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Posted by Stephen Green  ·   8 March 2004

Mort Kondracke explains why John Kerry needs to choose his Veep wisely:

Although Democrats invariably say their party is "pumped" to beat President Bush, primary election turnout numbers don't confirm it - a factor Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) might consider when he selects his running mate.

Total Democratic turnout in the 30 primaries and caucuses through Super Tuesday was 8,854,490, according to one GOP analysis, well behind the 11,280,625 recorded during 21 Republican contests in 2000, when Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was challenging George W. Bush.

Kondracke then explains why bipartisan wet-dream John McCain won't be Kerry's running mate, and why Hillary Clinton just might be:

Would Sen. Clinton do it? Why not? She'd be doing her party a big favor, enhancing her already-formidable claims on the 2008 nomination if the ticket lost. And, if it won, she'd have the 2012 nomination for the asking.

Read the whole thing.

Comments

All those conservatives who might be staying home?

Broken glass, IMHO. I was one until recently, but she'd make me one.

Posted by: Sandy P. at March 8, 2004 04:08 PM

Please, please, please, please....

I firmly believe that voting against Hillary is something that should not be reserved to the residents of NY.

Posted by: rosignol at March 8, 2004 04:34 PM

While Der ReichFrau Amerikaner who is simul also Nein-ReichFrau Amerikaner Hillary, and hosstud Bill, are deemed to control the coffers of the Democratic Party, I am NOT convinced Hillary will accept being VPOTUS with Kerry at this time - for one, the Clintons and Clinton Left still need W and the GOP to finish the US's WOT against rogue states; and second, if as the LeftNet indicates the Left in general desires Socialism in America, and Socialist AMerica under [Socialist] OWG by 2015-2020, which I believe for the Clintons is synonymous with saying COMMUNISM, a COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED AMRIKA, and a COMMUNIST WORLD ORDER by 2015-2020, then each and every non-Clinton US POTUS administartion, Democrat or Republican or Independent/non-aligned, is EXPENDABLE, ie MUST FAIL FOR THE SAKE OF COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM! The Clintons have only 2-3 US Presidential-specific tenures to essentially DEGRADE and DESTROY, IFF OUTLAW, free, Westernist, and Capitalist America as we know it! Radical Islamism, like Islamofascism, may possibly be nothing more than post-Cold War proxies for Cold War Communist armies, and they may merely a form of theo- or faith-based Socialism - be that as it may, or may NOT be, I sincerely doubt that as SECULARISTS OR SECULARIST ABSOLUTISTS, DEDICATED COMMUNISTS or COMMAND SOCIALISTS such as the Clintons and their cabal will long accept or tolerate any and all non-secular, albeit SOCIALIST, fractions. While for the time being fascist, communist, and lessor fractions work together in the UNITARY-MONOLITHIC cause of SAVING SOCIALISM, in the end only one can dominate, and the Clintons intend that to be COMMUNISM! THe Bush Republican WAR economy may be up and running comparative to all other world economies, but Bush and the successful GOP-Right themselves ARE STILL FAR FROM BEING SUFFICIENTLY WEAK LET ALONE THREATENED WITH POLITICAL-SOCIETAL DESTRUCTION - this is where allegedly anti-US "IMPERIALIST" GLOBAL LIMITED WARS [North Korea, Taiwan, Iran, etc.], American-specific Anti-Rightist Left-controlled "Rightist" NEOCONSERVATIVES-UNITARIANS, anti-US EUROS and the UNO, and NATIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE, "FAILED", US Presidencies come in! THE COMMUNIST CLINTONS LOSE NOTHING BY WORKING FOR BOTH A "NARROW" BUSH 2004 ELECTION WIN, vis-a-via PC ANTI-REPUBLICAN NATIONAL MANDATE, and probably under the guise of being achieved despite a SPLIT DEM TICKET; OR BY PC WORKING TO UNDERMINE OR ASSURE A "FAILED", AND NATIONALLY-GEOPOLITICALLY CONTROVERSIAL/
DESTRUCTIVE, DEMOCRAT PRESIDENCY! While former POTUS candidate John Edwards, of all the former Democrat 9, is Kerry's likely BEST ANTI-CLINTON bet, "Madman" or "Crazy" Centrist Howard Dean is more ideal for the Clintons cause because they get BOTH ANOTHER FAILED LIBERAL DEMOCRAT [ANTI-JIMMY CARTER CARTERISM] AND AN AMERICAN CENTRIST POTUS-WANNABE IMAGED AS TOO PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNSTABLE TO BE TRUSTED WITH ANYTHING RESEMBLING NATIONAL, GEOPOLITICAL, OR UNIPOLAR LEADERSHIP! I am anticipating the Clintons and Clinton Left will IFF during a Bush second term, and to include their INTERNATIONAL LEFTIST-SOCIALIST ALLIES, to immediately but PC "PUSH" the US INTO WAGING GLOBAL LIMITED WAR AGAINST NORTH KOREA AND OR IRAN, since any regional or geopolitical crises involving these two states will automatically, INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY, involve NUCLEAR-ARMED RUSSIA ANDOR CHINA IN THE TOTAL EQUATION! I AM CONVINCED NONE OF THE COMMUNIST BUT PC CLINTONS LIKELY WILL EVER RUN FOR POTUS UNLESS THEY ARE ASSURED OF THE OUTCOME SINCE THE FAILED LEFT NO LONGER CARES ABOUT DIFFERENTIALLY OR COMPETITIVELY PROVING THE SUPERIORITY OF LEFTISM-SOCIALISM VERSUS RIGHTISM-CAPITALISM, BUT NOW DESIRES UNILATERAL AND UNCONDITIONAL STATE-PROTECTION OF ITS AGENDAS WITHOUT IDEALLY HAVING TO PROVE ANYTHING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NO AMERICAN SHOULD BE SURPRISED THAT CONSPIRACY, ASSASSINATION, MALICE, BRIBERY,................ELECTION FRAUD IS NOW THE FAILED LEFT'S METHODS OF CHOICE! Remember, its owg by 2015-2020, and America's GDP to GO DOWN. or stay leveled at, circa $35.0T, by 2050! HILLARY IS WAITING FOR WAR, AND FOR US BODYBAGS TO GO UP - ONLY the Failed Left has both everything to GAIN, and everything to LOSE, BY SUCCESS OR FAILURE TO [FORCIBLY] IMPOSE SOCIALISM AND ANTI-SOVEREIGN OWG ON HYPERPOWER AMERICA!?

