Mary: I don't think Hillary can win...She's bright (but polarizing) and would be better off replacing Reid in the next few years as Senate Majority Leader.
The Dems have had a tough time learning that you put the SALESMAN at the top of the ticket and the Bureaucrat at the bottom. Best foot forward, as they say.
A combination like Edwards/Kerry could have won in 2004. Likewise Obama/Clark (for his foreign policy experience) in 2008 would be the right way to do it – or shall I say, the way the right-wing would do it, and win. They understand marketing, sales, and how to win many of the big elections. But not the Dems: both Edwards and Obama are too new and too thin on experience to allow Serious Democrats to put them at the top of the ticket...we hear this way too often.
I should note here that the Republicans didn’t let Shrub’s complete lack of experience keep them from putting him on the top of the ticket. He’s a good politician, connected with people, and was a damn good salesman. He was smooth and he sold well. They knew that all their experienced, “serious” old-hands were electoral losers: the Bob Dole types. And so they did the smart thing: THEY KEPT THEM OUT OF THE RACE. So, why wouldn’t we put an Obama or an Edwards up there, and let him pick a Clark or a Feingold for the VP to deal with the Beltway? People who have natural charisma, charm, and “star power” win elections. Bill “Elvis” Clinton had that from the get-go. Obama has it at a level I’ve never seen in a politician.
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