More on ‘08
I certainly don’t mean to start talking about the 2008 presidential campaign all the time — after all, this is a local blog and 08 is 2 years away — but I just thought I’d follow up on our earlier post about the nightmare scenario of Hillary running against Giuliani.
Neither Charlie Cook or Chris Cillizza (two prominent political prognosticators) is willing to write Rudy off just yet. Both say the two leading contenders are Romney and McCain but see Giuliani as a wild card. Both articles are pretty interesting: Cook pegs McCain’s chances of getting the GOP nomination at 60%, which is a bold prediction, and Cillizza mentions a possible Democratic presidential candidate I’ve never heard of — Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee.
For the record, it seems to me that unless someone new jumps into the Democratic mix, we’re looking at Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. And if no one new jumps into the Republican field either, we’re looking at president Hillary Clinton (the Clintons have pieces of people like John McCain stuck between their teeth — Newt Gingrich, for example — and I just don’t think a northeastern like Romney or Rudy would stand much of a chance against Hillary).
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