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In reply to the discussion: The Rising Tide of Populism in the Dem Party Spells Trouble for Hillary [View all]calimary
(81,179 posts)All things being equal - for me anyway, back in 2008 - it came down to "she voted for the war (and shoulda known better) and he didn't. So for me, he wins the toss."
I hope she's had enough time to study and learn from that - to gain a very effective takeaway for whatever plans for high office she may have. She very well could have won it in 2008 but for her vote for that damn war. I hope to God she's learned from that. But even if she hasn't, I still highly doubt that if she won in 2016 she'd be bringing in a group of leftover PNACers - the way mccain and romney would have. Dems surround themselves with different people who embrace different ideologies and world views than republi-CONS do. And not only in foreign policy matters. I doubt that a second-term Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale would have brought in some friend-of-strip-miners-and-drill-baby-drillers to run the Interior Department the way Saint ronnie did with that ASSHOLE james watt, for example.