Here's the promised link to the Hillary for President story, and here's the money graf:
For the record, our new senator has said she was not interested in the presidency. So has former Vice President Al Gore, who might be rethinking his own future. Not for the record, though, Hillary and her advisers, including her husband the ex-president, her money men and pollsters, will meet shortly after Labor Day -- Sept. 6, I hear -- to discuss whether or not she should go for it. It is a decision that has to be made earlier rather than later because of November and December filing deadlines for the early primary elections that will almost certainly (and very quickly) identify the 2004 Democratic nominee.
That's what Richard Reeves reports, and you already know what I think.
Someone needs to dig up the footage of Hillary answering "Never" when asked by a reporter on the street in NY when she would run for president. It was during the Senate campaign, when there was speculation about whether she would serve the full term, etc.
It's the only time she's ever denied that she would run, and it's worth digging that up now as a rebuttal to her "I have no intention of running" bullsh*t.
Personally, I'd like to see her run in 2004, so we can get the drumming over with.
We know what you think about HRC, but do you think she'll run in '04?
I hope she does run. She'd get her ass handed to her in the South and West.
I can't stand her. Everytime she opens her holier-than-thou mouth, I cringe.
I don't think she'll run in '04 not because she said she wouldn't but because if he has a fraction of her husband's political instinctsshe knows she doesn't have snowball's chance in hell of beating Bush unless the war on terror goes completely sour, and there isn't that much time for it to turn that badly. She is ordering her minions to leak stories like this every time one of the 9 dwarves makes any headway so she can take the wind out of their sails, because she wants to make sure Bush wins and she can run in '08 against a GOPer to be named later. By then (she hopes) things will have quieted down enough that national security won't be an issue anymore and (again she hopes) the power of incumbency won't transfer from Bush to whoever any better than it did from Bill to Al Jr. She'll still lose though, because there's not a single state Gore didn't take in '04 that she has a prayer of carrying. She'll be the Senator from New York as long as she wants to be, but her career has peaked.
The Clintons have become a political quagmire for the Dems. Sucking the party into a morass of moral equviliency, lies and deception from which there appears to be no end or escape.
Heh.
