Shared Nightmare Brings GOP Together.. NPR

[The River]

Shared Nightmare Brings GOP Together

NPR.org, October 2, 2007
"Republicans have found the unifying issue they need to rally their party and lift their election chances in 2008 — and it is an issue with a human face.

The face belongs to Hillary Clinton, and the issue is the prospect of her becoming president.

Prominent Republicans, almost across the board, have decided that the junior senator from New York will be the Democratic nominee for the White House a year from now. They put this forward not as a mere prediction but as virtual fait accompli — not whispered in private but trumpeted from the roof tops.

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More than the war on terror, more than tax cuts and traditional values, stopping Hillary is the most effective means of energizing the GOP right now. Not even the evils of abortion, gay marriage and illegal immigration can whip up the same frenzy as a mention of the woman who was once first lady.

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The Hillary presumption also serves to diminish her intraparty rivals, some of whom might pose greater problems to Republicans in the 2008 general election. It serves the GOP game plan to keep the rest of the Democratic field mired in the mud as also-rans until Hillary is too far ahead to catch."

More at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14931920

The GOP field of candidates is so unappealing that the RNC is planning to make the election all
about HRC.

Let's see, The GOP want HRC
The Corporate Media want HRC
It's all over but the actual vote theft.

You think maybe by 2012 we can all learn to ignore the DLC?

[Beetwasher]

1. If It's On NPR, IT MUST BE TRUE!

:eyes:

The GOP only wishes it were that easy.

Hillary would make a GREAT President, and thankfully, I believe the majority of this country is smart enough to agree.

[rurallib]

2. I am not a Clinton fan but you know the prospect of a mass suicide

by right wingers is somehow ---- appealing.

[Spinzonner]

3. The Lemming metaphor is appealing

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. 23%.

MKJ

on edit, disclaimer, the percentage quoted above is only my guess, based on national poll numbers and anecdotal observation, which wasn't scientific. :-)