I know I've said this before, but really, now I give up. I said with such authority that it was certain that Hillary Clinton would be our next President. I thought everyone missed Bill and that people who didn't like her were probably Republicans anyway. (I did predict, unpredictably correctly, that the two of them would bring lots of excitement to the race (duh!). But enough about me.
What about Hillary? Chuck Todd thinks she wants to be V.P., but I tend to doubt it. And it will take a horde of raging rhinos to get Obama to ask her. He doesn't want a Vice President capable of getting more attention than he does, and she doesn't want to have the job Gore and Dan Quayle had.
Will she stay or will she go? Elizabeth Kolbert has a nice perspective in the New Yorker, (and she quotes my favorite "celestial choir" line) but I tend to think she'll fold the tent soon. Why did she choose to meet superdelegates at the DNC headquarters today, and then duck the question of whether she met with Howard Dean? Is this the beginning of the end? The popular wisdom is that she'll go the distance and quit after the rules committee meets and the primaries end--and as usual, I agree with the popular wisdom. Although I always knew McCain would be the nominee. America wasn't going to go for Rudy or Mr. Mormon Underwear. Who, as I'll still predict, looks even more than the aforementioned Dan Quayle like someone who was born to be Vice President.
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