The Silver Foxes

On the Sunday morning talk shows today, two men, each with great shocks of silver hair, made the rounds.

One was the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. He spoke about his decision not to enter the race for the Republican nomination for president. And then he deconstructed the Republicans' liabilities and assets heading into 2008, articulated a clear strategy for the party, and discussed policy with the brilliance of a policy wonk.

The other was former president Bill Clinton, who spoke of his role as his wife's lead cheerleader. And then he deconstructed the Republicans' liabilities and assets, articulated a clear strategy for his party, and discussed policy with the brilliance of a policy wonk.

Forget about these interminably excruciating Democratic and Republican debates, with their dizzying array of multiple no-chance candidates and their 60 second empty soundbytes.

Give us Newt and Bill.  Mano a mano. Give us these two political titans, these two towering intellects, these two genius strategists. Put the two of them on a stage together and let them duke it out over the nation's most important issues.  Give us these two real policy thinkers and doers. Give us a real debate.

Bring on the silver foxes.

Comments

[Jack Flynn]

Yes! yes! yes! Get them to debate on your show, Monica. Two Titans debating, with the Titaness, Themis, moderating. It would be great.

[charlie]

Monica,

Didn't see the shows, so can't comment on them.

With the dearth of substance and oratorical skills among the crop of midgets, (candidates), it should be refreshing and entertaining to see these two square off against each other.

[Ree]

Monica,

Speaking of Clintons have a look at this new video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0UNPBu36Q

[EmyuMan]

Monica,

If you translate mano a mano from Spanish to English you don't get man to man as so many people seem to think. You get hand by hand. Is that what you meant?!

[Jack Flynn]

Sooooo, Monica admits that Bill Clinton possesses a "towering" intellect. Of course he does, as does his wife, Hillary Clinton, our next President.
What is interesting here is that the Repubs, under the slimy tutorship of "Grigon Yefimovich" Morris, (alias), Dick Morris), originally wanted Hillary to be the Democratic candidate because they were certain they had a sure loser to run against in '08.
They had an arsenal of mud ready to sling, and with an unlimited supply of anti Hillary jokes, expected to turn her into an unelectable caricature—a “pin the tail on the donkey" scenario in which nobody would take her seriously.
It has all backfired and gone wrong for the "Know Nothing" party and they are now faced with a Goliath of a woman who has the brain, the organization and the "gelt" to leave them at the starting gate.
Their only hope now would be to recognize that their field of candidates is full of losers and to draft Newt Gingrich at the convention. He is their only chance, but lately the Repubs have been shooting themselves in the feet so much it is unlikely that they will recover quickly enough from their internal and external disarray to take the only chance they have in '08.

Go Hillary!

[charlie]

Mr. Flynn,

It is wiser not to set one's hopes too high, or to take anything for granted.
The higher you climb; the harder the fall.

Remember, Hillary doesn't have the charisma of her husband and, generally, she's not a very likeable person. Hardcore liberals and Democrats will support her, even if she were Jezebel. But she has yet to impress and convince those outside that ring.

The fiasco in Iraq has been one of the Democrats trump cards. Now that things are beginning to look up, they may lose that edge.
Another large-scale terrorist attack could be another factor.
Would America want Hillary, or a guy like Rudy to be in control them.

Fate and circumstances also play a role in these affairs so, I suppose, we'll just have to wait and see.