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dynasty

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/arch…

I agree with James Fallows: the dynastic secession problem is going to be a huge issue for Hillary in the general election. So will the corruption that plagued the last years of the Clinton administration; I think Democrats have been lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that this stuff isn’t coming out in the primary. But this, of course, is because the other Democratic contenders are hoping to run in part on the Clinton (economic) legacy; the Republicans will have no such scruples. She is the candidate with the best chance of losing the general election, and I’m not sure why she’s doing so well.

I’ve been saying it all along, but now a columnist for The Atlantic is saying it – it must be true!

Aside from the narrow sniping at Hillary, I agree: with presidential terms of Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, we’re not in robust shape, but we’re not great. To go six or seven terms between just two families…that would be a mistake comparable in order of magnitude to FDR’s horrible four-term example.

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4 Responses to “dynasty”

  1. brian Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    If it’s a monarchy we want, we could do worse than the dual kingdoms of Bush and Clinton trading off every eight years. We might not like one or both of the Houses for personal reasons but such a system has stability and predictability; markets like that.

    Eight years of La Clinton, followed by eights years of the next Bush .. Chelsea will be 44 and a junior senator in her own right.

    One problem is that the House of Clinton is short on heirs to take up the mantle if anything should happen to young Ms. Clinton. The dynasty is in perilous peril!

  2. Joshua W. Burton Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Travis, were you born yet at the last presidential election when we had neither a Bush nor a Dole on the GOP ticket?

  3. dff Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    When would that have been? 72?

  4. Joshua W. Burton Says:
    January 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am

    Ambassador Mondale, on Senator Dole’s run for president in 1996:

    “He ought to be beatable. Even I beat him.”

    (Later, in 2004, Mondale became the only major-party politician in US history to have lost a statewide election in all fifty states.)