Michael Weiss, Pajamas MediaShe knows that if Obama wins this year, her hopes of ever becoming president will vanish. . . . Her best bet would be to see Obama lose, thus vindicating her unheeded plaint that he was general election poison, and then run against the incumbent McCain in 2012, vowing to “take back the White House” after twelve years of Republican misrule.
How might she facilitate this strategy? She canÂ’t endorse McCain and campaign openly against Obama without forfeiting her right to call herself a Democrat. Also, it is by no means evident that the butterfly kisses the GOP is sending in her direction, not to say the loyalty of her dejected supporters, are enough to sustain a permanent party switch. However, what she can do is stay in the picture long enough as an off-color liberal commentator, the beaten but unbowed grand dame, ever with the ready opinion on every foible of the Obama campaign. She can present herself to voters as the missed opportunity, the jilted ex-lover for whom they all still secretly pine.
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Yes, this strategy will make the Tammany bosses angry and perhaps even “bitter,” but if it works or helps unhorse the golden boy with the nutty preacher and oily ties to the Chicago demimonde, what choice will they have in four years? Adlai Stevenson didn’t get them anywhere, maybe it’s time to revisit Richard Nixon in a pantsuit After all, the only thing that exceeds the Clintonian immunity to defeat is the Democratic willingness to forgive all Clintonian sins for the sake of victory.