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Clinton-Obama A 2008 Dem Dream Team?

Posted by: Mike's America @ 12:08 pm in Barack Obama

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Hey Newt, you’re behind the curve, I’ve been saying this for weeks:

Gingrich Predicts Clinton-Obama Ticket
Associated Press
Jul 29,2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats will nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2008 and Barack Obama will be her running mate, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicts.

The GOP will have three "formidable" choices in Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, said Gingrich, who is considering whether to get into the race.

Gingrich is ruling out John McCain’s chances among the Republican contenders.

The Arizona senator "has taken positions so deeply at odds with his party’s base that I don’t see how he can get the nomination," Gingrich said Sunday in a broadcast interview.

Gingrich said he had dinner recently with Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and actor who has set up a political committee that allows him to raise money for a presidential bid. An official launch is likely in September, after the Labor Day holiday.

Gingrich said he expects Thompson will enter what is shaping up as a competitive race for the GOP nomination against Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, and Giuliani, a former New York City mayor.

"I think that either Mayor Giuliani or Governor Romney or Senator Thompson would be a very formidable opponent for what I expect will be a Clinton-Obama ticket, and I think that there’s a possibility that will work," Gingrich said.

In the fall, Gingrich might decide to jump in, depending on how the Republican candidates are faring against Clinton, the New York senator.

"If there is a vacuum and if there’s a real need for somebody to be prepared to debate Senator Clinton, then I would consider running. I think we’ll know that in October," Gingrich said.

"But these three are serious people," Gingrich said, referring to Romney, Giuliani and Thompson. "They’re working very hard. And if they can fill the vacuum, I don’t feel any great need to run."

Transcript of the full interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is here.

C&O A Formidable Ticket?

Imagine the headlines: First woman President, first black Vice President. The liberal "news" media will report this as the Second Coming (something which they probably would NOT report if it happened).

Objectivity on the life and death issues of national importance be damned! It’ll be a left wing media love fest the likes of which we’ve never seen!

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David

As for Newt himself, I don’t see him as being that competitive. Not in the Republican field, and neither in a general election match-up against Hillary.

July 29th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Newt’s best reply on FOX this morning was when Wallace asked him about Iraq and the aftermath of cut and run. His answer should be echoed by all od our potential nominees verbatim, it is a devastating slash against these rotten bastards. And Feingold, who was on next, just would not answer the question.

Newt is a smart MoFo, glad he feels this need for public service. He speaks directly, concisely, and never evades a question. It is night and day listening to him and than Feingold. Too bad we’ll never get to see him directly debate HRC. That’s pay per view baby.

July 29th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

richard mcenroe

Gingrich couldn’t even debate Algore on global warming. Hillary would kick his ass.

July 29th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Mike

David: As usual, Newt gives us material that could make a week’s worth of posts.

From the interview:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291301,00.html

We’re faced with problems I think that are fully as great as those that faced Lincoln and Douglas in the 1850s, and yet we have reduced our political dialogue to a point where literally potential would-be leaders of the most powerful government in the world stand meekly in line waiting for somebody to pick a question, and the question can be anything.
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GINGRICH: I think the great dilemma of America today Ã¢â‚¬” and if we don’t solve it, it will become a tragedy Ã¢â‚¬” is that the Republicans don’t recognize the scale of the performance failure of government as a system, and the Democrats are living in a fantasy land in terms of their policy proposals.
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The Democrats are offering a series of policies that have no hope of working in the real world, but they at least sound better than the performance failure.

I think this is truly one of the most important political processes in American history and that we have to come to grips with how much trouble we’re in and how deep the problems are.
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I do think a president has an obligation to say to the country, “You can’t compete with China and India if your education system is failing,” and that has to be solved locally.

And frankly, I think the federal Department of Education is not a useful asset in trying to solve that.
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WALLACE: Finally, and we have about a minute left, on Iraq, Senator Feingold is already calling and already voting to start pulling troops out starting in 120 days, with most forces out by next April.

Why do you think that some Democrats want to start pulling out troops even before General Petraeus gets a chance to issue his progress report in September?

GINGRICH: The left wing of the Democratic Party is deeply opposed to American victory and deeply committed to American defeat.

In 1975, when there were no Americans left in Vietnam, the left wing of the Democratic Party killed the government of South Vietnam, cut off all of its funding, cut off all of its ammunition, and sent a signal to the world that the United States had abandoned its allies.

What I would say to any Democrat who wants America to leave is quite simple. Millions of Iraqis have sided with the United States. They are known in their neighborhoods. They are known in their cities. If we abandon them, they are going to be massacred.

How can you, in good conscience, walk away from these decent people and leave them behind to a fate which we’ve seen, for example, in Afghanistan, where the Taliban recently was machine-gunning girls as they walked to school because the Taliban is determined to stop women from getting educated?

We are faced with evil opponents. Those opponents need to be defeated. And if General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker come back in September and say, “We actually can win this thing,” I want to understand the rationale that says, “No, we don’t want to let America win. Let’s legislate defeat for the United States.”

I couldn’t have said it better. If I could, I would be running for President.

July 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

scrapiron

Shrillary, Slick ane Osama Obama on the same ticket. That would be an explosion of ego’s the world has never seen. Poor Osama would be found sitting on a park bench with a bullet through his head and the habitual criminal Shrillary would name Slick as the new VP as the Radical religion of peace burned half the world for killing one of theirs.

July 29th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

Step back from the bong Rich, HRC is a lightweight.

July 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

dyork85518

I would be absolutely terrified for the safety and future of this country if Clinton/or Obama (especially Obama, and I’m from Chicago) won the Presidency. Their far left wing views with a far left wing House and Senate would be the Socialist demise of this country to which it might take years to recover. The economic impact of their proposed tax increases/repeals of the Bush tax cuts (which is a major reason to why our economy is extremely healthy right now) would possibly be something that we would never recover from. China and India are going to pass us, and this would almost ensure that it would be sooner rather than later.

August 6th, 2007 at 11:11 pm