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In reply to the discussion: How many here feel "meh" about Hilary Clinton in 2016? [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Is there really only ONE possibility three years from now? Really?
To all of you kiddies who are too young to remember, in 1990, a mere two years before the next presidential election, every single viable Democrat decided not to run in '92 because then President George Herbert Walker Bush had just pulled off a very successful war in the Middle East, and it was obvious to the most casual observer that he'd be re-elected in a landslide.
Remember his second term? Remember?
Oh, wait. Some little-known governor of some silly state in the south -- Arkansas, if memory serves -- decided he could run for President. Some guy named Bill Clinton.
Here's my point. Three years from the next election not only is it a total cluster-fuck to be even *thinking* about 2016, but to assume that no one else besides the same old tired names from 2008 could possibly be viable candidates, is crap. Crap, I tell you, crap.
First off, let's worry about 2014. There's a lot of work to do to keep the Senate and to take back the House. After November next year, then we can turn our attention to our next presidential candidate.
And god help us all if no one can come up with a better idea that Hillary Clinton. With all due respect, she's part of the establishment that is so much of our problem right now.