revskippy: This blind faith in the "inevitable" election of Hillary is possibly the most amusing thing I see in this presidential race.

The funniest thing is that this idiocy is being catapulted almost exclusively by Right Wing blogs and pundits. The only chance the Republicans have of winning the presidency is if Hillary is nominated. So they're doing this sort of preemptive rallying of the base. It's just desperation at this point. It's wishful thinking.

The fact that Hillary has absolutely no chance whatsoever to win the nomination, let alone the presidency, seems to be something they can't even bring themselves to consider. But she's massively unpopular among the Democratic base; there literally isn't one Democrat I know that would even think about voting for her in the primaries.

But, as it stands, she's still (somewhat understandably) the candidate who engenders the most hate from the opposition, and they're banking on her winning the nomination. But you can tell, if you push back the bullsh*t, that not even the Right believes she has a chance. That's what's so funny about watching the halfhearted attempts by them to forecast End Times for America due to this "inevitable" Hillary presidency. It's so unbelievably farking transparent it almost makes me feel sorry for them.

Errata: Saying she's "massively" unpopular among the base is an overstatement on my part. I know she's doing fairly well in the polls, but I don't put much into that. I'm just not seeing much support for her anywhere.

Nabb1: I wouldn't be so sure. Edwards has too much baggage and is too far into this class warfare nonsense to win

If you would've asked me a few months ago, I would've agreed with you. Now I'm starting to think he might be electable. Either way, I don't think it's going to be Clinton or Edwards who ends up getting the nomination.

Mordant: Yeah, I could do that at this point while standing on one foot.

You'll have to. She's going to take one of your legs for the "common good". A guy on the radio told me so.

Skleenar: See, the problem is that the Dems you know are people who are probably politically aware and self-identify as such.

Actually, they run the gamut. Some of them are complete idiots :)

But general polls show Hillary doing very strong against her competition. The big question is who will show up to the primaries? I would guess it would somewhat obviously slant towards the 'committed' democrats--but what if polls show her leading then and people make the same sort of 'electability' calculation that made Kerry the nominee last time?

I just don't think Kerry was nearly the divisive figure in his own party that Hillary is right now. I think that will be the difference in this race. Of course, I'm open to the possibility that I could be completely wrong.

Skleenar: I have no clue what is going to happen in the primaries. I keep thinking HC is going to lose a lot of her support, but polls just keep showing her plugging along.

At the risk of being laughed of teh intarwebs, I think Gore will announce he's running, win the nomination, pick Obama for VP, and win the presidency.

Call it a hunch.

Further to my point, consider the legion of photoshoppers who are in the trenches as we speak fighting the good fight against Hillary. What chance could she possibly stand with the likes of them breathing down her neck?

I'll bet veedeevadeevoodee has plenty of ammo and is holed up in a subterranean bunker under a house somewhere just waiting to unleash his full arsenal.