Hillary Clinton is Unelectable

...and here's why (poll courtesy of the Washington Times). At times, almost half of those polled have declared they can't stand the shilly-shally, always-hedging senator from New York — to an even greater degree than they dislike the other candidates. How do you build a White House bid on that? You can't, unless you're selfish enough to let your personal ambition trump the good of both your party and the country. Which, with Clinton, may well turn out to be the case.

The Democrats' only fighting chance next year is Barack Obama. My best guess right now is that it'll be a three-way race between Giuliani, Obama, and Ron Paul. Paul will run as a third-party candidate, siphoning a couple of million votes away from the GOP, thereby giving Obama the presidency.

Other than having Paul himself in the White House, and noting that we're apt to see somewhat less nannyism and big-government initiatives from Obama than from any of the other Dem candidates (again, the difference may be small), that scenario actually strikes me as the (second-)best way forward.

Comments

[Phelps]

Your spam filter is way too aggressive. This is the second thread that I have been unable to post a substantial response to because of it.

[Gabriel]

So fucking true. And thank God the people of Iowa are seeing it that way too.

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The democratic party is dumber than the Republican party.

The public is pretty fed up with Bush and the Repubilcan party. So much that almost any Democrat could have the election on a silver platter. Problem is that the Demo front runners are unelectable, Obama and Clinton.

Basically handing the election to McCain.

dumb dumb dumb.