The future Governor of New York?

The future Governor of New York?

We’ve heard consistently from people we know from the Hillary for President campaign that they do not believe HRC will remain Secretary of State for Dr. Utopia’s full term.  People we know have expected Clinton to step down at State sometime in 2010.  

We’ve speculated here that Clinton should run for Governor of New York in 2010, since there is no way David Paterson can win election.  We also don’t believe Andrew Cuomo is an impediment to Clinton running…and we don’t believe Rudy Giuliani will beat her. 

When we were last in New York, in December 2008, for the “Conversation with Hillary Clinton” event hosted by America Ferrara, there were two things people talked about:  how to stop HRH Caroline Kennedy’s power grab for Clinton’s Senate seat AND why Clinton wasn’t running for Governor of New York, since no one liked Paterson. 

Our good friend Wess, who talks regularly with Clinton delegates and friends, insists Clinton will run for the Democrats’ nomination in 2012. Wess believes she will challenge Dr. Utopia, since his poll numbers will be abysmal by then.  We believe — but admit it’s wishful thinking — that Dr. Utopia will announce he has Parkinson’s disease, or some other health condition, in 2011 and decline to run for a second term IF, and it’s an operative IF, he sees there’s no chance of him winning a second term.  We believe Dr. Utopia would rather ride into the sunset as LBJ, to make millions, if not a billion, from his followers in his post-presidency, than be defeated in 2010 by Sarah Palin.

Wess, and other friends from the primary campaign, believe it’s going to be a Clinton v. Palin matchup in 2012.   There are some who believe there was a deal made in 2008, whereby Dr. Utopia agreed with the Clintons to one term…and that HRC’s chance would come in 2012.  After Dr. Utopia secured the nomination in June of 2008, there was a Clinton event in Chicago in mid-summer where someone very close to HRC got up and gave a speech thanking all of her Chicago volunteers and fundraisers…and he said, memorably, that Hillary Clinton would not be president in 2009…but that she would be president.  Someday.  He didn’t say if that was 2013 or if it was 2015.  But he said she would be president. 

Now, with any of this, you have to understand clearly that all of us adore Hillary Clinton…and we would do anything for her.  We want to see her run for office again…we want to see her as Governor of New York…we want to see her as the first female Democratic presidential nominee…we want to see her as the first female President of the United States, where she will clean up Dr. Utopia’s considerable mess.  

We would do absolutely anything for this woman…including putting ourselves through another grueling 24/7, months-long, general election campaign…be it in New York, or nationally.  

So…when we read bits like this in the Weekly Standard, about rumors of Clinton leaving State to run for New York Governor, we cheer and get excited by have to recuse ourselves from serious discussion of the possibility, because we want it to happen too badly to comment clearly.  People around us want this to happen too badly for us to see clearly.  If it was announced she was doing this, we’d literally drop everything, leave Chicago, and head to New York to help her.

 But, it is interesting rumors like this keep popping up. And that we keep hearing things like this in Clinton circles in Chicago. And that people who know HRC best continue to maintain that she WILL indeed be president. 

Someday.