The Amazing Race
January 20th, 2007Hillary Clinton has announced her candidacy for President, joining Barack Obama and John Edwards as a heavyweight. Tomorrow, Bill Richardson is going to join the race (or so the rumor goes) and we’ve got ourselves a race. I’ve already gone on record with my belief that Obama will lose (and that he deserves to, for not having done anything). I have a few more thoughts on the race: John Edwards has little chance, and I don’t like him. He jumped into the race in 2004 despite having little behind his name (like Obama this year) and now he has even less experience, given that he gave up his job as a Senator. Charisma might carry him to a respectable figure, but he’s bound to lose. As far as Richadson goes, I wouldn’t be stunned if it came to him and Hillary Clinton, and frankly, I think he might be the best candidate out there, along with Tom Vilsack, though they’ll only go so far as their team takes them.
John Kerry, on the other hand, is someone that I doubt does anything at all. He had his chance. Just guessing here, but I expect Hillary Clinton to be the frontrunner all through the race, and I expect her to control it through brute political force. That is, I expect her to be the one doing much of the savaging in this campaign, especially of Obama; I expect Obama to fizzle out when the voters realize that he has little to say about anything (though he’ll say it quite eloquently); I expect John Kerry to attempt to be the conscience of this race, Edwards to be a pander bear and Vilsack/Richardson to play spoiler, and potential Presidential candidate.
Should be fascinating on the Democratic end, but let’s not forget the Republicans, too, who have Sam Brownback, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee. Talk about an uninspiring and unsexy group, though I suppose someone sees something in them, since a few of them have been married so many times.