrid disarray. Maybe they'll look at each other and shake their heads in disgust from time to time in the well of the Senate chamber.

My sense is that Hillary finishes out the term, and by then she'll get uninterested and tired and very bored about the whole thing, ("I'll never be more than a lowly Senator!") and then retires from the Senate in 2012.