The Real Nightmare Ticket

"What does Hillary want?" Nobody can say for sure! (Other than to be President, I mean.) It's the day after Barack's glorious coronation and emotions are running high. Exultant Obama supporters (unlike their classy & magnanimous candidate) are crowing and sending around videos like this (good job putting it together so quickly, by the way)--

--while the sour and self-righteous Harriet Christians of the country are grimly vowing to kneecap their own party because an "inadequate black male" got the nomination instead of their woman. Everybody's got a different idea about what Hillary's next move will be, but at this point it seems pretty fair to say she'll do almost anything for power.

So what's the next best thing to being president? vice-president. But Obama doesn't like her, doesn't want her, and certainly won't let her pull a Cheney and hook puppet strings to the back of his neck. She'd be better off as McCain's VP pick. Her supporters would cross over--probably enough of them to cancel out the die-hard Republicans that he'd lose by choosing her. And those die-hard Republicans wouldn't move to Obama to replace the Democratic defectors -- they'd vote for Bob Barr or write in Huckabee's name.

The McCain-Clinton ticket would win the election and, considering McCain's age, Hillary would be looking at a much better shot at being president than she would have been as Obama's VP. And she'd be the monster that destroyed the Democrats -- who would totally deserve it, because they were just too selfish and immature to see that they owed her the presidency.

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Comments

[noneIn2008]

McCain and Hillary could win. The real conservatives already hate McCain, they would never vote Obama. Their only real choice is Bob Barr.
She would pull voters in the swing states and not lose them in the solid Republican states or only lose them to Barr, but they would still win the states electoral votes.

[Siryn]

She would galvanize her white female supporters but would alienate half of the Republican party. She is an albatross on any ticket.

[dottedzebra]

If this article is supposed to be serious, here's the sentence that is in no way accurate:

"Her supporters would cross over--probably enough of them to cancel out the die-hard Republicans that he'd lose by choosing her. "

He'd lose ALL Republicans. You think they'd vote for her as a joke? They hate her with everything they have. He'd get some independents but NO Republicans.

[GoodGuysandBadGuys]

hillary on any ticket will be a sure loss.

she has very little support outside of the people who have already voted for her. republicans have a convention, just like the dems - do you really think that the republicans will nominate mccain if he has chosen hillary as a running mate? no way! they'll ask mitt romney to come back before they'd put hillary on their ticket..

[billbird]

This is so ridiculous!

[mortrefuge]

Would not surprise me one bit.

[SouthFloridaDem]

I sure hope this is snark, because no one owes her the presidency. No one.

[ljmck]

Bitterly enjoyable!

[blaqntelligence]

Excellent article.

I love this site. One of the few places where the contributors, usually, display good ol' common sense.
Again, thank you.

[Yohomegirl]

Perfectly Riotious! I still think we Dems would win, and it would make this coming five months a belly laugh for sure!

[Rule Of Law]

Just as Obama brought Edwards onto his team after his loss in W. Virginia, he will wait for Hillary to make her concession and at the moment the cameras should be on her, he will one up her one last time with his VP pick of "anybody but..."

[MPeter]

This is so brilliantly done. The Clintons are not human. Obama cannot allow them near him. They are worse than Glenn Close in Fatal Attractions. They have destroyed their legacy and shredded any respect they ever enjoyed.

[Gma11]

Love intelligent and nonviolent satire!!

[jvarga]

Wait she's owed the Presidency?