Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .

by John Podhoretz

Book Overview

Our Worst Nightmare-and How to Avoid It It's the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States. Could it really happen? Frighteningly, yes. In fact, as bestselling author and leading conservative commentator John Podhoretz reveals, this is not just a scary "what if"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307337308
• ISBN13: 9780307337306
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Crown Forum
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Great, but frightening information about our former first lady

I have gotten a lot of good information from this book. It is frightening to see what Hilary has set out to do. She is determined to be president no matter the costs. I believe if she reaches the White House(and please God, no) she will be a little Caesar. I read the newspaper articles at the time she and her husband left the white house and how they trashed it and took items that were not supposed to leave the White House. She has no regard for the good of the country, only what she can get. I believe she is capable of getting to her goal no matter what she has to do or who she has to step on.

"Misunderestimating" Hillary Clinton

If "Bush Country" demonstrated that George W. Bush came to power as a result of being "misunderestimated" by his opposition, "Can She Be Stopped?" argues that Hillary Clinton will use the tactic in 2008. Whether one likes her or not, it must be admitted that Hillary is the Queen of Coyness -- with Bill playing right along in the game. How many interviews with Bill have we seen in the past few weeks, in which he pretends not to know whether Hillary is running in 2008? Make no mistake, Hillary is running and she will be a force to be reckoned with, as John Podhoretz reminds us time and again. Moreover, Podhoretz insists that in addition to being coy, Hillary will try to slide into office as a "stealth" candidate, overcoming her high "negatives" with the hope that the MSM won't press her to state her positions on major issues. Thus, Podhoretz counts down 10 strategies that Republicans can use to pin her down on major positions in the coming months before the mid-term elections, upon which the real 2008 campaign will begin. While many will discount Podhoretz's warnings as part of a Republican scare campaign against Hillary and the chaos she will supposedly wrought once in office, it remains to be seen whether his predictions will be right. But, then, it will be too late. In this book, Podhoretz, who, it seems to me, is probably one of best-educated writers on current events, keeps a light-hearted tone throughout the book, just as he did in "Bush Country." This book never bogs down. Not everyone will like his conclusion, however, that Rudy is poised to be the Dragon-Slayer. But, that too, may be an eventuality we will need to prepare for.

Hillary Clinton is Unlikely to Become our Next President---but I Could be Wrong

It is highly unlikely that Hillary Clinton will be a viable presidential candidate in 2008. If nothing else, she must have the overwhelming support of the MSM. The election will not take place for roughly another 2 and 1/2 years, a virtual eternity. The major media outlets are rapidly losing market share and influence. How useful will they be to her on the day of the election? Senator Clinton is also despised by the Daily Kos crowd which will not allow her to pragmatically gravitate to more moderate positions concerning Iraq and economic matters. Aren't the Daily Kos and his buddies radical leftists? Whatever, they are now the "mainstream" of the Democratic Party. These left-wingers possess the ultimate veto power over that party's next presidential nominee. And there is no way possible for one to reconcile the economic views of the Daily Kos and Bill Clinton's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. In other words, The Democratic Party is dead and somebody has forgotten to bury the carcass. The GOP would really have to blow it to lose the next presidential contest. I place the odds to be minimally 80% in its favor. The Democrats could once count on earning support from cultural war liberals like Roger L. Simon, Glenn Reynolds, Megan McArdle, and Michael Totten. This is no longer the case. The war on terror is considered to be a much higher priority---and the dishonest pacifism of the Democrats is deemed unacceptable. Is John Podhoretz correct to advance the cause of Rudy Giuliani? Whatever, I will leave that debate for others to argue. There is one thing I do know for sure: Secretary of State Condi Rice should be on the ticket as the VP candidate. She will attract a bare minimum of 25% of the Afro-American vote. Can anyone provide me with a realistic scenario where the Democrats can win nationally if this occurs? Anything over the single digits in the Republican column terrifies the Democratic Party establishment. I agree with the author that "It must be our goal to compel her to take a leadership role in her party at the earliest possible moment." Mrs. Clinton must not be allowed to mealy-mouth her positions. Indeed, "a transparent Hillary is probably an unelectable Hillary." This is an important book. One should never take anything for granted. The stakes are simply too high. A President Hillary Clinton would probably prove disastrous. And please don't let anyone delude you into believing that she is another Golda Meir or Margaret Thatcher. On the contrary, we would almost certainly begin losing our struggle against the Islamic nihilists. No, we need to take John Podhoretz's advice seriously. Please note that I even concede the junior senator from New York may have a 20% chance of being victorious. Long shots do occasionally win. That alone should scare you into action. David Thomson Flares into Darkness

Good overall but just a couple of corrections

For any possible future editions. Rudy Giulani, Podhoretz's choice for the one to stop Hillary Clinton in 2008, is rather weakly qualified. RG was only mayor of a city, yeah a large one like the author points out, but nonetheless being a mayor has fairly little in common with being a US president. Also, RG is the son of a Sing Sing convict (presidential candidate opponents of RG's would certainly hold that against him a lot). Also, that NYC police listed some crimes as non-crimes to get NYC's crime rate down. On other matters the author mentions how Bin laden called the USA a paper tiger due to us all too easily pulling out of Beirut and Somalia in the 80's and late 90's. This is in support of the US going to full occupation-war against Iraq. Well done but mentioning Saddam's Anfal Campaign (his attempt at Kurdish genocide) would also have shown the validity of the Iraqi occupation. Plus, talking of Khadafi giving his nuke bomb project when he saw Saddam get taken down and feared he (Khadafi) would possibly next taken down would add support to the Iraqi occupation.

WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT

"CAN SHE BE STOPPED" IS A VERY FASINATING BOOK THAT TAKES A VERY DETAILED LOOK AT THE 2008 PRESIDENAIL RACE AND ESPICALLY SEN CLINTONS RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.I WAS VERY FASINATED BY THIS PUBLICATION CAUSE I SORT OF WANTED A FOLLOW UP AFTER READING DICK MORRIS`S BOOK "CONDI VS HILLARY" THIS NEW AND EXCITING PAGE TURNER HAS ALOT OF NEW RESEARCH ABOUT HILLARYS CAMPAIGN AND OFFERS THE REPUBLICANS SOME FRESH ADVICE WITH SOME GREAT PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS THAT WILL GIVE SOME DOCUMENTATION AND SHOW THAT HILLARY CAN BE BEATEN. "CAN SHE BE STOPPED" BY JOHN PODHORETZ. WOULD MAKE A VERY WONDERFUL GIFT FOR A FRIEND, FAMILY MEMBER, OR SOLDIER SERVERING OVER SEAS.