Hillary Clinton has a once in a lifetime opportunity coming up in 2012. She can appeal to centrist Democrats and independents and wrestle Obama's automatic incumbency to the ground. The key will be the states passing laws that require proof of citizenship in order for the states electors to certify a candidate for president. This will require Hillary to co-opt the birthers. If Hillary steps down as Secretary of State in the next year or so, then you know she's going to go for it. Of course, in states with open primaries, Republicans in droves would vote for Hillary during the primary season. If Hillary can pull the rug out from Obama, the Republicans can put Palin up for a UFC style battle to be the first woman to occupy the presidency. The perfecta of American politics thus achieved. Someone like Alan West would be a great VP pick for Palin.
If Obama overcomes (as a truly sociopathic individual, he will likely find a way), then the Republicans will have to run something like a Fred Thompson/Mitt Romney ticket or vice-versa. Palin will have to settle for Energy Secretary in a new administration ... not a bad place. Romney could come at the public with the perspective that the government should be run like a business and not like a hungry amorphous amoeba feeding off the shrinking private sector. Fred Thompson has that fatherly advice thing going for him. He could win in the field of ideas and on the basis of his generational wisdom ... the wisdom of the founding fathers, etc.
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10/22/2010 Update
Rush is calling for operation Chaos II. Chaos in reverse. Best hope for Hillary Democrats is to protest the Obama-ites by staying home on Nov. 2. Let the Republicans wave in and stand up to Obama. Hillary then has a better shot at challenging the sitting president in the primary for 2012.
Regardless, we need states to stiffen their certification process. Remember: Hillary is the original birther. We want the proof in 2012.
Praying for the health of Supreme Court justices.
