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Jeb Bush
The Republicans are desperate in their search for a high-profile candidate to run in the 2012 presidential election. Mitt Romney has been the only Republican name of any consequence to surface in the past 12 months.
Now the Washington pundits are going back to their notes of two years ago. They see Jeb Bush as a possible GOP front-runner. They also envision Hillary Clinton as a strong finisher on the Democrat side.
Hillary Clinton
Clearly, the Good Ship Obama is foundering and will go down in 2012. Before that happens, however, Mrs. Clinton will have resigned and announced her candidacy for President. This isn't fresh news. It has been kicked around for the past 18 months or so.
So has the talk of Jeb Bush stepping up to the plate to re-capture the Bush family dynasty in the White House. Governor of Florida from 1999 through 2007 and a former real estate developer in Miami, Jeb Bush has the name, the following and the cash to make a serious run for the Presidency.
Mitt-Romney
Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS television broadcaster and current blogger and political consultant, also sees Mrs. Clinton running against Obama.
"If things don't improve, Independents, who switch back and forth from one party to another all the time, will have no trouble abandoning President Obama next time around," Goldberg writes.
"Blacks won't, of course, and that poses a real problem to any challenger. White liberals would never forsake America's first black president, either - at least, not to vote for some other Democrat who looks like Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis or Al Gore or John Kerry.
"But Hillary gives them the opportunity to assuage their white liberal guilt, and, bonus - make history all over again. They can drop the black guy and vote for someone they hope will be the first woman president of the United States--- and still hang on to their precious liberal credentials."
Do you see a Jeb Bush--Hillary Clinton race in 2012?
What do you think?
