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Hillary in ’08?

The conventional wisdom is that she’s the front runner. For me the prospect is appalling, and reinforces why I feel so alienated from the prevailing mentality of the Democratic Party–but…

The conventional wisdom is that she’s the front runner. For me the prospect is appalling, and reinforces why I feel so alienated from the prevailing mentality of the Democratic Party–but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.  Anybody want to argue for or against?  How do people feel about Gore making a second go of it?  After all, he did win in 2000.  Kerry? Please God, no. Obama? too early.  Edwards? I could live with him.  Dark horses?  What do people out there think?

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  1. robert the red Avatar
    robert the red

    Elliot Spitzer.

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  2. MMcG... Avatar
    MMcG…

    Obama: Dream candidate, but, yes, too early.
    Clinton: Every Republican’s Democratic dream candidate.
    Edwards: My choice. David Brooks recently provided an instructive contrast with Kerry in the NYT.
    Landrieu: Democratic southern woman candidate with broad recent exposure. Don’t know much about her. Anyone out there have a read as a darkhouse pick? My thought: she’s shown the capacity to cultivate the sort of historically Democratic base that most contenders go out of their way to alientate: culturally conservative Catholics and working class voters.

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  3. Charles Avatar
    Charles

    I don’t think Landrieu. Her initial performance after Katrina was pretty bad, so full of praise to her fellow politicians in the midst of the disaster that one of the reporters interviewing her shamed her on national television.
    Gore would be a great candidate: freed from being beholden to anyone; with a serious moral authority; against the Iraq war early and thus immune from having to nuance his message to death as Kerry had to; and finally a quite credible national security candidate. If only he has picked up a real sense of humor in the last six years. . . .

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  4. Charity Hogge Avatar
    Charity Hogge

    I was reading an article in Time last week about how McCain & Clinton were collaborating together on much … and speculation (far out, there it was, in black and white) … what a ticket that would make, huh? I do think that it would be a mistake on Hillary’s part to run in ’08; 2012, maybe. The article concluded with “we’ll let them decide the order of the names on that ticket” and either way, I’d support it.

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