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RUSH: Frank Rich of the New York Times is concerned about the future ‘electability\u2019 of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He opened his piece in the New York Times today with this: ‘The Democrats can\u2019t lose the White House in 2008, can they? … So nothing can go wrong for the Democrats. Can it? Of course it can, and not just because of the party\u2019s perennial penchant for cutting off its nose to spite its face. (Witness the Democratic National Committee\u2019s zeal in shutting down primary campaigning in Florida because the state moved up the primary\u2019s date.)\u2019 Let me talk about that for a second. I\u2019ve had that on the list of things to explain. The dirty little secret about this is Florida moves up its primary date, and the Democrat Party says, ‘You can\u2019t do that. We\u2019re in charge of primary dates here, and you\u2019re screwing up the system. If you do that we\u2019re going to deny your delegates a convention and we\u2019re not going to allow any campaigning in Florida.\u2019 Well, guess who that benefits? I\u2019ll give you one guess who that benefits, folks. Who is leading in Florida by 30 points? Mrs. Clinton. She doesn\u2019t need to campaign here. She doesn\u2019t need to spend any money here. It\u2019s the other guys that do, the Barack Obamas and the Breck Girls and so forth. They are not permitted to campaign against her. She has a 30-point lead. So for all this talk about the DNC penalizing Florida, yip yip yip yip yahoo. <\/p>\n

What they\u2019re actually doing is cementing Florida for Mrs. Clinton, and this is crucial because she\u2019s trailing by four points in Iowa right now to Barack Obama. Of course, this is still way, way early, but Rich says, ‘The biggest indicator of potential trouble ahead is that the already-codified Beltway narrative for the race so favors the Democrats. Given the track record of Washington\u2019s conventional wisdom, that\u2019s not good news,\u2019 and he\u2019s exactly right about that. ‘These are the same political pros who predicted that scandal would force an early end to the Clinton presidency and that ‘Mission Accomplished\u2019 augured victory in Iraq and long-lasting Republican rule.\u2019 Rich talks about how everybody praised Mrs. Clinton\u2019s appearances last Sunday, a week ago, on all five Sunday morning shows. But, Frank Rich says, ‘What I saw on television was the incipient second coming of the can\u2019t-miss 2000 campaign of Al Gore. That Gore, some may recall, was not the firebrand who emerged from defeat, speaking up early against the Iraq war and leading the international charge on global warming. It was instead the cautious Gore whose public persona changed from debate to debate and whose answers were often long-winded and equivocal… Incredibly, he minimized both his environmental passions and his own administration\u2019s achievements throughout the campaign.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Then he goes on to talk about Mrs. Clinton. ‘Then there was that laugh. The Clinton campaign\u2019s method for heeding the perennial complaints that its candidate comes across as too calculating and controlled is to periodically toss in a smidgen of what it deems personality. But these touches of intimacy seem even more calculating: the ‘Let\u2019s chat\u2019 campaign rollout, the ostensibly freewheeling but tightly controlled Web ‘conversations,\u2019 the supposed vox populi referendum to choose a campaign song (which yielded a plain-vanilla Celine Dion clunker). Now Clinton is erupting in a laugh with all the spontaneity of an alarm clock buzzer. Mocking this tic last week, ‘The Daily Show\u2019 imagined a robotic voice inside the candidate\u2019s head saying, ‘Humorous remark detected — prepare for laughter display.” But here\u2019s the real kicker: ‘None of this would matter if the only issue were Clinton\u2019s ability as a performer. Not every president can be Reagan or JFK or, for that matter, Bill Clinton. But in her case, as in Gore\u2019s in 2000, the performance too often dovetails with the biggest question about her as a leader: Is she so eager to be all things to all people, so reluctant to offend anyone, that we never will learn what she really thinks or how she will really act as president?\u2019<\/p>\n

Hey, Frank, let me help you out on that, because I really want to. That\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s not that she\u2019s afraid to offend anybody. She is afraid to specifically tell people what she wants to do because that would be the end of her, Frank. She is a hard-core liberal. Hard-core liberals do not win national elections. She knows this. She\u2019s not going to be honest about what she really thinks. She\u2019s not worried about offending anybody. Mrs. Clinton is worried about being offended by other people, or gets angry when she gets offended. She\u2019s not worried about offending people here. She has no desire to ‘open up\u2019 about what she really thinks or how she will really act as president because it would be the end of her. ‘So far her post-first-lady record suggests a follower rather than a leader,\u2019 Frank Rich writes. ‘She still can\u2019t offer a credible explanation of why she gave President George W. Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq (or why she voted against the Levin amendment that would have put on some diplomatic brakes). That\u2019s because her votes had more to do with hedging her political bets than with principle.\u2019 Yep, that\u2019s probably exactly right. She figures she needs to be pro-war to win in the general election, Frank, and she can\u2019t win the general election as an anti-war candidate. Ask George McGovern. It just isn\u2019t going to happen, and so she has to hedge her bets on it. That\u2019s why she won\u2019t apologize for it. This primary season, it\u2019s just something for her to endure and put up with and get through, and she\u2019s not going to blow it in the way you want her to. <\/p>\n

‘As was proved again in Wednesday night\u2019s debate, her opponents have not yet figured out how to seriously challenge her.\u2019 Yes, they know how to seriously challenge her, they\u2019re just afraid to because she\u2019s a woman, and so they\u2019re sending their wives out to do it. ‘At the same time, her campaign works relentlessly to shut down legitimate journalistic vetting of her record.\u2019 That\u2019s not a good thing for Hillary to hear from the New York Times, because it\u2019s true. ‘In the latest example, Politico.com reported last week on the murky backstage machinations by the Clinton camp before the magazine GQ killed an article by Joshua Green, whose 2006 Atlantic Monthly profile judged Clinton a practitioner of ‘systematic caution\u2019 with ‘no big ideas.” Did you hear the Clinton campaign canceled the cover story, said if you run that story, Bill Clinton will not be granting access to GQ. But it\u2019s not just GQ, because GQ is owned by Cond&eacute; Nast, and Cond&eacute; Nast owns what? Vanity Fair, the New Yorker. If Bill Clinton says, (doing Clinton impression) ‘Hey, hey, you run that story and I am not giving your publication any access, and you can forget it. You can write me off.\u2019 They say, ‘I can\u2019t put him on the cover. I can\u2019t make any money.\u2019 So that\u2019s how they killed the story. The Politico.com has more worries on the same concerns that Frank Rich has. She\u2019s so infused with ambition and artifice, she cannot connect to voters. She doesn\u2019t dare try to connect to voters because it would be the end of her. She\u2019s sitting here almost royalty-like just demanding to be coronated. That\u2019s her attitude about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Frank Rich of the New York Times is concerned about the future ‘electability\u2019 of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He opened his piece in the New York Times today with this: ‘The Democrats can\u2019t lose the White House in 2008, can they? … So nothing can go wrong for the Democrats. Can it? 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