{"id":334,"date":"2003-06-13T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2003-06-13T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T05:20:00","slug":"334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> LATE NIGHT REBUTTAL TIME<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~prometheus_6\/\">Prometheus 6<\/a> responded to my reluctant ( I hate jumping on bandwagons) Hillary! posting:<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;The idea of a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy is much like the idea of a unicorn. Such a creature could exists\u2026 it just doesn&#8217;t. A Clinton candidacy would do more to energize the Republican base than the return of the Gipper himself. And a Clinton win would likely signal the start of the four year period that culminates in the Second War of Secession. <\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;d mind if she won. It would bring the day we see a Black president that much closer. But if you want to gain power you don&#8217;t set up your own obstacles. Sen. Clinton would be just as useful and convincing as Majority Leader and far less of an obstacle to regaining and leeping the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s due for a major increase in influence, and yeah, the book is probably part of setting the stage for that. But not as POTUS<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I would have to admit Hillary drives some folks on my side bannanas in a psychologically visceral way that &#8221; W &#8221; does to some kinds of liberals. The idea of Hillary as Senate minority leader is an intriguing one though I&#8217;m not certain if she&#8217;s a clubby enough personality for that difficult a role &#8211; getting senators to go along with something is a lot like herding cats. On the other hand HRC could represent her party with total message discipline and raise a lot of cash so if Daschle departs she could easily vie to replace him. Walking away from a presidential run where she could win at least the nomination would torment her to the end of her days &#8211; people who live and breathe politics like LBJ or Hillary or Nixon suffer terribly when they end up &#8221; out of the loop &#8221; so I&#8217;m betting she goes for the brass ring.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATE NIGHT REBUTTAL TIME Prometheus 6 responded to my reluctant ( I hate jumping on bandwagons) Hillary! posting: &#8220;The idea of a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy is much like the idea of a unicorn. Such a creature could exists\u2026 it just doesn&#8217;t. A Clinton candidacy would do more to energize the Republican base than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}