2008 Watch: Hillary & Paris
Pundits everywhere, including myself, have been saying for months that Hillary cannot win the general election. Even on The Chris Matthews Show a Sunday or two ago, Matthews and David Gregory dismissed a Clinton victory offhand. However, she is liberal enough to get the nomination, and a crafty enough politician to put up a very good fight. Sure, she's polarizing, but Dubya isn't?
She has more baggage than Paris Hilton, but she still managed a Senate victory in the second largest state in the Union after having moved there to run. The other thing she has in common with Paris Hilton is celebrity. Like or not, she is the most recognizable person in the DNC on Capitol Hill, and of current politicos for the DNC, only Dean may share such noteriaty. Celebrity has worked in her favor so far, as everytime she redefines a position, Matt Drudge shares with the world. However, most of the voting public see her from the MSM POV, and thus may remember 30-second sound bites here and there.
On the upside for the GOP, if the nominee is able to define Hillary before she gets the chance to re-redefine herself for the general election, then celebrity can work against her. All of Hillary's activites from 1992-2008 will be public record, and the GOP can manipulate voter's fuzzy memories to suit its needs.
So for the same reason that Paris Hilton is a celebrity for doing nothing really, and an even bigger one for promoting herself as a celebrity, something I a) find inexplicable, and B) find disguisting, do I also not discount Hillary as a presidential candidate, should it come to that.
She has more baggage than Paris Hilton, but she still managed a Senate victory in the second largest state in the Union after having moved there to run. The other thing she has in common with Paris Hilton is celebrity. Like or not, she is the most recognizable person in the DNC on Capitol Hill, and of current politicos for the DNC, only Dean may share such noteriaty. Celebrity has worked in her favor so far, as everytime she redefines a position, Matt Drudge shares with the world. However, most of the voting public see her from the MSM POV, and thus may remember 30-second sound bites here and there.
On the upside for the GOP, if the nominee is able to define Hillary before she gets the chance to re-redefine herself for the general election, then celebrity can work against her. All of Hillary's activites from 1992-2008 will be public record, and the GOP can manipulate voter's fuzzy memories to suit its needs.
So for the same reason that Paris Hilton is a celebrity for doing nothing really, and an even bigger one for promoting herself as a celebrity, something I a) find inexplicable, and B) find disguisting, do I also not discount Hillary as a presidential candidate, should it come to that.
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