Posted by: Joseph Mendiola at March 8, 2004 05:12 PM

Maybe it's just me, but when I see a comment lacking any paragraph structure and more capital letters than the report cards of Mrs. Blankenship's entire fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade classes, something inside my head screams:

"Warning: Crazy Person Ahead"

P.S. Everyone knows the Clintons are really toiling away for preparing Earth for alien invasion. Get with the times.

Posted by: andy at March 8, 2004 05:31 PM

Boy, there is no one on the face of the earth who would do a better job of polarizing to get out their vote than hillary. you want turnout?, shes the one who will do it, although not in the way the dems intend.

But I would LOVE to see a Rice/Clinton debate. or a Guliani /Clinton debate, which I may get see anyway.


Posted by: frank martin at March 8, 2004 09:42 PM

Troll warning: This is the third Mendiola post I've seen today, and they are all like the above.

Posted by: Yehudit at March 9, 2004 01:22 AM

Rush says no way. The Clintons will do what ever it takes to make sure Kerry loses.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 9, 2004 09:29 PM

Hillary " I'm Just A Girl Like Martha Stewart" Clinton, aka newly discovered Leninist cookiecutter HillaMar ClintWart, besides everything else has Dubya's bro JEB BUSH to contend with. According to NEWSMAX etal. pol strategist DICK MORRIS does agree that Hillary must be Kerry's VEEP now lest she is willing to wait for 2012 - I am STILL unconvinced! Kerry as a pol with past failed campaigns is on the biggest pony of his entire career, and I doubt he will accept coming so far only to become a superficial "CO-POTUS" proxy for VP Hillary, a scenario which many analysts believe is very possible! McCain is also certainly possible for VP given his well-reported controversies both for and against his own party - however, I do NOT believe McCain will prove acceptable to Democrat base traditionalists, read partisan Democrats and anti-[Clinton] Unitarianists, whom as a class refuse to accept Republican influences or believe the party of Jefferson, FDR, and Johnson stands for Unitarianism or Unitarian Marxian Socialism! In addition, for McCain to accept being Kerry's VP will all but formally confirm certain internal GOP criticisms of Mc Cain as a dubious, devious Traitor-In-Sheep's-Clothing, free PR fodder for the GOP to use against both Kerry and the Dems in general - IF KERRY LOSES IN 2004, MCCAIN'S POL CAREER AS ANYTHING COULD VERY WELL BE PERMANENTLY OVER. Of all the now former Democrat 9, I believe ex-candidate John Edwards is Kerry's best, safest, credible anti-Clinton choice and opportunity to be his own man, whereas Centrist "Madman" Dean potentially poses too many long-range problems for any Kerry Administration, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS DEAN'S OWN PRIVATE PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS [read, non-GOP Bush-style, POTUS One-Termers]! I STILL BELIEVE THAT HILLARY WILL NOT RUN FOR ANYTHING - VPOTUS IN 2004, OR POTUS IN 2008 OR AFTER - UNLESS AMERICA'S WOT IS SEEMINGLY "FLOUNDERING" AND FACING PERCEIVED FAILURE IN HOTSPOTS SUCH AS IRAN AND NORTH KOREA-TAIWAN. IOW, HILLARY WILL NOT RUN UNLESS AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL MILPOL EFFORTS, AND THUS THE PROPECT OF AN AMERICAN-CENTRIC, AMERICAN ONLY-FUNDED GLOBAL WELFARE-POLICE STATE, APPEARS TO BE IN SEVERE TO CATASTROPHIC JEOPARDY! In 2004 the Bush Economy IS doing well and IS expanding, but despite bloody guerilla attacks America's hold on IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING LOST OR OUT-OF-CONTROL, while "rogue" states such as Iran and North Korea remain to be dealt with by Bush and the Republicans! Just as specific Hollywood shows are criticized occasionally as not being "black", "female", or "ethnic" enough, for the Communist Clintons I doubt Bush-led America is in SERIOUS-ENOUGH INTERNATIONAL DANGER for them to risk