We're Doomed

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
- Shakespear

If you run to your windows right now, throw them open and look up into the sky, you will likely see four horsemen riding across the clouds.

Poll: Majority say they'd be likely to vote for Hillary Clinton

For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday.

The survey shows that the New York senator and former first lady has broadened her support nationwide over the past two years, though she still provokes powerful feelings from those who oppose her.

So 53% of the people in this poll said they would either be "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to vote for Hillary as president in 2008.

Ok, listen up. While I never thought in a million years I'd hear myself saying this... would I vote for Hillary if her GOP opponent were Jeb Bush, Bill Frist, or some other neocon hypnochrist? Pardon me while I shove a pencil into my eye, but ... yes. I suppose I would. But that's setting the bar awfully damned low.

Is this the best we can do? A person who had to carpetbag from her real home state to New York to get elected? A woman with a grand total of one term in the Senate, which was basically handed to her on a silver plate, as her only real governmental experience on her resume? (No, I'm sorry, being married to an elected official doesn't count. If my sink is broken, I'll call a plumber. Not somebody who's married to a plumber.)

Besides, the hatred factor for Hillary, dating back to the days of Bill's presidency, is still extremely high. Do we want to exchange one hugely polarizing president for another? And without carrying any crossover votes, can she really pull off the election and take any states in the South? Come on, now. Ok, so 53% in this poll said they would "probably" vote for her. If you looked at all the polls on November 1, 2004, George W. Bush should have lost in a freaking landslide.

What are you people thinking? So you want a moderate rather than a flaming liberal. Ok. We get it. But this simply can not be the best horse in the stable. First you picked Kerry. Now you're going to get on the wagon with Hillary? I swear sometimes Democrats actually go out of their way to TRY to lose elections.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention... there's also a rather nauseating stench of "dynasty" in the air at the moment, don't you think? Let's just say Hillary gets elected and then elected again in 20012. That will make 28 years - from 1988 to 2016 - more than a quarter of a century, with only two families controlling the fate of the country. Bush ... Clinton ... Bush ... Clinton. I swear, it's like the ping pong match from HELL.