Safire: Never Love a Stranger - What the hell is he talking about?

[La_Serpiente]

It looks like Safire is expecting Democrats to lose next year or something.
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Never Love a Stranger
By WILLIAM SAFIRE

Published: November 12, 2003

WASHINGTON — Both power centers of the Democratic establishment — the Kennedy left and the Clinton middle — are frantic at the prospect of losing control of their party to Howard Dean. They fear a McGovernesque debacle that would hand the G.O.P. a super-majority in the Senate.

Clintonites were first to take the Dean threat seriously. As reported gleefully in this space (full disclosure: I'm rooting for Dean's candidacy in hopes of the debacle), the Clinton crowd surrounded ex-Gen. Wesley Clark with Clinton managers, spinmeisters, pollsters and fund-raisers and marched him into battle against Dean.

The Clinton political strategy was, as usual, astute: let Dick Gephardt slow Dean down in Iowa, then push Clark hard enough to upset Dean in New Hampshire, or at least attract enough of the isolationist vote from Dean to let John Kerry squeak through.

Of course, if the national economy had gone south, Hillary would have gone South with Clark on her ticket to take on an unemployment-ravaged Bush herself. But with the economy surging and Democrats robbed of their central issue, Hillary can wait till 2008. It is in the Clintons' interest for the 2004 Democratic nominee to lose respectably, not in a landslide, laying the basis for a 2008 comeback that would be impossible if Dean were in the White House.
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This article is:

[frank frankly]

1. Safire is a rambling old fool with a combover for a cock

If I ever read him and Brooks back-to-back, I would never be able to read again!

[Isome]

2. a what 4 a what? ... 2 funny! n/t

[Zorra]

3. Bwahaa-haahaa-haaaha......Bwaahaaa-haaahaa-haaa

"It is in the Clintons' interest for the 2004 Democratic nominee to lose respectably, not in a landslide, laying the basis for a 2008 comeback that would be impossible if Dean were in the White House."

It's Clinton's fault!:beer:

[frank frankly]

4. yes, more proof that Safire is insane

Safire, you are a fool. A dangerous fool.

[beanball]

5. Safire

go home the kingfish is calling.