Loading ...As I read the breaking news from The Drudge Report, the tears began to flow uncontrollably; Sir Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “presidential goose” just might be cooked. My heart is broken. No, really. It is. No, that’s not a smile; it’s a nervous tick…
From Drudge:
TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS
Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!
“She can’t take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada,” laments one top campaign insider to the DRUDGE REPORT. “If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn’t want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats.”
Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary “could soon be out.”
“Her money is going to dry up,” Edwards confided, a top source said Monday morning. …”
Expect to hear a frantic statement similar to this one from the campaign of the “Former First Black Co-President” SOON:
“Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
First off, I thought it was illegal, via our 22nd Amendment to the Constitution for a Former (Co) President to run for office again after serving back-to-back terms, yet Hillary, who claims to have “co-presided” during the eighties with hubby Bill (and yes, I do kinda miss him — him), has been thus far, able to slide under the radar screen on that one.
Second, take my word for it; you’ve heard it here first — Sir Hillary Rodham Clinton WILL be back in the White House in 2009, and legally so — as the nation’s first “black” VICE president, making her “First Black Co-President” hubby the nation’s “First Black Co-Vice President” hubby AND the first “second man” ever. I use the term “legally” because many Constitutional scholars agree our 22nd Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t technically prohibit a “Former Co-President” from serving in the capacity of a Veep.
It’s natural the front-runner of the Democratic Party will select Senator Hillary to run as his vice prez — nobody can stand her. The strategy worked well enough for President “Surge” W. Bush when he selected the most unpopular man in history to campaign as HIS potential Veep (twice); Vice President Dick “Shotgun” Cheney; so it ought to work for Barack Obama or John Edwards as well. After all, why re-invent the wheel?
Ah yes — but for the top spot in the Oval Office — it’s not looking too good for the nation’s “Former First Black Co-President” (RealClearPolitics); at least not right this minute; she MIGHT just have to sneak in through the “back door”.
Let’s just pray her future running mate doesn’t let the “presidential pressures” get to him and go “Vince Foster” on us once he grabs the reins.
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While the 22nd is silent on the matter, the 12th Amendment would seem to preclude Bill from running or serving as Veep: “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
What about “co-veep” though?
Heh. Depends on the form it takes, I guess.
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