We are closing in on another general election and the Dems are scrambling looking for a counter to Donny and his MAGA idiots….and they are starting to talk about a failed candidate from the past….Hillary.
Hillary Clinton is headed to New Hampshire, and the trip has one pundit wondering about 2028. “At first glance, the idea of another Clinton run sounds crazy,” writes Peter Lafflin in the Washington Examiner. But he lays out a plausible, if long-shot, scenario. During the trip, the former secretary of state, senator, and first lady will deliver the keynote at the state party’s McIntyre-Shaheen Dinner in late April, a slot historically tied to would-be presidents. “You can bet her allies will be watching closely to see how she is received,” he writes.
Lafflin contends that, despite Clinton’s age—she will be 81 in 2028—and her loss in 2016, she may be more viable than many in a crowded 2028 field: She’s been sharp and combative in recent public outings, has deep party ties, strong support among Black voters, and sky-high name recognition that could translate into early-state pluralities. Laffin sketches a scenario where she rides the “establishment lane” into a showdown with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and a progressive challenger—hardly a sure thing, he admits, but “it isn’t crazy, either.”
Read the full piece.
I shake my head but what does hillary think?
During an appearance at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Clinton was directly asked if she was “thinking about running again.”
Her answer was immediate. “No. No, I’m not. But I think we’ll have some very good candidates. Some of them were at Munich.”
Those remarks come after senior editor Peter Laffin described her as a “plausible” candidate in the Washington Examiner.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris kept the door open on a possible third presidential run, saying that she’s “thinking about it,” eliciting cheers from a majority of the crowd at the National Action Network Convention on Friday.
“Listen, I might, I might. I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it,” Harris responded when Rev. Al Sharpton, during their chat at the New York City convention he hosts, flatly asked her if she’s planning to run again.
“I’ve been traveling the country the last year, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the South and many other places, and the one thing I’m really clear about, also, is the status quo is not working, and hasn’t been working for a lot of people for a long time, and part of the issue is the need to get rid of some of the bureaucracy in government and to understand that the people want — they don’t want process, they want progress. And that’s the work that needs to be done,” Harris said.
(abcnews.com)
Once again I say NO!
She failed last time….we need new blood in the the party not a rehash of old tired ideas that have not proven there worth in decades.
This whole idea of anyone but Donny will get us nowhere near the place this country should be.
Anyone have a different take?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
“Donny” is President for Life– get used to it.
Unlike so many I will NOT get use to it. chuq
Clinton? That’s a joke, right? It must be. No one in their right mind would seriously consider her to be a viable candidate for dog catcher much less president.
If Harris has any brains at all she’ll stay the hell away from this. She wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it to the White House.
At the moment there are possibly three potential democratic candidates who might have a chance. Might. All governors. Newsome of California, Walz of Minnesota and Pritzker of Illinois. And as sad as that is, it’s true. There’s certainly no democratic senator or representative in the house with any political clout or public influence at this time to make a viable run at the WH. The only dems who have had the balls and intelligence to genuinely push back against the corrupt trump administration have been state governors.
Newsom… In his own way he’s quite possibly almost as corrupt as Trump. His administration has been haunted by no-bid contracts going to political cronies, misuse of Covid funds, “Pay to play” accusations, perhaps as much as $180 billion in fraud involving welfare, Medicaid and other social program funding, the fiasco of a high speed rail project that’s already cost billions and is going nowhere fast and… well you get the idea. The list goes on and on.
Walz is a possibility. He’s already gone head to head with the Trump administration and it could be argued that he forced it to at least partially back down on the invasion of his state by ICE. He’s smart, empathetic, caring, reasonably ethical. But the problem with him is I don’t think he’s aggressive enough or tough enough to be able to handle what the GOP would throw at him.
Pritzker has a lot going for him. He’s probably aggressive and tough enough to be able to handle what the GOP would throw at him. He won the governor’s office with one of the highest percentages over his opponent in years. He’s managed to somehow balance Illinois’ utterly insane budget problems, he pushed through raising the state’s minimum wage to a more reasonable level. He has an excellent record in education. Community college tuition for illinois residents is now free for working class families. He turned around the state’s business climate. Illinois is now listed as one of the five best states for business. He got assault weapons banned, banned high capactiy magazines for firearms, got through a law forbidding banning books, worked to keep reproductive rights for women… Well you get the idea.
