Bill Bennet on CNN: Obama would be a tougher opponent for GOP than Hillary.

Not surprising.

Yeah, I believe him.

:sarcasm:

That is if Bill were a betting man.

They know they will beat him overwhelmingly and possibly take back control of Congress

People, just because HE says so, doesn't make it UNTRUE..

I support Ms. Clinton OVER Obama, but I do agree that it will be a harder fight to win, but I DO believe either CAN win...

You can bet on it!

Bobby Riggs comes to mind.

What a smart guy!

He know´s OBAMA will lose big time.

From Europe with love..

when the GOP is pushing one candidate within the opposition while openly bashing the other.

I trust him about as far as I can throw him.

nuf said...:puke:

Take as a given that I think Bill B. is a lying, hypocritical sack of crap.

He may be right.

Obama downside: The drug thing (both Bush & Clinton overcame this one), the Church thing (his church will become a nasty topic), his lack of experience (true, but not necessarily a deal killer), the racial thing (however, most whites perceive Obama to be like Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, or Condi Rice, etc. -- they do not group Obama with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakahn, etc.), his name/ national origin/and perceived "Muslimness" (this, the GOP will exploit at every conceivable opportunity).

Obama upside: He's a great speaker (he's right there in the Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, JFK ballpark), people like him (as opposed to Hillary, who just seems to incite a visceral hatred in some people), he's young and represents hope for the future (as opposed to say, John McCain, who is old and will center his campaign on fear, based on the past), he has been against the war with little equivocation all along (you can't lay the flip flopper label on him), his wife and kids look like they belong on the White House Post Card, or on the cover of Town & Country (advertisers couldn't hire models to look that damn good).

Bottom line, the Republicans will lay down a nasty campaign against Obama, and center it on his lack of experience, peppering it with nastiness about his background and his church.

HOWEVER

On the GOP side of the ledger:

McCain or Mitt = Evangelicals snooze. The Evangelicals are the backbone of the GOP. They are extremly well organized and they vote. These folks dislike McCain intensely and they can't (as a group) bring themselves to support a member of TCOJC&LDS.

Huckabee = Tax conservatives/supply siders/small government supporters snooze or look elsewhere (read: 3rd party run -- Dobbs, Bloomberg, Ron Paul). Yes, many of them will vote for Huck, but likely we'll still get the same 2-1 dem to republican ratio that's been coming out for the primaries.