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Hillary Clinton to Run as Family Values Candidate

When she hits the presidential campaign trail next year, 2008 White House hopeful Hillary Clinton is planning to sell herself to the nation as a common sense, iron-willed, family values candidate.

Bwahahahahaha!

So says Newsweek's Howard Fineman, who says he uncovered the daring strategy during a recent conversation with longtime Clinton advisor James Carville.

He writes: "As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton looks for a basic sales pitch after what is likely to be a sweeping reelection victory in her New York Senate race this fall, shes going to play a part that comes naturally to her: hard-eyed realist in a world of dreamers . . . "Shes the one who kept her family together - its finances, its marriage, most of its parenting function," Fineman notes - credentials that he says will be key to Hillary's appeal.

Too many jokes, so little time....

Of Hillary's image as wife and mother, the Newsweek scribe reports: "That is the role she will cast herself in as she tries to win the White House."

"After eight years of what she will call the perhaps worthy but disastrously administered dreams of George Bush, its time to restore some discipline," says Fineman, adding: "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"

I'm thinking more "Mommy Dearest"

Posted by Steve 2006-05-04 15:09|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm thinking more Salem Witch Trials with a Stepford Wives slant.

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-05-04 16:56|| 2006-05-04 16:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Good Lord deliver us from this evil.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-05-04 17:42|| 2006-05-04 17:42|| Front Page Top

#3 .... but you never call, you never write????

Posted by Vince Foster 2006-05-04 17:45|| 2006-05-04 17:45|| Front Page Top

#4 If she wins, does this mean I can get my job back?

Posted by Monica Lewinsky 2006-05-04 17:47|| 2006-05-04 17:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Bwahahahah indeed!!!!!

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-04 17:52|| 2006-05-04 17:52|| Front Page Top

#6 "After eight years of what she will call the perhaps worthy but disastrously administered dreams of George Bush, its time to restore some discipline," says Fineman, adding: "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"

I'm sure she'll be good at not brooking any dissent with _her_ worldview, but that's not the same as being disciplined oneself.

Posted by Phil 2006-05-04 18:04|| 2006-05-04 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The failed Olympian, failed Astronut, failed family, memory challenged (I dont recall), family values candidate. How about running on the I am a bitch, so deal with it platform? At least I would respect you.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-04 18:46|| 2006-05-04 18:46|| Front Page Top

#8 The failed Olympian, failed Astronut, failed family, memory challenged (I dont recall), family values candidate. How about running on the I am a bitch, so deal with it platform? At least I would respect you.

Yah, but do we really need a political "arms race to the bottom" to see who can be the biggest asshole?

Posted by Phil 2006-05-04 18:55|| 2006-05-04 18:55|| Front Page Top

#9 "Clinton Family Values" doesn't have the connotation she thinks it has.

Posted by ed 2006-05-04 20:06|| 2006-05-04 20:06|| Front Page Top

#10 "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"

I was thinking more along the lines of 'Mommy Dearest'...

Posted by Pappy 2006-05-04 20:32|| 2006-05-04 20:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I likke her thighs!

Posted by the Twelfth Imami 2006-05-04 20:35|| 2006-05-04 20:35|| Front Page Top

#12 "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"

I think of her more as the psychopathic bull dyke warden in those 50's Women in Prison movies...

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-04 21:40|| 2006-05-04 21:40|| Front Page Top

#13 And don't forget to watch for the new book: "Keeping the Family Together Through Numerous Adulterous Affairs-A How-To Guide of Spousal Mistreatment and Child Neglect"

Wow, those family values! Think it'll make the NYT best seller list?

Posted by Jules 2006-05-04 21:48|| 2006-05-04 21:48|| Front Page Top

#14 "It takes a village ~~idiot~~ to believe I'm from New York"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-04 21:54|| 2006-05-04 21:54|| Front Page Top

#15 #9: "Clinton Family Values" doesn't have the connotation she thinks it has.

Ouch, I can feel the sting from that slap
'way over here about 5 or so States away from DC.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-05-04 22:00|| 2006-05-04 22:00|| Front Page Top

#16 I believe mainstream Americans are truly tired of perennial, permanent displays of Policraticism and Dialecticism , etc. in its local and national leaders. American Hiroshimas aside, in any case the GOP can still lose in 2008 iff the Repubs put out a male POTUS candidate that appears weaker than she is - Hillary, etal femmes includ Condi got 2-1/2 years to prove their souls to the Amer voter/people.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-04 22:04|| 2006-05-04 22:04|| Front Page Top

#17 "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"

Except that mother actually gives a rat's ass about her husband and kids, and makes sacrifices for them.

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