This is insane, yes.

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I mean, really, really insane. We’re talking transcendently insane:

Bush/Clinton in 2004 (Clinton being, of course, Hillary).

Isn’t that lunatic? I got the idea from a poster from this dKos thread about that popularity poll. dKos is especially amusing today, by the way: the post after that one is sort of about how Dean doesn’t need to win in the South to win the election and sort of about how Kos is planning away at an upcoming campaign* against The New Republic. 2004 is going to be fragging hysterical…

But I digress. Let’s see that again: Bush/Clinton 2004. I don’t know about you, but the sheer malignant beauty of the train wreck that such a simple slogan represents is almost overwhelming. I mean, the craniums of hundreds of pundits on both sides of the spectrum would explode from the strain of trying to hold in the white-hot outrage… OK, in most cases that’s arguably a plus, true, but somebody would still have to clean it all up afterwards.

This is the problem that I have with the notion: it’s quite possibly one of the fabled So Bad It Went Out The Other Side And Makes An Insane Sort of Sense ideas (more often spoken of than seen). Bush gets a paper-perfect balance to the ticket; Clinton gets an enviable position by which to run for President in ’08 (as a clear centrist, no less); lots of pundits’ head explode. I’d pay a dollar to watch this all happen.

(pause)

Oh, did I mention that I’m coming down with a cold?

Moe

*If it were pre-9/11, I’d be using either ‘jihad’ or ‘crusade’ in the place of ‘campaign’.

9 thoughts on “This is insane, yes.”

  1. I’ll put in a dollar, too.
    And let’s have some reality-TV cameras recording their working relationship 24 hours a day.
    George Bush on one side of a table, Hillary Clinton on the other. Oooooh, chemistry!

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  4. Look, George Clinton is great, but I’m not sure I want him running for President. Even if he paints the White House black.

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  5. And let’s have some reality-TV cameras recording their working relationship 24 hours a day.
    And make Paris Hilton their press secretary (and Bill’s personal assistant, presumably) . . . .

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  7. ….
    Er…
    ….
    {sound of head exploding}
    Don’t DO that.
    My head spins just trying to think about the demographics that would vote for–and against–that ticket. It would grant Bush the dubious ignominy of having outdone 2000 for the title of Most Outrageous Election Year.

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  8. By the way, I sincerely hope it isn’t the flu that you’re getting. This year’s flu is literally the Death Flu–it put me, my fiancee, and our kid all on our backs and nearly unable to function for almost two weeks.

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