Hillary, if you're reading, please don't run! I write this completely independent of their other merits and demerits, but it's been slightly corrosive for American democracy to have the son of a recently former President be elected President. It would be just as corrosive to have the wife of the previous one run and be elected. Democracy, if it means anything, should be an open, competitive system, not something resembling a feuding aristocratic house.
here's a reason for not supporting her candidacy that I don't hear often enough: political dynasticism. I don't just think that's a bad thing because it's a political family whose politics I find egregious. I think it's just a bad thing for the republic, period. Nor is it only the Bushes or only the presidency .... Again, not unprecedented by any means, but a tendency that is growing and one I don't think is healthy in the aggregate.
Great minds think alike ... fools never differ.
Posted by robe0419 at January 24, 2006 4:12 PM