‘New Bill’ emerges to thwart Hillary

[emad]

Sunday Times
Sarah Baxter, Washington



THE God-fearing governor of a southern state who has been described as America’s “new Bill Clinton” could end up fighting Hillary for the Democrat presidential nomination.

Mark Warner, who is compared to the former president for his “crossover” appeal to voters, is emerging as a top contender to stop Clinton’s wife from winning the Democrat ticket in 2008.

Democrats were this weekend savouring victories in elections for governor of Virginia and New Jersey and a drubbing given to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reform package in California. But the real victor last week was Warner, a multi-millionaire and motor racing fan.

The 51-year-old outgoing governor of Virginia is basking in sky-high approval ratings of 74% in a state that voted for George W Bush as president by a wide margin and has a Republican-dominated legislature.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1870058,00.html

[incapsulated]

1. I thought you meant they passed an anti-Hillary bill of some kind...

Literal thinking, a sign of schizophrenia.

[madaboutharry]

4. It does kind of sound

that way!!

[soothsayer]

8. me, too!

[PatrioticLeftie]

2. Which is more popular...

Among Dems? Bill or Hillary?

[emad]

3. Is this the man to put the Democrats back in the White House in 2008?

Is this the man to put the Democrats back in the White House in 2008?

Edward Helmore in Richmond, Virginia, meets Mark Warner, a bluegrass-loving former hi-tech venture capitalist, who is tipped to 'do a Clinton'

Sunday November 13, 2005
The Observer


A company of redcoat drummer boys signals the entry of Mark Warner, his Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to Richmond's annual folk music festival. In this state, with its dense history, the drums echo defeat for the British forces, but not so for Warner, its popular outgoing governor.

Last week Warner emerged as a new darling of the Democratic party and the man some are saying has a chance of winning the presidency in 2008. Compared with other hopefuls in the race, such as Hillary Clinton, he is a virtual unknown, but there is a discernible political excitement that this former hi-tech venture capitalist is the Democratic party's dream: a southern governor who appeals to moderate southern Republicans.

The latest poll of Democrats shows that 41 per cent of party members presently back Hillary as their contender for the next election. John Edwards has 14 per cent of the support, John Kerry has 10 per cent, Senator Joe Biden has five per cent and Wesley Clark four (Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are the favoured candidates for the Republicans).

But such early polls rarely predict the future accurately, and the chatter in Washington is that the next presidential election could be an all-Virginia derby between Mark Warner, the governor, and John Warner, the state's powerful Republican senator, who was once married to Elizabeth Taylor.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1641435,00.html

[iamjoy]

5. Let's See How He Does In 2006 First

I understand he is considering challenging George Allen's Senate seat.

I also hear Allen's name mentioned as a 2008 Republican Presidential nominee.

Of course, maybe we shouldn't put too much on the outcome of that Senate race, after all, Douglas may have beat Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race, but we know who ended up as President.

I have mixed feelings about Warner going for Senate if he wants to run for President. Congressional voting records can be manipulated to where they are darn hard to defend. On the other hand, he stands a chance of beating Allen and we desperately need more Democratic Senators.

[skipos]

6. Warner is much more electable than Hillary. And anyone

who can undeniably help us pick up a red state (VA) deserves serious consideration.

[JNelson6563]

7. Scary how much the corporate media likes Warner

*red flag*

[justiceischeap]

9. From what I've seen living in VA the last two years

Warner is more like a moderate Republican than a conservative Democrat.

[montana500]

11. yep.

nm

[wisteria]

10. To prepackaged for me. n/t

[Sparkly]

12. He sure is getting a lot of press. nt

[DELUSIONAL]

13. 'God-fearing"?

what the hell???

I don't want a religious ding a ling -- ever again in the office of Prez.

Never -- no way would I EVER vote for someone who is described as "The God-fearing" anything.