I've found a candidate for 2004!According to William Saffire, it's Hillary. Saffire wants to know why Hillary was so... reasonable... on the Sunday talk-shows last week: One reason is that Hillary stands aloof, hard to get, while all the others are slavering for support. Another could be that most Democrats don't yet realize she's a hard-liner at heart. A third is that her personal appeal to liberals (and apoplectic opposition from conservatives) overwhelms all Democrats' policy differences. A fourth -- and don't noise this around -- could be that she speaks for the silent majority of centrist Democrats who yearn for the Old Third Way without Mr. Clinton.I think it's self evident that Hillary believes Howard Dean is going to be colossal failure, and she's doing her best to be a moderate. Let's remember that everything Hillary says and does should be understood by their value to a 2008 Presidential bid. Four years is a long time in the new history of Iraq, and we have reason to believe that in four years time Iraq may well be a reasonably stable fledgling democracy. Hillary is doing well for 2008 by tempering her words for that reality. And, if things go poorly in Iraq, she can lead the anti-Bush fight. |
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