Hillary Clinton is in the Tampa Bay area this weekend:
Tampa Tribune Editorial (2/25/2006)
We’d like to welcome you to Tampa for your fundraiser today, and thank you for your long service to our country and your party.
We expect that after your re-election this fall as junior senator from New York, you will dedicate yourself to seeking a higher office. But you’re a pragmatist, Hillary, so we urge you to be satisfied with the Senate.
If you run for president, chances are good that you’ll secure your party’s nomination. But realistically, how do you think you can win the White House? You are the most polarizing figure in the Democratic Party, and your negatives among likely voters are prohibitively high. Many people simply don’t trust you. You may share your husband’s name, but what people liked about him is not transferable to you.
You are not the person to help define a party that needs to convince voters it can govern from the vital center.
Even yellow dog Florida Democrats express profound reservations about your presidential ambitions. They worry that you cannot attract moderate and independent voters and that your presence will hurt the election chances of other Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
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I don’t agree. Hillary Please do run. Let’s get rid of you once and for all. The baggage that you carry will doom your chances for 2008. We don’t need you in 2012 either. So Hillary get the 2008 candidancy for President behind you.
We will defeat you then we can move on to better things.
Linked To: Mudville Gazette
