Hillary Clinton and John McCain are ‘very close,’ Bill Clinton says.
(CNN) — If Hillary Clinton and John McCain become their party’s presidential nominees, the general election race is likely to be a love-fest.
At least according to Bill Clinton.
Campaigning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Friday, the former president brushed aside suggestions his wife would prove to be a divisive nominee for the Democratic Party, pointing out how she has successfully worked with Republicans in the Senate — including one of the current GOP presidential candidates.
“She and John McCain are very close,” Clinton said. “They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they’re afraid they’d put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other.”
The comments may not be welcome by the McCain camp — which yesterday faced fire from several of its rivals from winning the backing of the New York Times — a longtime archenemy of conservatives.
Sens. McCain and Clinton last met publicly at an ABC debate earlier January, when presidential candidates of both parties shared the same stage. The two were seen exchanging pleasantries, and a Clinton side said she told the Arizona senator he’d done a “good job” staging a comeback in New Hampshire. He asked that she say hello to Bill Clinton for him.
Well, that put a damper on the evening…
Today Glenn Beck said that if it came down to Hillary and McCain he’d vote for Hillary because he couldn’t take seeing what McCain will have done to the party and conservatism. He said that if George Bush has “killed conservatism and put it in the coffin, then McCain will come with a nail gun, nail it shut and bury it 12 feet underground.”
Coming from Glenn Beck, that is an unsettling thought.
George –
In a matchup between the two HILLARY does have one advantage – Utter Ruthlessness!
-S-
Yeah, some people are arguing that given that kind of choice, the best option would be to choose today’s Carter equivalent so that she can mess things up just as much as Carter did. Once the country hits that real low, only can another Reagan be elected. But that’s just too risky a strategy, and there’s no Reagan waiting in the wings.
Yes it is most difficult, however, among Republicans the only one that can hold the non-Cuban “latino” vote is McCain because of his support of the failed immigration bill
rsluik:
“Yeah, some people are arguing that given that kind of choice, the best option would be to choose today’s Carter equivalent so that she can mess things up just as much as Carter did. Once the country hits that real low, only can another Reagan be elected. But that’s just too risky a strategy, and there’s no Reagan waiting in the wings.”
Good point. I say Carter and the Clintons are two different kinds of animals. Carter is a bitter fool. The Clintons, however are ruthless. Don’t believe for one minute they will give up the presidency after one term. The first thing they will do is stack the deck in their favor as they have always done. Bush never cleaned house as he should have when he got into office and naively kept a great deal of Clintonites in powerful positions.
According to Dick Morris, (who knows them well) they would prefer to run agains Huckabee or Romney any day before McCain. Don’t fool yourselves they would start bloodying McCain the day after his nomination.
By the way, all of you who think McCain is the big evil to the Republican party should read Peggy Noonan’s piece today in the WSJ. Bush destroyed the Republican party. Amen
Calabaza, read my pieces I linked on Monday. I am under no illusion about Dubya’s failures. That said, McCain was against him ON THE WRONG SIDE more often than not, precisely because of his presidential ambitions.
vIVA mA cAIN ! cO?O
Peter, lay off the Kool-Aid for a while…
If Glenn Beck would rather vote for Hilary Clinton (a leftist, ruthless liberal) rather than for John McCain (a quasi conservative) then shame on him. We all know -that if elected- he can’t run a second term. I would rather put up with four years of McCain than four more years of the Clintons. Period!
Furthermore, we know the Clintons are just dying to end the Cuban embargo and kiss up to the Cuban government. At least McCain would keep the status quo.