"Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore: The Gores want to step out of the Clintons' shadows," ran the caption of this 2000-campaign-season photo. Body language says it all.
"You know, people are thinking of Mrs. Clinton's running for president. I think Mrs. Bush ought to run for president," Lynn Cheney told Larry King LIVE! yesterday:
"If we want to have a Bush dynasty, let's get Laura Bush."
The vice president, who again ruled out making his own run for president when Bush's term ends, agreed.
"It's a great idea," Dick Cheney said. "And I think I know who would win too."
Big time. And doesn't it blow out all the cobwebs just to compare the calm and centered majesty of the principled, iron-hand-in-velvet-gloved Laura Bush with the disingenuous, all-over-the-political-field, power-crazed HRC, a fatally flawed if mighty battle-scarred woman warrior who'll say anything to anyone if she thinks it will further her political career? Frightening what some poll or other claimed the other day, that over half the American people would vote for Hillary! for president if the election were held today. It can't be. But on to what the chatterers are chattering about. Drudge mentions the Laura story but scare headlines with a ghastly photograph of the once "hot" Bill Clinton -- never quite up to snuff since heart surgery -- as a ghost of his former self. There's a new book that rehashes -- with intimate details never before revealed! -- the Clinton scandals. Been there, done that. Somehow, our heart just isn't in it any more. Our favorite tidbit from Drudge's exclusive:
Tipper Gore was so disgusted in 2000 with Bill and Hillary that she stayed cloistered in a holding room instead of going to a New York reception with major Democratic fundraisers where the Clintons would be. "No, I'm not doing it," she snapped to an aide. "I'm not going out there with that man."
We always had a good gut feeling about Tipper. Too bad she wasn't more of an influence on her clueless hubby. Our curling toes told us years ago that the Clintons were no damned good. In hindsight, the MSM's embrace of all things Clinton speaks for itself. What's the point of going over it again now? Good for book sales? Get it out of the way now to clear the way for Hillary's run? To us it's of no more interest than whether or not we will be forced to view photographs of Michael Jackson's genitals. And that's even lower than the bottom of the barrel.
I am still - after all these years - trying to figure out how anyone can find Bill Clinton "hot". This is something that has puzzled me since he first became a major name in politics... I just don't get it. The attraction that people keep gushing about eludes me - completely.
Although I am thinking nicer thoughts about Tipper Gore after reading this!
Posted by: Teresa | May 31, 2005 at 08:37 AM
I'm totally with you, Teresa. Bubba always left me cold, but as we both know, women, like men, are fools for love. :)
Posted by: Sissy Willis | May 31, 2005 at 08:41 AM
Having met the man in person, he didn't do anything for me. Trust me the man has NO sex appeal at all .. but then I'm a conservative, not a liberal -- maybe that's the problem ??? Hmmm -- personally, anyone that can get the truth out there about Billary and her sex starved husband is okay in my book. If she'd worried more about her husband than her own political career, would we really have had monicagate? Who knows. But these polls are so skewed to the liberal left, they obviously didn't ask me or my friends about it, they will say anything to get Billary in the White House -- and then suffer from there. Sick people do sick things. Getting Billary to run is a sick thing.
Posted by: Jo | May 31, 2005 at 02:10 PM