any by electoral defeat. I believe the Clintons, for now in 2004, will prefer working to achieve a NARROW BUSH ELECTION VICTORY, ala GOP vs Dem, US Socialism vs. US Capitalism, SOvereignty vs. Global Control, MANDATE over undermining any non-Clinton Democrat POTUS Admin at a time when America is yet at genuine catastrophic international risk! If as I believe Hillary will run in 2008, then the USA must likely be in deep and threatening national andor geopolitical ECOMILPOL CRISIS/CRISES between EOY 2004 - 2006, WITH AMERICA AND THE SOVEREIGNTY-MINDED, ANTI-UNO, ANTI-OWG, ANTI-SOCIALISM AMERICAN RIGHT ABSOLUTELY WEAKENED AND POLITICALLY EFFEMINATE OR DESTROYED AT OR AFTER 2006! HILLARY AND BILL DESIRE TO BE DEMANDED - DEMANDED - BACK TO POWER, NOT JUST ELECTED OR APPOINTED BACK, AND WITH AN IMAGE AS SAVIORS OF AMERICA AND GLOBAL PEACEMAKERS WHOM BROUGHT BACK TRUST IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND A BETTER, BENEVOLENT "CONFEDERATIST" OWG, BUT IN REALITY AMERICA WILLL HAVE LOST ITS SOVEREIGNTY, ITS IDENTITY, ITS REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND ITS ECONOMY TO AN ASIAN COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED GLOBAL GOVERNMENT-WORLD ORDER EMPLOYING FASCIST SOCIALIST ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OVER A CANTONIZED UNIPOLAR SOCIALIST WORLD!
RUSSIA and China only appear friendly and democratizing to us BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE CLINTONS ARE LOYAL COMMUNISTS AND WORKING FOR THEIR AGENDA, NOT FOR AMERICA, DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM, EUROPE, WESTERNISM, OR GLOBAL CONFEDERATISM! Hyperpower and Capitalist America cannot be allowed to strategically win the WAR ON TERROR BECAUSE A MILPOL GLOBALLY VICTORIOUS AMERICA BELIES A COMUNIST-CONTROLLED FASCIST AND SOCIALIST NUCLEARIZED RUSSIA AND A COMMUNIST SOCIALIST NUCLEARIZED CHINA THAT NOT ONLY NO LONGER MATTER GEOPOLITICALLY BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY BELIES A RESISTANT COMMUNISM AND COMMAND SOCIALISM THAT NO LONGER CAN JUSTIFY EITHER ITS PRECEPTS, SOCIALIST STATE MILITARIZATIONS, STATE WELFARISM-SUBSIDISM , OR A GENUINELY NON-CAPITALIST NON-MATERIALIST NATIONAL ECONOMIC AGENDA, AS COMAPRED TO "EXCLUSIVE CAPITALIST-ONLY" OR "EXCESSIVE CAPITALISM " PERMISSIVE INTRA-STATE TRADE ZONES! As I've warned many times to the US government and on the Net, in coming future decades Americans and world peoples will wonder what happened to them - why is mutual poverty and regression the norm, the ideal, NOT the exception, and why is mankind taking so long to medical cures for disease or go into space. For Americans, our future
"democratic unitarian" "government" and LeftMedias will still be telling us our nation is still great, that we are still important and a world player, BUT IN REALITY SOCIALIST AMERICA IS RULED FROM ASIA, AND AMERICANS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MEDIA-DUMB, MEDIA-GLORIFIED "MEDIOCRE" INDENTURED SLAVE-SERVANTS-PEONS TO GLOBALLY STRATIFIED AND WEALTHY-ELITIST ASIAN COMMUNISTS, WHAT COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED FASCIST RUSSIANS ARE NOW!
If anyone wants prophecy as to a future, possibly SOCIALIST AMERICA-WORLD, I suggest you watch the movies "The Postman" starring Kevin Costner, and the mid-1980's mini-series "Amerika"! The Clintons, like Leftism-Socialism-Liberalism, is about LEFTIST, GOVERNMENT and STATE COMMAND DOMINANCE AND POWER, THEIR POWER - just as Leftism-Socialism doesn't care for or or long tolerate COMPETITION or COEXISTENCE, the Clintons and the Failed Left don't care about imposing LONG-TERM OR EXCESSIVE TERM REGESSIONS-NEGATIVISMS OVER SHORT-TERM BENEFITS-POSITIVISMS! BETTER THE WHOLE WORLD DIE OR BE DESTROYED THAN FOR FAILED LEFTISM AND COMMUNISM TO NOT RULE -THE REAL LESSON OF 9-11 THEN AND THOSE STILL POTENTIALLY TO COME!?

Posted by: JosephMendiola at March 10, 2004 09:50 PM



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