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Hillary Clinton’s Vice President
Depending on how you feel about the candidate (and everybody seems to feel strongly one way or the other), there is either far-sighted prudence or incredible arrogance in what Hillary Clinton’s most ardent backers have been doing this weekend.
Buoyed by favorable fund-raising and poll numbers, they are debating in detail her running mate for ’08. After ticking off the pluses and minuses of the most obvious contenders, they have decided that Hillary’s Al Gore should be a choice from out of left (or more precisely) center field. A lifetime supply of Clinton campaign buttons to anyone who guesses right.
20 Responses to “Hillary Clinton’s Vice President”
I believe that Hillary will pick someone that will not show her up and grandstand her. Much as George Bush Sr. did with Dan Quayle.
Gore in my opinion would be the last choice. I would suspect Gore would have an appointment coming as a Secretary of Homeland Security or something along those lines. But Not VP>
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I think Bill Richardson should her VP choice.
With the Republicans doing all they can to piss off the Hispanic community, the two of them could sweep the south west and flip Florida blue.
Didn’t mean to tease about the Hillary VP choice–just messed up the link. Here it is:
http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/06/hillarys-next-mate.html
Bill Richardson or Barack Obama. I like Gore, but they apparently have never gotten along, and I doubt he’d want a second chance to be second banana for the Clintons. Obama would help her since he’s from the midwest and shares the charisma that her husband has but Mrs Clinton sadly lacks.
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Obama on paper would be a good choice but again I think he would show her up and reveal in her the flaws that she does not want apparant.
Mark Warner. He’s also centrist; he was a very successful governor of a Southern State; and he’s a white male.
I don’t think Obama would show her up if he were on the same team. Just as Cheney never showed up W for his lack of foreign policy experience- he just created a lot of the policies in secret. Of course, now we are finding out who was really responsible.
Another pick would be Tom Vilsack former governor of Iowa. But I think making a bid for the black or Hispanic vote would be smartest.
Webb? Webb?
Makes sense only when you look at one factor: 4 of HRC’s staffers hail from Kerry’s 2004 bid. Why else would they choose a junior Southern Red-State-Blue-Office Senator on his first term unless they actually want to make this a carbon-copy of the 2004 race?
And here I thought that Harold Ickes would have tried to nip that sort of thing in the bud.
I like Webb, but I don’t see him helping out her campaign too much. For one thing he’s still a conservative on too many issues for a Democratic VP nominee. And the lack of time in office is not a plus. Finally, if they won, George “macaca” Allen would run and be back in the saddle again!
Cheney did not run against Hillary. Cheney was not everyones favorite. Cheney was not handsome and charming and debonaire. Cheney did not out raise Bush in election funds.
You seriously think She would choose her biggest competitor who is being billed as a uniter while she is being billed a divider?
It could happen I suppose. But I doubt it. Everyone thought Bush would choose McCain to be his VP and Bush said stick it in your ear.
Yes, I think so. They haven’t really come to blows in the campaign yet, so its possible. They each have something the other lacks. He has more charisma and attracts independents and even some Repubs, she does well with women and outperforms him so far with African-Americans.
But Richardson might be the best choice- as he would help in the West, and bring in Hispanic and independents.
I just don’t think Warner or Webb would help than much. Warner threw in the towel on his own campaign, and Webb creates controversy.
I’m sure its been difficult for Hillary being married to the mother of all charismatic politicians, but she seems to do fine with it.
My favorite ticket would be Gore-Obama, but I doubt Gore would run against the Clintons.
No I think Gore has already worked a deal with the Clintons to have a cabinet level position.
The department of Environmental Oversight.
I know but these are democrats we are talking about…….they will make one as soon as they are in charge.
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Secretary of the Environment, heading an all-new Department of the Environment (separate from or renamed from Department of the Interior).
Gut Interior, move all the federal lands (most of which should have been state and locally owned for decades already) and other environment-related things into a new Department of the Environment or Department of Natural Resources, and transfer the EPA there.
It’s a lefty’s dream and actually makes more sense now than the existing Department of the Interior (or the dinosaurish Department of Labor, for that matter).
Or Obama-Gore. The activist left would love it and others like you obviously would, too. Certainly it would be more charming and celebrity-ish than any pair the GOP would run — in a year where voters are tired with Iraq and with the Bush administration.
I still like Gore-Obama, because it answers the critics who think Obama is too inexperienced. It also might convince those voters who have buyer’s remorse after the 2000 election to switch sides. Also, I doubt Gore wants to be VP for another 4-8 years, even if he could follow the Dick Cheney model of unlimited power with no accountability to anyone, lol.
No one knows for sure if Gore wants to run, and I still think he won’t if Hillary stays in. She seems to be determined to stick it out, so I don’t see my ticket materializing.
I would like to see Clinton-Edwards but Edwards wife has too big a mouth I think her and Hilary would clash.
What I would really like,although I realize would never happen is the Clinton-Clinton ticket.