Yawn.
I am not a big Hillary fan. Yeah, she is a successful Senator from the State of New York, but she isn’t Presidential material. And frankly, I am not much into political dynasties. If she runs and wins, there will have been a Clinton or a Bush working in the White House all the way back to 1980.
America needs some fresh blood.
The Right Wing hates her. And from what I have been reading in the blogosphere this past weekend, there is not a lot of joy of Hillary in the netroots either. But that is the key element that makes her a losing candidate – the Right’s hate of Hillary outweighs the Left’s love for her. That is a GOTV strategy that is very bad for us. As we showed in 2006, GOTV is a must for the Left and if we can’t get enthused about Hillary, then that speaks volumes.
And here is my pet peeve on Hillary. Anyone, especially someone elected to a Federal office, who thought the war in Iraq was a good idea up until about six months ago, doesn’t have the sound judgment I require from a President. Hillary’s war hawk stubbornness is what really killed her candidacy for me.
Wrong politics, wrong time…
Did you hear the bad news? Hillary is running. Many of us wonder who are these “Democrats” who keep telling pollsters they’d vote for her? I haven’t met any of them.
No-one would benefit more from her nomination than Republ…