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On Your Marks ...

Rich Galen

Friday March 11, 2005


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    From Washington, DC

  • The race for '08 has begun. Assuming Vice President Cheney doesn't declare his candidacy, 2006 will be, by my reckoning, the first time since 1952 (Dwight Eisenhower v. Adlai Stevenson) that there hasn't been in sitting President or Vice President on the ballot on either side.

  • A poll by Quinnipiac College has Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham running just behind both Rudy Giuliani (43-44) and John McCain (41-43).

  • Headlines proclaimed Rodham Clinton Rodham "competitive" against both Giuliani and McCain because she was a statistically insignificant distance behind.

  • We can't help but wonder what the headlines would have been had she been a similarly insignificant amount ahead: "HILLARY JUGGERNAUT!" or "QUEEN OF THE HILL!" Or some such.

  • Courage.

  • There are 435 voting members of Congress of whom, maybe, a dozen think they have a shot at being President.

  • There are 100 US Senators and 50 Governors. Each and every one of them - male and female - sings "Hail to the Chief" every morning as they shave to see if it fits.

  • Senior amongst the non-Senator/non-Governor group being mentioned is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

  • An Agence France-Presse (AFP) summary of the 2008 election suggested that the supporters of Secretary Rice are serious because "they have founded a fundraising committee, aired radio ads and issued Rice buttons, bumper stickers and bobble head dolls."

  • In France, you've got a bobble head doll; you've got a candidate. In France, you've got a bobble head doll you've already got a President: Jacques Chirac.

  • Where was I? Oh, yes the Quinnipiac poll.

  • One of the questions the poll asked was, "Do you think of Hillary Rodham Clinton [Rodham] more as a liberal, moderate or conservative?

  • Forty-Eight percent of the sample considered HRCR to be Liberal, 29% thought she was moderate and, unaccountably, 10% believed her to be Conservative.

  • To counter the notion held by nearly half the population that she is a Liberal, HRCR was out yesterday in the company of Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania (one of the most Conservative members of the Senate), Sam Brownback Republican of Kansas (who, if anything is even more conservative than Santorum), and Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut (the moderates' moderate) proclaiming her opposition, according to the New York Times, to "sex and violence in video games, television and other forms of entertainment."

  • Wait just a minute. Isn't this the kind of thing which was used as ammunition by the Left to prove Dan Quayle was out of tune with regular Americans and unfit for office?

  • Hillary and Quayle on the same page? Is this a great country, or what?

  • Memo to Hollywood: Do you feel just the teeniest bit cross-pressured? Will any one of you have the guts to speak out against Hillary? When you get back to the US from which ever foreign country you moved to following the re-election of George W., please drop us a line and let us know your thinking on this matter.

  • It would seem that Hillary has a little image problem. Half the country thinks she's a "Liberal" and way more than half the country is decidedly not Liberal.

  • Hillary will have to maintain some semblance of a Liberal identity to keep the other Democrats at bay during the primary season, but will have to pretend to hold moderate views if she hopes to have any chance of winning the Red States.

  • Two other modestly interesting questions on that Quinnipiac poll: One dealing with parental notification before a minor gets an abortion; the other on partial birth abortion,

  • Seventy-five percent of those polled favor parental notification for minors. Only 18% oppose.

  • An identical 75% oppose partial birth abortion. Only 13% approve.

  • If it were anyone other than Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham, the national press corps would be camped outside her Secret Service limo demanding to know whether she agreed with the most Liberal edges of US society or with the three-quarters of the American public.

  • Yeah. Right.

  • On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to the Poll and to the NY Times piece on video games, a modestly amusing Mullfoto and a very disturbing Catchy Caption of the Day.

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    Copyright © 2005 Richard A. Galen

                                                                       

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