Is Toxic Annie right about something? I listened to her this morning.

[yellowcanine]

(Opposition Research, somebody has to do it.) She is on her high horse about immigration. Says Tancredo is going to mount a third party run in 2008 and drain enough votes away from McCain to hand the election to Hillary. (Interestingly she actually seemed excited about the prospect of Hillary as president). I hope she is right.

[Deep13]

1. Who's Tancredo?

[yellowcanine]

2. Congressman Tom Tancredo, R, CO, House Group for Immigration "Reform"

http://tancredo.house.gov/

[killerbush]

3. The only reason Axis Annie is happy with a Clinton victory

Is so she bash Hillary all day long. It was like Limbaugh in 1992 on the cover of TV Guide, when he said he was glad Bill Clinton won. It set him up to trash Clinton for the next 8 years.:dunce:

[Warpy]

4. She's a nutcase

Hillary Clinton is the one candidate the party could run who would LOSE, even with a partially split GOP.

Tancredo may be just as bonkers as she is, but I sincerely doubt he's going to be the one to run a third party challenge.

Religious wack jobs are getting more demanding and more desperate as they see their aim of a theocracy tantalizingly close. My guess is that if they don't get their way in the next 2 years, they will be the ones with the third party challenger.

[yellowcanine]

5. Tancredo might be willing to carry water for the religious wack jobs.

Anti-immigrantism and religious wack jobism are not mutually exclusive.

[Vidar]

10. Let's try drafting Pat Robertson for a third parry.

[BonnieJW]

7. Agreed

There is no way in the world Hillary can possibly win. Even Dem men won't be able to cope with a woman leader. And what if she had a man as a running mate? She would be the boss and the VP would be taking orders from her. Men can't handle that. Hillary should concentrate on being the senator of New York because she isn't going any farther than that. Maybe governor of NY but even that's a stretch.

[yellowcanine]

8. You really sell Dem men short. It isn't true that we won't vote for women

as leaders or that we would object to a woman as president and a man as VP. Hillary's problem isn't that men won't vote for her. It is that she is perceived by many as being too opportunistic and not really paying attention to the needs of common people. Bill could teach Hillary a lot about connecting with people on the campaign trail. I don't think it is too late for her to correct those perceptions - because personnally I think they are wrong. I do wonder about her political instincts sometimes though. She needs to get a couple of good political advisors and listen to them.

[saltpoint]

6. I wouldn't put it past Tancredo to try a third-party run fueled by

anti-immigration fervor, etc., but I disagree with Coulter that Senator Clinton is a shoe-in for the nomination, or for that matter, that McCain is a shoe-in for the Thugs.

There's one scenario that has a brokered convention for both parties, with McCain, Romney, Allen, and the CAT BUTCHER duking it out for the GOP and the Dems' line-up grappling for delegates a few months later.

Tancredo might do what Coulter says but it remains to be seen which nominee his run takes votes from.

[DFW]

9. I can't believe this

After even Germany, macho as the place is, accepted a woman
chancellor, and at that, one who has zero sex appeal, but
plenty of smarts and the will and finesse to do the job,
do we still have to fear Democratic men in the USA being
intimidated by the prospect of a woman president?

Give us men a little credit and a little faith. If "Angie"
can handle it here in Germany and win acceptance and even
applause from her male colleagues, I think it is time Hillary's
gender stopped being labeled as a detrimental factor to her
chances. Her positions and her votes in the Senate are what
will make or break her--at least as the party is concerned.
I hope so, anyway. The half billion dollars that scum like
Richard Mellon-Scaife et al would throw at thwarting her
would come from the other side, not from ours.