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Sure sounds like that’s what they’re trying to do:
Some Democrats terrified that their bloody primary campaign will doom them in November are floating a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton: Governor of New York.
The travails of New York Gov. David Paterson have opened up a new potential career path for Clinton, according to well-informed Democratic Party insiders who refused to allow their names to be used when discussing contingencies. They want her to consider the option if she concludes after the April 22 Pennsylvania primary that she cannot overtake Barack Obama for the party’s presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton, while fully committed to continuing her presidential campaign, was said to be open to discussing the idea, while Bill Clinton rejected it out of hand.
With former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani now reported by the New York Post to be weighing a race for governor, voters could see a Clinton-Giuliani matchup after all.
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Under the scenario sketched out by the insiders, serving two years as governor would give Clinton the executive experience to become the prohibitive favorite for the 2012 Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton believes that Barack Obama may well lose this year to John McCain, who would be 75 in 2012 and a possible one-term president. Clinton would arguably be better positioned to replace McCain in the White House as a governor than as a senator.
The Senate might not be as attractive a job for Clinton as it once was, given that she would be surrounded by Democratic colleagues she believed betrayed her by supporting Obama (among them: Sens. Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Chris Dodd and Bob Casey). If Obama is elected president, she would have to carry water for him in the Senate. If McCain wins, it would be more of the same for Clinton in opposition to a Republican president. Being governor of New York might be preferable even to being Senate majority leader-another scenario being floated about Clinton’s future.
So in other words, it’s a bribe. Hillary gets out of the race, they elect her Governor of New York, and everybody is happy. Except New Yorkers, but they obviously don’t count.
What I find most amazing is that Newsweek actually allowed this to go to print. Because implicit in the article is that McCain will defeat Obama. That is by no means certain.
Unless, of course, Obama has some more episodes of his wife talking. Or pastors preaching “hate whitey!” Or more shady land deals coming to light. Or…well, you get the idea.
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It might be amusing to see Mrs Clinton, after losing the nomination to one black man, decide that the path to success is to challenge another black man, this time an incumbent office holder.
I’m thinking that they might even withdraw Mr Clinton’s “first black president” award if she did that!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pmA good view of how things could turn out, I haven’t spent much time thinking about the prospects of what Clinton or Obama would do after the general election. Being that Queen Clinton isn’t going to step aside no matter what, I think that she would demand to be Governor or Senate Leader anyways by being a Demo front runner in the election.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pmI also agree that McCain could possibly be a one term President, and that having someone like Romney as VP would be good for the future of Conservatives.