Not the danger that Hillary Clinton would be elected president. That's alive and well. If anything, Hillary has solidified her lead for the Democratic nomination with a 14 point edge in the RCP average and leads in all the early states except Iowa (otherwise known as John Edwards' living room).
Given that Hillary isn't going to be handicapped with all the problems plaguing the Republican candidates, she has to be thought of as a favorite for the general election as well.
No! It's the danger that Hillary Clinton would be elected president without a single puff piece being written about her. The Washington Post puffs today on Hillary's base campaign team, the fact that it's almost entirely women, the lower middle-class origins of many of the women involved, the "day care" atmosphere of Hillary offices, and Hillary's eagerness to help the members of her team juggle work and motherhood.
As puffing goes, it's not horribly bad. The Hillary team seems human and there definitely aren't any of the weenie boy, pseudo-macho crap that dominates the Bush administration and that was the intended effect. The idea was to make the "Hillaryland" team look seasoned and tough without the frantic Bush chest-beating that has been such a disaster for the country.
And it works pretty well.
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I think a Democratic Candidate will have to be tough enough to 'swiftboat' the GOP opposition whenever swiftboating is called for, presumably in retaliation. Do you think Hillaryland is capable of this?
Oooh. I think the Hillary folks are pretty tough. They maintained a ferocious silence about Hillary running for president until she was ready to announce. "Swiftboating" is a high standard for unethical behavior though. I'm not sure that's called for (I'm not sure it's not either). What I do think the Democrats need to do is to keep up the pressure on the Republicans in the sense of finding new and funny ways to characterize their faults. Right-wingers are pretty good at this, but the Democrats don't seem to be very creative in this regard at all.
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