The Mark Of Rove. You'll find it on the backside of many, many Democrats.
Hysterical. [End Quote]
The story of the day, it seems, that is generating a ton of buzz, is that Karl Rove is resigning, quoting family reasons and in the WSJ article he calls Hillary Clinton a "tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate".
He also points out that although President Bush's approval ratings are low, they have been rising and are far better than the Democratically controlled Congress.
His comments about Hillary Clinton echo what we have seen over this last weekend with an AP piece on the MSNBC website.
WASHINGTON - Looking past the presidential nomination fight, Democratic leaders quietly fret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of their 2008 ticket could hurt candidates at the bottom.
They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party's standing with independent voters and give Republicans who otherwise might stay home on Election Day a reason to vote, they worry.
In more than 40 interviews, Democratic candidates, consultants and party chairs from every region pointed to internal polls that give Clinton strikingly high unfavorable ratings in places with key congressional and state races.
They go on to say she is "damn unpopular":
'She's so damn unpopular'The funniest quote of that piece is here:
A strategist with close ties to leaders in Congress said Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races would be strongly urged to distance themselves from Clinton."The argument with Hillary right now in some of these red states is she's so damn unpopular," said Andy Arnold, chairman of the Greenville, S.C., Democratic Party. "I think Hillary is someone who could drive folks on the other side out to vote who otherwise wouldn't."
"Republicans are upset with their candidates," Arnold added, "but she will make up for that by essentially scaring folks to the polls."
Read the rest....
The 2008 election is still a ways away and I doubt that Hillary Clinton will become any more popular and I do not doubt she will be the one that the GOP candidate will have to go up against.
That is, indeed, good news for Republicans.
After all, the amount of baggage she has, which we know will be thrown out against her, repeatedly, will not do any good for the Democratic party as a whole, especially among independents and moderates.
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