Thank goodness the wacko left hates her as much as the GOP does…
Podhoretz: Why Hillary Clinton Is So Dangerous
By: Carl Limbacher Jr.
“The mischief Hillary could do in the White House would be far more devastating to the country than anything she and Bill cooked up in the 1990s.” So says New York Post columnist John Podhoretz in his new book, “Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President Unless …” “We have every reason to believe she would be a far more destructive president than her husband was,” he argues. Podhoretz predicts that Mrs. Clinton will “use her time in the White House to advance frankly liberal or leftist ideas, at a time when the left poses a colossal threat to the nation’s economic viability and its national security. She will try to run for office from the center but govern from the left.” Those concerned about keeping America safe in a post-9/11 world, he says, “have every reason to be panicked about the prospect of Hillary’s ascension.” Mrs. Clinton will chip away at President Bush’s national security programs “until they are so compromised they will spring as many leaks as a New Orleans levee during a storm surge. “The judges she appoints,” warns the Post scribe, would all be “left-leaning at best [and] would be inclined to use their gavels to rule out of order any and all aggressive efforts at terrorism prevention.” Still, what Podhoretz describes as her “Trojan Horse” strategy may succeed, unless the GOP does more to smoke her out on key issues that will expose her as a dyed-in-the-wool left-winger.”The views that she almost certainly holds but does not really talk that much about are very much out of step with what the American presidential electorate wants,” Podhoretz told NewsMax. Republicans are kidding themselves, he warns, if they think the old questions about scandal and character will be enough to keep Hillary out of the White House two years from now. “I think it’s useless” for the GOP to pursue that angle, the “Can She Be Stopped?” author told NewsMax. “A lot of what we know about her and were disgusted by her … is eight to 15 years in the past.” “That’s a very long time in politics,” he said. “You’re talking about things that were exposed and became matters of controversy more than a decade before she’s running for president. All of her worst dirty laundry has been aired already and she’s still viable.” Besides, the Post columnist explained, the old scandal-scarred Hillary won’t be running in 2008. “She’s shown the most important quality a successful politician can have: She’s learned how to adapt. She’s learned from her mistakes. And she’s even managed to make her mistakes work for her.”She’s older, wiser and cleverer - and therefore more dangerous.”As for her Senate re-election race this year, Podhoretz says New York has turned too blue to stop Hillary - and the national GOP should conserve its resources for the main event in 2008. “Let’s face it,” Podhoretz told NewsMax, “she beat [Rick] Lazio by 12 points … It’s very doubtful a Republican is going to win any statewide office this year or for the foreseeable future. “There’s no sense in [the GOP] burning resources in a state like New York right now.”
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May 12th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
I have the sneaking suspicion that this is going to be the Great GOP Rallying Cry(tm). How (if at all) that differs from the ChimpyMcHitlerCo (or whatever the hell it is) Dem Rallying Cry ™ remains to be seen. I don’t think it’s going to be all that effective.
So the question: when the GOP nominates McCain and the Dems nominate Hilarity, who’s base will hate their candidate worse? And will third parties get more than 1% of the vote?
I’m still betting the answer to the second question is in the negative.
May 12th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I just don’t think McCain gets the GOP nod. I’m thinking George Allen although he has been quiet.
Just think El B the individual who has his name on this facility would be considered “left of Center” by today’s standards.
Funny how things change.
May 12th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
I sincerely hope that McCain is not the Republican candidate in ‘08. I respect
him for his service to this country, but I’ve never forgiven him for McCain-Feingold,
and I would have a very difficult time supporting him in a run for the Presidency.
I think the GOP would be making a huge mistake if they back McCain. On the
other hand, I would vote for George Allen in a nano-second, as I would for any other
true conservative who respects our Constitution.