Harley Sorensen : The Hillary Bait And Switch

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/11/15/hsorensen.DTL

Okay, Democrats, here's how you win back the presidency in '08 ...
Between now and the 2008 primaries, you promote the candidacy of one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Mrs. Clinton, the temp senator from New York, drives the conservatives nuts. She is, as her name implies, a female, and thus, in their eyes, uppity ... if she has the audacity to run for public office, which she does.

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So what I'm suggesting is the Democrats offer up Hillary as a target for conservative wrath over the next four years. Let the conservatives, the Republicans, the fascists -- all those people on the other side -- focus their venom on her. They already detest Hillary, so let them have at her.

Then, at the last moment, pull a switcheroo. Thank Mrs. Clinton for her role as stalking horse, and then nominate a real liberal for president.

It'll confuse the dickens out the Republicans....

[Eric J in MN]

1. It sort of happened that way this year, with Howard Dean

being attacked and then John Kerry being the actual candidate.

It wasn't enough, though.

[sybylla]

2. No, he said "real liberal"

Kerry was only a real liberal in the eyes of the pukes.