RCP:
A year into Obama's presidency, it is no longer inconceivable, if still unlikely, that he could face a challenge within his own party in 2012, especially if Democrats suffer sizable losses next November. (When Howard Dean made a point of trying to scuttle health care reform altogether, was he simply trying to get a better bill, or was he setting himself up as a populist insurgent?)The tossaway quality of these lines makes them so interesting. It's as if this is what people are talking about. Are they? I don't really run in the same circles as writers from the New York Times Magazine, so I don't have a clue. Yet I did notice that Politico has a generally sympathetic entry on "The resurrection of Howard Dean." It also mentions a possible 2012 challenge of the President. Just as you need two data points to have a trend, you need two MSM articles to have a meme!
So, it's worth asking on this cold January day: could Howard Dean primary Barack Obama?
I will let you go read the rest, but my focus here is on the knock down, drag out fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008 and if the left is not happy with Obama and anyone has a chance to take him out of the 2012 elections, it would be Hillary Clinton.
Her fans are still as gung-ho as they have ever been, her supporters still angry over how she was treated and many of those that decided to "give him a chance" aren't exactly thrilled with his less-than-stellar performance thus far.
I say the hell with Howard Dean... bring on Hillary!
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