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December 09, 2006
Paul Talbot Responds to "It's Time"
Paul Talbot writes:
"This begs the question "Why hasn't it always been time?"
Or at least time in our post-nineteenth amendment America?
Imagine the fortunes of the Republican party had the political trajectory of Margaret Chase Smith, a talented and moderate Republican Senator, followed a different course in the sixties.
Perhaps we really wouldn't have had Dick Nixon to kick around any more.
And Clare Boothe Luce? Most American men would have gladly slept with her... and perhaps a sizable number would have seen fit to vote for her.
These two women, and scores more, remind us that it may not be prudent to annoint Hillary Clinton as a political trailblazer, but rather simply to acknowledge her present, and fortunate, position on a political trail so arduously blazed by others.
Hillary and her handlers probably understand the behavior of the electorate may be influenced more by the quality of the candidate than the temper of the times.
I wish I could steal Lloyd Bentsen's line and tell Senator Clinton 'I knew Margaret Chase Smith, and you're no Senator Smith.'"
Posted by Charles Warner at December 9, 2006 11:23 PM
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