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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (696404)	8/11/2005 8:53:53 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I have to agree. Although she can grab a lot of cash, I think she needs to stick her toe in the water first. There is likely a lot of critical shots that were previously withheld from the Hillary target by some just because she was only the first lady. A nationwide election might not tolerate her personality and politics." Yeah, I had to disagree with Bill when he said 'Hillary already had the nomination locked-up'. A 'stop Hillary' movement will probably coallese fairly early around one of her opponents (same as the 'stop Dean' group rallied around someone). "McCain as you said does have the ability to collect many independent and even military Democrats. Frist doesn't have any real following and Rick Santorum might be just a little too new." Right now, there seems to be a good dozen potential candidates on both sides... but few with a lot of mass appeal, a lot with appeal mainly to the hardcore Party supporters. The primary season should be fascinating to a political junkie such as myself.... widest open Presidential campaign cycle we've seen in a while. "I doubt that conservatives would run from McCain simply due to his electability with their support." I agree --- despite however much noise they make about the 'possibility'. One argument that has gained some currency among them is that McCain may be too old for two terms in office... in which case his V.P. would have a leg-up... and some of the social conservatives might regard him as a 'placeholder' or a 'seat warmer' (doing the dirty work of cleaning up some of the fiscal and foreign policy troubles we have... and taking the political heat for undertaking such work), while keeping the seat warm for a younger, more-to-their-liking, social conservative potential two-termer.