This is good enough to post on Shabbes . . .
Well, Here it is: the goal seems to be a Clinton - Giuliani election in '08.
As a big damn pinko, I only have one question.
What the FUCK are the Democrats thinking? Billary (error intentional) can't win - even less likely to win than Kerry! What's going on here, anyway?!
Furthermore, I'm so sick of DINOs (Democrat In Name Only - Joe Liberman is their leader), the idea of having another "moderate" makes me ill.
Let me be clear: Billary Clinton is my Senator. I live in New York State and I can say that she is savvy and effective.
However, Billary also (1) plays the center, (2) backtracks (think of Kerry's comments on gays in the last 48 hours or on the Iraq vote during the campaign), (3) steps-right under attack, and (4) outright caves, if needed.
Billary Clinton is not a Democrat's Democrat. She's a Republican's Democrat - and the great irony is, The Right keeps painting her left of Stallin: she works and plays nice with them, they gouge her, she takes it, and in the long-term, we get screwed.
I am fairly sure that the entire nation has gone insane: Billary cannot take the White House in '08 - why not find a real candidate, DNC? Yo! DNC?! You pathetic idiots who keep begging me for money! Are you STILL asleep at the wheel?
reprint from salon.com:
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As a big damn pinko, I only have one question.
What the FUCK are the Democrats thinking? Billary (error intentional) can't win - even less likely to win than Kerry! What's going on here, anyway?!
Furthermore, I'm so sick of DINOs (Democrat In Name Only - Joe Liberman is their leader), the idea of having another "moderate" makes me ill.
Let me be clear: Billary Clinton is my Senator. I live in New York State and I can say that she is savvy and effective.
However, Billary also (1) plays the center, (2) backtracks (think of Kerry's comments on gays in the last 48 hours or on the Iraq vote during the campaign), (3) steps-right under attack, and (4) outright caves, if needed.
Billary Clinton is not a Democrat's Democrat. She's a Republican's Democrat - and the great irony is, The Right keeps painting her left of Stallin: she works and plays nice with them, they gouge her, she takes it, and in the long-term, we get screwed.
I am fairly sure that the entire nation has gone insane: Billary cannot take the White House in '08 - why not find a real candidate, DNC? Yo! DNC?! You pathetic idiots who keep begging me for money! Are you STILL asleep at the wheel?
reprint from salon.com:
Poll: Clinton, Giuliani top party picks
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By Marc Humbert
May 6, 2005 | Albany, N.Y. -- While Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Rudolph Giuliani are their party's top picks for the 2008 presidential nominations, both remain highly polarizing figures, according to a national poll released Friday.
Forty percent of Democrats polled said they favored Clinton, the New York senator, for the party's nomination while 18 percent opted for Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the loser of the 2004 presidential race.
Fourteen percent wanted former Sen. John Edwards, Kerry's 2004 running mate, according to the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, was favored by 25 percent of Republican voters for the 2008 GOP nomination with Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 20 percent and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent.
None of the often mentioned other potential contenders in either party managed to get into double digits in the poll. New York Gov. George Pataki, for instance, was favored by just 2 percent of GOP voters nationally.
The partisan polarization was evident for both Clinton and Giuliani, said Lee Miringoff, head of the Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based polling institute.
While 72 percent of Democrats said they would like the former first lady to run for the White House in 2008, 76 percent of Republicans said they did not. Conversely, 71 percent of Republicans said Giuliani should run while 64 percent of Democrats said he should not.
Miringoff said McCain and Edwards both run better against the top opposition than do Giuliani and Clinton. For instance, McCain leads Clinton by 50 percent to 42 percent, but Giuliani gets just 47 percent to Clinton's 46 percent.
"They don't have that polarization that Hillary and Rudy have," the independent pollster said.
Marist's telephone poll of 838 registered voters was conducted April 18-21 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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