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BlogRead the full blog at National Review Online Hillary Wants the Women Doesn't the question of whether or not Hillary can be stopped if she is the candidate really depend on the independent women voters in a couple of key states. The women who were the "security moms" last election. Her moan last weekend about "what's the matter with kids today" was directed right at those moms. The mothers who were doing a couple extra loads of laundry on Sunday because their twenty-something kids, no matter what they earn, had come home for Mother's Day and brought with them a suitcase or two of dirty clothes just for Mom. The Letters Page of Rupert's Paper Call Me Mr. Grumpy Actually, that was one of the many endearing nicknames my staff had for me when I was editing the editorial page of the Washington Times. C'mon, John, you remember what it was like looking for a job just out of college in 1982. There weren't any. It was one nasty mother of a recession the like of which has not been seen since, including thebusting of the tech bubble. Is it true that Chelsea went to work for McKinsey for six figures when she got back from Oxbridge? Well, if it is, and deflating to 1982 dollars, that would be about $50,000 a year. I don't remember anybody starting our in the workforce at $50,000 a year, MBAs and lawyers possibly (possibly) excepted. Irving Kristol paid me $11,500 as assistant editor of the Public Interest, bless him. So I say these kids today have some nerve complaining! You tell 'em, Hillary! AOL Makes a Freudian Slip An alert reader saved a web-image of AOL's front page at 2:45 PM that mixed up headlines and subheds about Hillary Clinton's criticism of young people's laziness and the Duke lacrosse-team case: It looked kind of like like this before they pulled it down: Hillary Apologizes to Chelsea Can Al Gore Stop Her? K-Lo, my feeling is that Al Gore spent most of 2003 and 2004 kicking himself repeatedly in the shins for choosing not to run again in 2004. On the other hand, can a global-warming candidacy really carry someone to the presidency? Even he has to ask himself that question. Please Nominate This Man Again?
Susan Estrich writes: There is a new name on Democrats’ lips. Or rather, an old one. He is the one man who could stop Hillary Clinton. If. If he runs. If the stars are right. But he could. Hillary's Mothers' Day Grief Chelsea says Mom, I'm not lazy! Bet Al Thinks He Can Stop Her FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE MAKES SURPRISE APPEARANCE ON "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" MAY 13 Mock Presidential Address Kicks Off Penultimate Episode Joins Returning Alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Musical Guest Paul Simon NEW YORK - May 13, 2006 - Former Vice President (and former SNL host) Al Gore made a surprise appearance on the landmark comedy show this evening, appearing in the show's opening sketch, which imagined a parallel world where he was President...global warming was a thing of the past, gas was nineteen cents a gallon and George Clooney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A transcript of the mock Presidential Address follows: DON PARDO: "And now a message from the President of the United States of America." AL GORE: "Good evening my fellow Americans. In 2000 when you overwhelmingly made the decision to elect me as your 43rd President, I knew the road ahead would be difficult. We have accomplished so much, yet challenges lie ahead. In the last six years, we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack. As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine. But I assure you, we will not let the glaciers win. Right now in the second week of May 2006, we are facing perhaps the worst gas crisis in history. We have way too much gasoline! Gas is down to nineteen cents a gallon and the oil companies are hurting. I know that I am partly to blame, by insisting that cars run on trash. I am therefore proposing a Federal bail-out to our oil companies because hey, if it were the other way around, you know the oil companies would help us. On a positive note, we worked hard to save welfare, fix social security and of course, provide the universal health care we all enjoy today. But all this came at a high cost. As I speak, the gigantic National Budget Surplus is down to a perilously low 11 trillion dollars. And don't get any ideas. That money is staying in the very successful lock box. We're not touching it. Of course, we could give economic aid to China or lend money to the Saudis again, but right now we are already so loved by everyone in the world that American tourists can't even go over to Europe anymore without getting hugged. There are some of you would like to spend our money on some made-up war we could make up. To you I say, 'what part of lockbox don't you understand?' What if there's a hurricane or a tornado? Unlikely I know, because of the anti-hurricane and tornado machine I was instrumental in helping to develop...but what if? What if the scientists are right and one of those giant glaciers hits Boston? That's why we have the lockbox. As for immigration, solving it came at a heavy cost and I personally regret the loss of California. However, the new Mexifornian economy is strong and El Presidente Schwarzenegger is doing a great job. There have been some setbacks. Unfortunately, the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Michael Moore was bitter and divisive. However, I couldn't be more proud of how the House and Senate pulled together to confirm the nomination of Chief Justice George Clooney. Baseball, our national pastime still lies under a shadow of steroid accusations. But I have faith in Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush when he says, 'we will find the steroid users if we have to tap every phone in America.' In 2001, when I came into office, our national security was the most important issue. The threat of terrorism was real. Who knew that six years later, Afghanistan would be the most popular spring break destination, that Six Flags Tehran is the fastest growing amusement park in the Mideast and the scariest thing we Americas have to fear is ... Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!" Gore also made an appearance on "Weekend Update" where he participated in a "Point-Counterpoint" with co-anchor about global warming, the subject of his forthcoming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." The former Vice President took the position that global warming is bad while Poehler contended that it was "awesome." She Needs to Be Stopped Andrew Sullivan: Hillary, moreover, may be one nepotistic step too far. Americans are sick of dynasties and to have potentially 28 continuous years of presidents from two single families begins to make the United States look like a banana republic or a Tudor and Stuart pas de deux. I’m not just thinking of the terrible task that future students are going to have, trying to remember which Bush and which Clinton came when and did what; I mean simply that in a country of 300m, we really should be able to look beyond two families for leadership talent. More here. I Dunno, Maybe She Can Be Stopped Watch as Hillary turns herself into the Grumpy Old Man played by Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live, grousing about these darn kids today with their rock and roll and their television: "Kids, for whatever reason, think they're entitled to go right to the top with $50,000 or $75,000 jobs when they have not done anything to earn their way up....A lot of kids don't know what work is. They think work is a four-letter word." She was speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Strikes me that this is not the kind of tone a potential president should set, but then, people seemed to eat it up when Ross Perot did it. I'm Blushing From the Scrapbook in the Weekly Standard this week: "The Scrapbook's good friend and colleague, Weekly Standard contributing editor John Podhoretz, has just published an important book that belongs on every conservative's desk: Can She Be Stopped? Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless. . . . We hear an echo of our favorite political novel—Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?—in the title (although, of Trollope's great female leads, the one Hillary reminds us of most is not Alice Vavasor but Lizzie Eustace). And the answer, in both cases, is yes. But you'll have to read the book to find out how to stop Hillary. We predict you'll finish it not just girded for combat but surpassingly well entertained. While there will only ever be one Trollope, Podhoretz brings great good humor, uncommon wit, and a novelist's flair to his task." What's the best of all here is that Trollope is my favorite writer. Against Dynasticism Dude! If You Think Stopping Her Will Be Hard... Hillary: Smoking Her Out What K-Lo Hears On the Other Hand.... Is Kos a Hillary Plant? Two Hillary-Related Questions for JPod I'd like to be part of the kick-off here by picking John's brain on two Hillary-related topics: 1. On domestic policies, Hillary has been a conservative's nightmare. But on national security and the war on terror, she's been surprisingly and consistently hawkish. (She's a Democratic senator from New York, if she wanted to be a dove, she could get away with being a dove.) My father insists Hillary's war rhetoric and votes are mere political posturing and to give her credit for this is to succumb to the same siren's call that ultimately turned David Brock; I think she was genuinely traumatized and changed by 9/11. What's your call? 2. The New York Post has, in the past, credited Hillary for being a much better senator and representative of the state's interests than they expected. I too, expected her to be a primadonna and egomaniacal camera hog on the Hill, and have been surprised by her willingness to dive into the legislative grunt work and not-so-glamourous local issues. Could Hillary surprise us in other ways as she gets on the campaign trail? | | Permalink My Answer in the Cross-Blog Sweepstakes Thanks for the question about Can She Be Stopped?, John J. Miller! Right now — and of course we're two years away from the conclusion of the primary season in 2008 — I see no plausible scenario in which she is stopped by other Democrats. She's one of the two or three most famous people ever to run for president (Eisenhower and Grant being the only two others I can think of who were as or more famous than she). She will have more money than God, perhaps a hundred million more than her closest rival. She is 25 points up on any rival Democrat in the polls, and that includes the famous guys who might challenge her, like Gore and Kerry. Can someone run to her left? Maybe, although with the exception of her votes on Iraq, there isn't very much room to her left. She has a 95 percent liberal voting record. As for Warner, ask yourself whether there would be excitement about Mark Warner if he were, say, the governor of Kansas (also a Democrat, named Kathleen Sibelius) rather than Virginia, where so many reporters and pundits live. I think the answer is obviously no. | | Permalink Can She Be Stopped?--by Democrats CSBS? Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Welcome to the Blog My general proposition in this book is that Hillary is a very formidable candidate and that Republicans and conservatives had better focus on the electoral threat she presents in 2008 or else they and the country will reap the whirlwind. The book is as much about the doldrums into which the GOP has sailed and the profound temptation already being experienced by conservatives to fracture the 2004 coalition in pursuit of doctrinal purity. If that happens, Hillary wins. So it's simple. If you don't want Hillary to be president, you're probably going to have to swallow a little hard and accept that a viable Republican candidate for the presidency is going to disappoint you in one way or another. Such is life. | | Permalink Tuesday, May 9, 2006 I'll be in the media today—it would be great if you could tune in:
Today, May 4, the book was featured on the Drudge Report. Check out the posting here. "The shocking conclusion of the conservative NEW YORK POST columnist..." from the Drudge Report.
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About the Book
Could it really happen? Frighteningly, yes. In fact, as bestselling author and leading conservative commentator John Podhoretz reveals, this is not just a scary “what if” scenario; it will happen . . . unless conservatives take immediate action. Sounding the alarm bell with wit and verve, Can She Be Stopped? shows that Hillary’s plan to capture the White House is much further along than her enemies fear. Podhoretz uncovers the host of reasons why—many of them counterintuitive. He also destroys the comfortable myths about Clinton that conservatives cling to: She’s saddled with too many “high negatives.” She’s too liberal to get elected. “Clinton fatigue” will keep her out of the Oval Office. You’ve heard them all, and they’re wrong on every count. Read an ExcerptIntroduction: An Open Letter to Conservatives and Republicans PDF | Word Document | Website About the Author
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