Re: Hitchens on the Clintons - Fool Me Thrice

On Jan 30, 12:45 pm, Cece <ceceliaarmstr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 3:05 am, Jane <JaneH...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jan 28, 7:59�pm, Pogonip <nobo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ian wrote:
Many Dems, myself included, have been disappointed by the Clintons'
behavior in SC - so much so that I won't vote for the missus now. The
World's Greatest Writer thinks we should not be surprised:

http://www.slate.com/id/2182938/

Ian

If the Republicans have the sense to run McCain, the Democrats may yet
blow this election. �Fortunately, they're unlikely to do that. �Mittens
fits their platform much better.
--
Joanne

     Eh.

     I think Hillary would lose to any Republican except Huckabee--and
the Republicans are not going to nominate Huckabee.

     Obama, though, could win against just about any of them.

     Hillary, though, is a lightning rod.  There are people in the RP
who hate her the way some people on the DP side hate Bush, with that
kind of white-hot rage completely impervious to reason.

       She'd bring out every single evangelical voter, many of whom
are poised to stay home this round, because they consider her the next
thing to the Devil Incarnate and FAR worse than her husband.

        But she'd also bring out most of the RP libertarians, who
consider her far too authoritarian.

       And, even worse, she'll make people like me--libertarian
Democrats--stay home.  I think the woman is a conservative in the only
way "conservative" makes sense to me--she's heavily invested in the
idea that she has the right to control other people's behavior.  She'd
have us all having safe sex and eating our greens instead of going to
church and saving it until marriage, but I'm not interested in having
my government tell me that EITHER  is the way for me to live.

       Bleh.

        On the RP side,  Romney could win an election--however they
feel about  Mormons west of the Mississippi, he's pretty popular
here.  McCain might, but he's LESS popular here than he is
otherwise.   Huckabee would be for the  DP what Hillary is for the RP--
a one-man recruiting bonanza.

        I think the big trouble for the DP in htis election is the
fact that it turns out that the Iraq war hasn't been the kind of big
issue everybody thought it would be.

         That, and the fact that dislike of  Bush doesn't seem to be
translating into an overall dislike of Republicans.

         Jane  Haddamhttp://www.janehaddam..com

You believe just about the same things I do!  And we're on different
sides politically.

If the candidates turn out to be Clinton and Huckabee, I'll have a
problem.  Which is worse?
Clinton and McCain or Romney, I'll vote R.
Obama and McCain or Romney, I don't know.
I want Fred!


Wow. Different strokes, I guess, but I'd never vote for McCain or
Romney over Hillary.

And I sure don't want Fred.

Mary
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