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Slate
by John Dickerson

05/11/06

Republicans don't vote in Democratic primaries, which is why it's something of a surprise that they've already chosen the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee: Hillary Clinton. Karl Rove has declared that 'anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves.' Key GOP activists and fund-raisers are signing up with John McCain and telling his advisers they think he's the only one who can beat her in a general election. Conservative John Podhoretz has skipped over the electoral process altogether and is ready to make Clinton president. In the newly released, Can She Be Stopped?, he argues that without an immediate programmatic effort to dismantle her, she will beat the Republican candidate in 2008. Of course, letting your political opponent pick your party's nominee is like letting your mother pick your fiance...

http://www.slate.com/id/2141639/


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