GOP Strategists Worry About Clinton Strength

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GOP Strategists Worry About Clinton Strength
By Kenneth T. Walsh

Nov 20, 2007


(US News) Carefully keeping track of Hillary Clinton's campaign from day to day, senior Republican strategists and White House officials are increasingly concerned that she will be a very formidable candidate in next year's presidential election.

Not only do President Bush and his top aides believe that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee; they express grudging admiration for her ability to rebound from setbacks and parry her opponents' attacks. The latest examples, in the GOP officials' view, came in last week's Democratic debate in Las Vegas, when Clinton got the better of Barack Obama and John Edwards and showed her resilience. This came after Clinton seemed off-balance amid criticism of her dissembling over a proposal to issue driver's licenses to illegal workers in New York--which the governor has now withdrawn and which Clinton now says she opposes.

All in all, the battle for the Democratic nomination is toughening up the Clinton campaign, improving its rapid-response operation, and making clear that it can take nothing for granted--all valuable lessons, GOP advisers tell U.S. News. As for Bush, he remarks to friends that he sees strategic parallels between his 2000 race and Clinton's today. Notably, Bush says the 2000 primary process helped strengthen his campaign and ready him for the general election, especially after he lost the New Hampshire primary to John McCain and was forced to make a comeback.

"The primary process helps Senator Clinton right now," says a senior GOP strategist. "She's got to show she can take a punch"--and so far, that's what she's doing.

.... which leads me to believe the opposite is true. :think:

and Tom Delay recently said that she'll be the next president.

:shrug:

My husband, mother and self have all fleed the party for the HILLSTER!

There are many like us who are coming around as well.

Who needs the endorcement of Oprah when we have Tom Delay's.

LOL!!!

And to the party of the Hillster.

I am proud of the whole field this year, and think it's light year's better than the other side's.

Quite the endorsement.

Apparently not. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

would have been much easier to smear...

Of course they're worried - she's only oh-so-slightly to the left of the Rethugs, she'll swipe a lot of middle and right votes, and the Dems, of course, will vote for her like the sheep we are.

Hillary presently is caught off guard, last week she hit a home run in Vegas debates and this week she has fallen further behind in Iowa.

Uh huh. The GOP is scared alright -- they're scared stiff they won't get to bury Clinton with 15 years of oppo-research
after all.

By the way, Obama does better by a large margin than Clinton against Republicans in general election matchups:
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportEmail.aspx?g=2d211d2a-ee13-40ab-8455-5a70b9b55bfe

Guess who they're really afraid of?

lol

n/t