Dreams, Not Reality
March 9th, 2008The Clintons are talking up the possibility of a Clinton-Obama ticket. I don’t believe the purpose of this chatter to be genuine or noble — I think the Clinton machine wants people to believe that they will give him the Vice Presidency and then they won’t, because there is definitely a clash between them and while that is not always a deciding factor — Ford did not want Dole, Reagan did not want Bush, for instance — it should be with a woman as vindictive and political as Hillary Clinton, althought those two characteristics might indeed insist that she’ll choose him for the sake of getting certain voters on board her campaign. For her to select him, genuinely, were she to win the nomination, would necessitate that her campaign and the party believes a Clinton/Obama ticket “almost unbeatable” as Bill Clinton put it, and I’m not sure that is the case. We would have a candidate who provides no new states to the balance and a high-negatives candidate at the top of the ticket; that isn’t to mention the fact that his potential for high-negatives would be added to the ticket, by which I mean that his ties to the Chicago slumlord, the “Muslim” allegations and his race would still be used and perhaps be more effective. People might picture him as a Manchurian candidate of sorts, and they’re already starting to do that. Another knock against this idea is that he’d overshadow her quite often on the campaign trail, which is always unacceptable to the nominee. Will either choose the other? I don’t think so, but they might, and if they do I do not believe it will be a positive for the campaign or the party. A Midwestern Governor, or a Southern leader, would be the ideal selection, but we should name a nominee before we talk about the Vice Presidency. I just thought I should make my notes on this new idea which I consider unrealistic and politically inadvisable, whatever Bill Clinton might say to the contrary.