Comments on: I’m So Hungry, I Could Eat a Wagon Wheel! http://donklephant.com/2005/07/19/im-so-hungry-i-could-eat-a-wagon-wheel/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Paul Brinkley http://donklephant.com/2005/07/19/im-so-hungry-i-could-eat-a-wagon-wheel/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Paul Brinkley Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:07:14 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/07/19/im-so-hungry-i-could-eat-a-wagon-wheel/#comment-335 1: There seems to be a great deal of hay made of Hillary being the heir apparent. Powell would have to overcome this. 2: It's Powell. If anyone could pose a credible alternative to Hillary, it'd be him. 3: He hasn't expressed much desire to run, despite a lot of popular support for it in 2000. 4: Nominating Powell would likely signal a sea change in the Dems' party line. Namely, a return to the middle. (I wouldn't count Hillary as such; moderacy is only a recent wardrobe change for her, IMO... and her collectivist fly is open.) I'm not sure the party's ready to make that change yet, as welcome as it would be. 1: There seems to be a great deal of hay made of Hillary being the heir apparent. Powell would have to overcome this.

2: It’s Powell. If anyone could pose a credible alternative to Hillary, it’d be him.

3: He hasn’t expressed much desire to run, despite a lot of popular support for it in 2000.

4: Nominating Powell would likely signal a sea change in the Dems’ party line. Namely, a return to the middle. (I wouldn’t count Hillary as such; moderacy is only a recent wardrobe change for her, IMO… and her collectivist fly is open.) I’m not sure the party’s ready to make that change yet, as welcome as it would be.

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