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I know that many people with hurt feelings will want to push for a 2nd place finish for Hillary, but it should not happen.. It cannot happen.
Politics making strange bedfellows is a common idea, and some may agree with it, but when you put these ideas into everyday language, even the densest among us have to see the logic in NOT choosing her.
Would a 2nd wife want the 1st wife living with them? telling her how to cook all his favorite meals? how to decorate the house? what he liked in bed? How would an arrangement like that work out?
Would a person buy a business, and then be expected to keep the management in place and have to continue to do things their way?
Would you buy a house, and then have to allow the former owners to stay there with you?
A Hillary vice-presidency would be perceived by many, in the same way as Cheney's was.. a conservatorship. She spent 16 months trying to push the message that he was NOT ready, UNqualified, LESS viable than McCain, ONLY capable of making speeches..and so on.
If he chose her, he would be weakening himself and proving her right. That is NOT a way anyone should have to start a presidency.
She spent almost her entire campaign , trashing HIM, and for her to expect the vice presidency, is tantamount to extortion, but even that is not a valid tactic now, since she has no real bargaining chips left to play. She can claim to have voters he "needs", but will they even vote for an Obama-Clinton ticket, when they had their hearts set on a Clinton-anybody but Obama ticket? If she has done her "job" well enough, the seeds of discontent will be in full-bloom by November, and those disgruntled Hillary-lovers may see her 2nd place position as an insult ...and they may not even vote.
This is also something Hillary knows too. The Clintons are life-long connivers. They say or do nothing "accidentally". All the so-called "gaffes" are carefully orchestrated phrases, targeted to a specific slice of the electorate. They know full-well that an Obama/Clinton ticket would mean a compromised presidency from the beginning, and usher in 4 years of second-guessing from the press. You have to know that every decision a President Obama made would be immediately followed by a gaggle of press, eagerly seeking out an all-too-willing Bill Clinton, for HIS take on things.
Hillary may see 2nd place as a way to try and repair the dismal relationship with the African-American community, but that ship has sailed. I can see NO help for HER...only harm to HIM. The people who left her because of the racist attacks would only see HIM lessened by kowtowing to her demand that he accept her on the ticket.
Choosing her also binds him to her debt and her low approval rate. He cannot count on her to help him win, because he knows how much SHE covets the job. A losing Obama-Clinton ticket, proves her right, and puts her in place to run an "I-told-You-So" campaign in '12. They BOTH know this.
I hope that he will resist the calls for him to add her to his ticket. It does him no good, and he should not be asked to rehabilitate HER reputation as reward for her insincere "help".
The time, effort and money he has spent on this campaign surely entitles him to choose whom he wants..and not have to accept damaged goods.
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