What if Hillary decides to run as an independant?

[cags]

[helderheid]

1. President McBush

[Occam Bandage]

2. What if Hillary decides to walk to the Moon?

[bunkerbuster1]

3. I'll eat my hat.

She's not going to run as an independant.

[anonymous171]

4. Obama loses, Hillary loses (more than just the election) and McCain wins.

[purji]

5. maybe she should ask Obama to be the Vp

you know, In case anything happens.

[Symarip]

6. She won't.

She won't win because Indie's never do (sadly) and then she'll lose her Senate seat and all political pull she's ever earned.

Won't happen.

[onenote]

7. not going to happen

[demokatgurrl]

8. She won't she's a lifelong partisan Democrat. n/t

[Zodiak]

26. Except when she was a Republican Goldwater girl. n/t

[JVS]

9. She'll have no money to do that.

[hfojvt]

19. she probably has $15,000,000 from her big money donors

that she can only use for the GE.

[griffi94]

28. right

because god knows the same people who have funded the gop wouldn't help fund that.

[Waya]

10. She can take Lieberman as her VP.....

What if Hillary becomes invisible politically????????????

[hfojvt]

11. I thought a while back she might be angling for a Clinton/Bloomberg ticket

but I read here that it's already too late to get on the ballot in many states. I hope that's true.

[tridim]

12. She's a Democrat last I checked

Why would she run as an Independent?

[MrCoffee]

13. She'd last a week, maybe two at the outside if she loaned herself more money.

No one would support her with donations.

[Fox Mulder]

14. It'll fuck up our chances of winning and we'll be seeing President McCain.

:grr:

[tammywammy]

15. Hello President McCain

She doesn't have the fundraising ability to run 3rd party and I doubt Bill would want her to spend more of their savings on one either

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. And cue the picture

Seriously, folks.....

[FatDave]

17. Her career comes to a screeching halt.

Which is not to say that it won't happen.

[Blue-Jay]

18. The result:

She's not going to run as an independent, however. What ever issues people have with her, she is and will remain a Democrat.

[gorfle]

20. I believe

Given how close the race was between Clinton and Obama, I believe if Clinton ran as an independent it would siphon off enough votes from the Democratic Candidate to ensure that neither Clinton nor Obama won against McCain.

I hope she does not do this.

[Xenocrates]

21. Stranger things have happened

I had this worry that Hillary would steal the nomination and Obama would run independent... But the reverse of this doesn't sound too bad... Hillary as an independent would be a disaster.. for her. Obama would win handily anyway.

[NanceGreggs]

22. If she wanted to ...

... which is doubtful in the extreme, my understanding is that it's too late to get her name on the ballot in many states.

[The Stranger]

23. Run for what?

[Fresh_Start]

24. what if McCain selects her as VP?

thats the scenario I'm worried about. The independent run isn't a consolidation of power

[onenote]

29. if you are worried about that, you should also be worried about being crapped on by a flying pig

[Xenocrates]

31. Oh My.. That's Almost Unthinkable

[AtomicKitten]

25. That's her prerogative. In the meantime, she needs to concede & get the hell out of Barack's way.

[MrsBrady]

27. she won't n't

[Saturday]

30. She won't run as an Independent. *sigh* nt

[americanstranger]

32. This has been raised a number of times, and it CANNOT HAPPEN.

She would not be able to get on the ballot in many states.

It would be stupid to campaign for president when you couldn't even compete in all 50 states.

Besides, her time as a Democrat would be done, her connections would be flushed down the toilet, years of political capital would be burned and never reclaimed.

Clinton shows monumentally bad judgment, but I doubt if even she would try something so blockheaded.

- as

[Auntie Bush]

33. It would be mandatory for all her supporters to leave DU

at least they would no longer be able to post if they didn't want to get hit in the face with a big granite cookie.

[CanonRay]

34. No money, she's $20,000,000 in debt now!

She's nuts, not suicidal.

[MessiahRp]

35. She has millions in General Election Only money already...

And, I'm sort of curious to see how the primary rules would apply if she conceded. I wonder if her Democratic GE fund would be used for primary debt and how much that would leave her and if she runs under a different party banner if she financially starts over or how that works.

Rp

[Growler]

36. she CAN'T

It's far too late to register as an Independant candidate. She cannot get her name on the ballot. It simply can't happen, period.

[Ikonoklast]

37. What if pie tasted like shit?

Would you still like eating pie?

I love these types of threads, so.....pointless.

[ramapo]

38. A lady on C-SPAN last night wondered...

She was on a bit after Barack's speech. She was asking if Hillary's name would still be on the GE ballot because she wanted to still vote for the Hill, not Obama. Seemed like a bizarre question from a CSPAN devotee. Doesn't that somewhat imply that you're a political junkie and have at least a basic understanding of the process?

[Fresh_Start]

39. maybe she was confused because with all the candidates this year

many primary voters were faced with the names of people who had already withdrawn