Hillary's latest comments on Iraq, 9/11, and her "regrets [about] how the President misused the authority" granted by the now infamous Iraq invasion vote have been written about concisely on every big Democratic blog, so I won't repeat them here. But they perfectly demonstrate why I don't think I could vote for Hillary. At least not easily.

That's probably an overstatement. At this point, in a general I'd vote for Hillary over McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, and pretty much every one of the other GOP possibles. On the other hand, in a primary I'd vote for Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Clark... even Biden and Kucinich over Hillary.

But in the most hypothetical of hypotheticals, how would I vote in a general election that pits Hillary against Giuliani? That would be a tough one. While I'm sure there's distance between Rudy and Hillary on a lot of issues, my gut tells me that Giuliani would more effectively move America toward the middle than Hillary ever could. She's too polarizing a figure and, dispite her concerted effort to shed her image as the epitome of the liberal harpy, I simply don't see it happening. I'm certain I'm misattributing this, but I think it was Pat Buchanan on "The McLaughlin Group" who, when asked if anything could save 2008 for the GOP, said "Hillary." I think that's dead on. She'll bring the GOP together way faster than Iraq took it apart. Can you imagine that ghoul Lindsey Graham proudly announcing his honorable bipartisan support of anything carrying the Hillary brand? I sure can't. Her image is too well engrained in the collective Republican psyche. Meanwhile, Giuliani is as liberal a Republican as you can get, and it would be tough for folks like Graham to give him too much grief.

But like a lot of folks, I don't really know much about what Giuliani stands for, and I doubt I'll get much of a chance.

Analogcabin @ 10:26 AM
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