Brittle Hillary

Once again, Drudge scoops the Old Media.

No wonder David Gregory is so prone to hissy fits these days.

In a Drudge signature "World Exclusive," he offers quotes from President Bush and Karl Rove out of Bill Sammon's new book, Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media.

I like the title.

Drudge writes that the book is "based on exclusive, lengthy interviews with Bush, Cheney and their top advisers."

The President and Karl Rove gave their analyses of the current political climate and their predictions about the 2008 campaign to Sammon.

Bush interview highlights:
"[Hillary] is a smart person, and obviously has got a lot of experience," the president said in an exclusive interview for the book STRATEGERY, which is being published Monday. "It is helpful, to a certain extent, to have seen the presidency and presidential campaigns firsthand."

"I think Hillary Clinton will be a formidable candidate," Bush said.

"We should be the party in power because we’ve got ideas," he said. "As opposed to a party that’s against everything, we’re for things."

Bush pointed out that Vice President Dick Cheney’s plan to retire after finishing his term would leave the 2008 presidential election "wide open" to candidates from both parties. The president noted that for the first time in 52 years, the field of hopefuls would not include an incumbent president or vice president.

"Isn’t that interesting?" he marveled. "It may mean all bets are off."

Some of Karl Rove's remarks:
"She is the dominant player on their side of the slate," Rove said of Clinton. "Anybody who thinks that she’s not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves."

...Rove said he expects the Democrats to be hungry in 2008, since they will have been out of the White House for eight years. He predicted that Clinton will draw on her extensive campaign experience in her bid for the presidency.

"She has seen what the job requires," he said. "And she has been through six gubernatorial campaigns, two presidential campaigns, and then two senatorial campaigns in a big, industrial state. So she will be a formidable campaigner. She’ll be sure-footed."

Rove hinted that Clinton, who has been somewhat cautious since election to the Senate in 2000, may find that Americans sometimes want boldness from their president.

"For somebody who is philosophically very liberal, she’ll be a very cautious candidate at times," he said. "That cautiousness will serve her well a lot of times — not always, but a lot of times."

"For example, her cautiousness had her vote for the Iraq war," he said. "Her cautiousness has led her to do things to sort of try to position herself as a centrist."

Asked to describe Clinton’s weaknesses, Rove said, "her personal philosophy and her brittleness about her."

He added: "The question people will ask is, do we want to have her as president? And the answer to that will be determined in part by how she conducts herself. But it will also be settled in part by who the Republican nominee is and how he or she conducts themselves."

I think Hillary's supporters would most likely assess her personality and her potential for success in 2008 in a manner very similar to what Bush and Rove had to say.

Rove is right on the money when it comes to Hillary's very liberal philosophy and her "brittleness" as being problems for her to overcome.

The Dems just don't seem to learn. They keep putting up the same type of candidates -- unlikable far Left libs.

John Kerry struggled with his extreme liberal record, as well as his aloof attitude. In addition to his annoying air of superiority and vapidity, he flip-flopped so often that Americans couldn't trust him.

Al Gore had the same problems. He would pander and say what the libs wanted to hear, and then turn around and pretend to be someone else entirely. His personality was so stiff that even his flirtation with earth tones in his wardrobe didn't make him more appealing.

He couldn't find himself. Remember the three different Gores of the three televised presidential debates? It was a disaster. Such obvious insincerity is a real problem when it comes to winning over the electorate.

Now, if Hillary gets the nod, she will be the third Dem candidate in a row who's an out of the mainstream lib with a repulsive personality.

Dems need to get a grip on the pulse of America and honestly examine the areas in which they are out of step with the people.

Kerry and Gore may have been formidable candidates, but they were not embraced by Americans.

Do Democratic Party leaders really think that the public has any desire to embrace Hillary?

Yuck.