Considering what he’s accomplished in Illinois, considering what a fecking mess the state was before he got into office and what it’s like now, he’d be my choice. Unfortunately outside of the midwest almost no one seems to have even heard of him or knows of what he managed to accomplish in Illinois.
The biggest problem with the democrats is that they should be trying to position someone, anyone, to push into the candidacy for president RIGHT NOW and they aren’t. If they wait much longer it’s going to be too late to try to gin up support for a candidate. Their biggest issue is a lack of leadership. Basically there is none at all. There is no leader that is trying to put together a comprehensive, cohesive picture of even what the democrats actually want to accomplish. Their whole platform is a laundry list of “well it would be nice if…”, or “Maybe it would be good if we could do …” and the “…” part is whatever fantasy they happen to think of at the moment and those goals are scattered all over the place and change on a daily basis. There is no cohesive vision. They need to learn from what the GOP has been doing. Pick one or two hard core objectives and hammer on them over and over again.
Sorry, this has turned into a bit of a rant, hasn’t it? I just get so damned frustrated with the democrats utter ineffectualness, complete failure to adequately prepare, and its inability to demonstrate any courage and aggressiveness at all in pushing back against the insanity that the GOP has plunged this country into that I have to vent once in a while.
I just get so damned frustrated with the democrats utter ineffectualness … Damn straight!!!
Some have suggested Mark Kelly.
No problem it is good to see your go off…..I agree with everything you have said but I still have reservations for the 3 you mentioned…..the Dems are not in a winning mode…..right now it looks like the elections will be disasters for Dems and especially the people of this nation. chuq
I have reservations about them too. But the thing is, at this point in time we shouldn’t be guessing and scrounging around looking for someone, anyone, to take on the GOP machine. The Dems should already have one or two potential candidates in mind and they should already be promoting them if not directly at least pushing their names into the news cycle the way the GOP is pushing Rubio.
Do I really need to point out that it looks like they’ve hung Vance out to dry? He’s either being kept out of the limelight entirely, or he’s being pushed into situations where he is being inadequately prepared. Information is being withheld from him… The list goes on and on. It’s starting to look like they’re deliberately trying to tank any chance he might have had at the presidency. Right now it looks like the person they’re pushing forward is Rubio.
Of course you can’t really blame them if that’s the case. Vance has proven himself to be ignorant, incompetent and to be a backstabbing little weasel. although come to think of it, that would describe about 2/3rds of the Congress, most of the Supreme court and about 99% of the current administration.
I agree the Dems have spent too much time bitching and moaning and not enough on looking for viable candidates…at this rate they will be lucky to get a majority.
Hogsbreath seems to be sneaking into Donny’s sphere of power. chuq
Thought you might like this article….https://www.alternet.org/redistricting-2676907320/
chuq
Mamdani?
Doubtful.
He’s not qualified, is he? I thought he was born in Uganda, not in the US. Came here as a child.
He is making a name for himself….so far I like him…..chuq
I won’t be voting anymore for Democrats at the federal level, so I don’t care who they nominate in 2028. Hillary, Harris… a corporatist by any other name would smell as foul.
I am with you….I have not voted Dem since 1992 and will not yet again. chuq
IMO, we are still not in a place to elect a woman president. And after Trump, it’s even more far-fetched because he has supported and fed the “male superiority ego.”
I think you may be right, Nan. The US has a long tradition of misogyny that’s as deeply ingrained as its racism. Here’s just one example. “Melissa Isaak, an immigration judge appointed by the Department of Justice, made the remark during a 2021 interview and a subsequent 2022 speech. In her remarks, she stated that there were “two types of women” in the world, categorizing them as either “good, solid, valuable women” or a “warm, wet hole” That this person was able to make comments like that and still retain any kind of position of authority is just one indication of how bad things are here.
Sadly I agree with you…..Hillary was a mistake and Harris was a huge mistake. at the time. chuq
Not Clinton or Harris, the US has shown it will not (perhaps never) elect a woman to be president. For all of his faults I think Newsom might be the only option to beat Trump. It will come down to an ‘anyone but Trump’ election anyway, once he wangles the chance of a 3rd term. (Unless he dies first, in which case the Dems should be able to beat Vance)
Best wishes, Pete.
That is what I fear….’anyone but Trump’ will get us the worse government possible.
Pete is it true that a seagull crapped on Charles? Damn send him to us….Donny needs it. chuq
No idea about the seagull, I never follow ‘royal news’.
I believe you may be right Newsom may have the best chance….but a lot can happen between now and the general….I am still not convinced that he would be good for the country…..but I will see. chuq