Lord help us- Hillary on the horizon

Subject: HILLARY CAN WIN BUT MUSTN'T
HILLARY CAN WIN BUT MUSTN'T
By DICK MORRIS

December 6, 2006 -- Now that Hillary has dropped the coy pretense of
indecision that she used to justify her reelection to a Senate seat she
no longer wants and has told friends that she plans to run for
president, two questions present themselves: Can she win? And what kind
of a president would she be?
She definitely can win ... and probably will. She is uniquely able to
expand the electorate to bring in millions of women, mostly single, who
will vote overwhelmingly for a female Democrat. The feminization of
poverty, long decried by the left, will finally lead unmarried women to
show up at the polling place and vote their short-term economic
interest and vindicate their gender bias. In 2000, only 19 million
single women voted. By 2004, their turnout rose to 27 million. With
Hillary in the race, the single-female vote will probably go up to its
proper ratio of the adult population - 33 million votes.
Can white men outvote single women? Despite the intensity with which
white men tend to oppose Hillary, they can't vote twice.
The enthusiasm that will grip many Americans - women in particular
- at the cultural implications of a woman president will probably
sweep through the primaries and cause many to overlook Hillary's
flaws and dismiss her defects. The generic of a woman candidate will
prove so attractive that millions of voters will overcome their
objections to the specific person who is running.
Her mastery of the establishment of the Democratic Party, her vast lead
among ex-officio delegates - many of whom have received campaign
contributions from her coffers - and the celebrity draw of her
ex-president husband will prove hard for a mere mortal to overcome.
But should she win? No way!
Those who know both Hillary and Bill well and are willing to speak
frankly in public realize the fundamental differences between the two
and grasp how his abilities are the counterpoints to her defects.
He is intensely creative, constantly turning issues over in his mind
seeking new solutions. She rarely has a new idea but specializes in
advocacy - the rote recitation of talking points.
He has an instinctual feel for people and an uncanny ability to read a
room and know what everyone in it is thinking. She is obtuse in her
understanding of people and ham-handed in her approach.
He cares deeply about being loved. She seeks popularity as a means to
the goal of getting elected but otherwise marches to the beat of her
inner, liberal drummer.
He distrusts ideology, and his innate perfectionism finds all belief
systems flawed. She swallows the ideological line of the guru du jour
hook, line and sinker. During the healthcare years, it was Ira
Magaziner who pushed her buttons. When she decided to back the Iraq
War, it was the generals who paraded before her committee. She is
vulnerable to a cultish adoration of the guys with all the answers.
He lets the give and take of politics wash off his back. A critic is a
potential convert whom he hopes to charm over to his side. She has a
rigidly dichotomized view of friends and enemies, demanding total
loyalty and public silence from the former and maintaining a ruthless
determination to destroy the latter. She is a Democratic Nixon to those
whom she perceives as her enemies.
He is a moderate by instinct, seeking incremental change. She devotedly
and deeply believes in a European-style socialism in which government
takes much more of our national income and offers a far wider array of
services and benefits.
He'll raise taxes when he has to. She'll increase them just to
redistribute income.
He's most like Eisenhower, Kennedy and Bush Sr. - feeling his way,
acting with caution, and skeptical of all advice. She is more like LBJ,
Nixon or Bush Jr. - determined to charge ahead and do what she thinks
needs to be done, the torpedoes be damned.
And finally, he knows who he is and, except for his private
shortcomings, is not ashamed to let it show. She constantly seeks to
reinvent herself and rigidly maintains an almost totally inaccurate
image in public of what she is really like in private. He has little
discipline. Hers is iron. His caution is innate. Hers is a learned
response to what happens when people see who she really is.
He made a very good domestic-policy president. She would be a disaster
at home and abroad.

On 7 Dec 2006 15:26:05 -0800, "duty-honor-country"
wrote:

Subject: HILLARY CAN WIN snip

Here we go...after getting his ass handed back to him by being
completely wrong about the mid-term election, he's going to go on a
"Hillary jag" now.

The joke will be on Noodles and his fellow right wingtards when
Edwards gets the nomination! The polling numbers tell a story here.