OPEN POLL : Do you think Hillary Clinton can beat any republican that runs for president in 2008?

Go at it people!

i'll confess: i'm very, very disappointed with Sen Clinton after the bravery of Mrs. Clinton. but i realize that i'm very far to the left, and few pols make me happy. that said, despite her war chest (what is it now, 45$M?) i think all she'd do is flounder in today's media reality.

even the "paper of record" still treats her sex life like an important national news story, at the same time completely ignoring the much jucier (if you care for that kind of crap) sex lives of the closet-case, adulterous republican party. hillary could fellate bush on national TV, and the media would still call her a "bitch" and repeat ever ridiculous lie about her ever passed around.

hillary running is just a stupid idea. in addition to the media circus she'd be at the center of, the very mention of her name mobilizes the wacky wingnut voter. i can't think of any better way to guarantee republican victory in 08 than to have a hillary ticket. the fact that she's practically a republican these days won't help her one bit. she's a "brand" now, and that brand spells disaster for all members of the democratic party who refuse to see that 1996 is long, long past.

Most of us in the liberal world are not too keen for Hillary to be the next Democratic candidate. She nearly always sides with what Bush wants. We have had enough of that! Not to mention, can't anyone who isn't a Bush or a Clinton get elected?

a page at the Daily Kos blog where President Carter is answering questions about a variety of issues. Questions submitted by regular ole American voters.

Contrasting his direct and informative approach with Senator Clinton's inability to take a firm stand against the war in Iraq. . . it doesn't inspire me to support her.

Nance

I have to agree that Hillary really doesn't have that much of a shot.....she alienates too many liberals with her pandering to the social Right on too many issues, and yet she simply won't be able to attract any of those "NASCAR dad" and blue-collar conservative votes away from whomever the Republicans nominate (more than likely, McCain or Jeb Bush).

The problem is, unfortunately, the primary system is so rigged and the financing is so much in her favor that she will probably get a free pass without much opposition to the Dem nomination. Unless Al Gore changes his mind and decides to run, I really don't see any real opposition (and that includes from the usual suspects of Kerry, Clark, Feingold (who will be simply dismissed as the "conscience liberal candidate") and Kucinich (the "radical Left fringe").

The only real shot that she has (provided that she gets the Dem nomination) is the notion of a split within the Republican right among class and cultural lines, between the right-wing "populists"/"isolationists"/"movement conservatives" and the establishment/pro-business conservatives who control the money in the GOP; that produces an independent right-wing populist party like Ross Perot's Reform Party did in 1992.

That may take away enough votes from the main Repub candidate to allow HRC to slip by with a plurality victory....provided that the liberals aren't so disillusioned by her pandering that they stay home on Election Day.

Only my opinion, of course.

Anthony

Why not?! I strongly believe that a woman (regardless of party affiliation) could and would be elected into the Oval Office before any black or latino candidates - how about that to start some shit! Anyways, I would love to see if Hillary would pull the same stunt as Bill did "working late" at the office; payback is a mother fucker!

Cambio ya al "status quo". Nuestro pueblo tiene el derecho y la resolucion de ser un pueblo libre. Abajo con el colonialismo "yanqui" en Puerto Rico. Patria o muerte; que viva Puerto Rico libre!

isn't actually a qualification, though.

I don't mind that she's a woman, but that doesn't overcome her other weaknesses.

Get a good, strong, liberal woman in the running -- and I'll vote for her.

Nance

If the Wicked Witch of the West Wing ever does run here's some questions Dan Rather can ask her..ooops! Forgot about Dan, okay Sean Hannity.

1) Tell us how your really made that $100,000 killing in Tyson Foods?
2) Just where were those Rose Law firm billing records all that time?
3) Why did you have the White House travel office purged?
4) What do you know about a little firm called Whitewater?
5) Do you really scream and throw things at Bubba like the Secret Service said you do?

It would be a bloodbath.