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Jen the Michigander


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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/06/on_hillary_and_2012.html

Specifically, two notions have bubbled up among the Beltway chattering class - much of it attributed to unnamed sources, if at all. The first was floated by the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, who started a recent column by bluntly suggesting: "Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs." Her reasoning begins with the idea that Clinton has established herself as a loyal cog in her former rival's administration and that Biden, while "rehabilitated," would not be quite as potent a political force in the Obama re-election effort.

An early version of the story posted online said that this scheme "is being discussed in administration circles" -- a line that is now omitted (a Post spokeswoman says editors removed the line "because we were not going to name Sally's sources"). Regardless, Quinn still implores us to: "Take it seriously," and at least one reporter who attended a recent availability at the State Department apparently did. CNN's Jill Dougherty asked Clinton about the idea at the end of a longer question about the situation in Kyrgyzstan.

"Let's stick to Kyrgyzstan," Clinton replied with a laugh.

Another storyline that has bubbled up again is the idea of Clinton actually challenging Obama in his run for re-election. Speculation of this sort has never really gone away, but rarely was floated as seriously as it was in a column this weekend from the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. Writing about reaction to Obama's Oval Office address, she says: "Sooner or later the secretary of state is going to come under fairly consistent pressure to begin to consider 2012."

Reacting to that column and other such talk, Peter Beinart calls it "wishful thinking" on the GOP's part, and notes that "there's no groundswell within the [Democratic] party for a primary challenge."

Maybe not within the party. But amongst the political reporting class -- that's another question entirely.

I don't see why it would be wishful thinking for the GOP if Hillary challenged Obama in 2012-- wouldn't they want him to be the nominee? The GOP has candidates who can beat Obama; they don't have anybody who could beat Hillary. Her approval ratings speak for themselves.



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I don't see why it would be wishful thinking for the GOP if Hillary challenged Obama in 2012-- wouldn't they want him to be the nominee? The GOP has candidates who can beat Obama; they don't have anybody who could beat Hillary. Her approval ratings speak for themselves.

Jen, that was my first thought, as well.  We've seen the polls, and Hill leads Republicans and Dems.

I really hope there's no truth to the assertion that Hillary will replace Joe.  Big mistake all the way around.  We don't need Biden as SOS, and Hillary as VP?!  Wrong on several levels!!


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