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GOP Predicts Clinton-Obama '08 Ticket

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August 07, 2007 12:40 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican presidential candidate former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., agree that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will become the Democratic nominee and will pick Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to be her running-mate.

"I think it's going to be a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket," said Giuliani in an interview with the Daily Telegraph Monday in Stanhope, Iowa.

At a separate event on Monday, Gingrich, who is mulling an '08 bid of his own, predicted the Democratic front-runners will win the election.

"The odds are fairly significant that the left will win next year," Gingrich said to a group of business leaders. "My personal bet is that it'll be a Clinton-Obama ticket. I think they have a very high likelihood of winning."

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, an ABC News consultant, said, "While the Republicans find it interesting to hook up the top two candidates, first they have to secure the nomination then they have to look around to see how they are going get to 270. It is much too early to be talking about this.”  Brazile added, "I'm not surprised they are spending their daylight hours focusing on the strength of both Clinton and Obama." 

The Clinton campaign had no comment when asked about the GOP's predictions.

However there are signs that Clinton and Obama's relationship may be deteriorating. The leading Democratic '08 rivals work together in the Senate and see each other on the campaign trail but have not spoken to each other meaningfully in months, according to a recent New York Times article.

They have been publicly battling in recent weeks, with Obama attacking Clinton's vote on the war in Iraq, and Clinton suggesting Obama's willingness to talk to leaders of rogue nations as president denotes a lack of foreign policy experience.

Other Republican presidential candidates have targeted Clinton on the stump, suggesting the GOP may be rallying their Republican base against a Clinton nomination.

Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., said to a group of senior citizens a few weeks ago in New Hampshire, "I don't think Hillary Clinton could get elected president of France with her platform."

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., said at a recent Republican debate, "No one on this stage probably knows Hillary Clinton better than I do and I will tell you that it's probably not a good idea to put either of them back in the White House."

August 7, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (9)

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No way. Obama is too tied to the left wing, and Hillary has to move to the center in the general election campaign. Besides, Hillary knows the country is not going to vote for a ticket if the VP candiate has the heavy Arabic/Islamic personal background that Obama does.

Posted by: Jhopolong | Aug 7, 2007 5:26:58 PM

The republican party(Newt Gingrich) is on a fishing expedition. Thats why he is putting out the Clinton-Obama ticket prediction. He is trying to find out who it will be. Smart move but very risky with the wrong interpretation of the answer. Try reading the hairs on Guiliani's head Newt.

Posted by: cliff jones | Aug 7, 2007 5:29:51 PM

slogan to derail Clinton,

"Been there, Done that, No need to relive the past."

Posted by: Jim Houston | Aug 7, 2007 8:04:53 PM

Amend the above to:

"Been there, Done that, No Need to Revive or Relive that"

Posted by: Jim Houston | Aug 7, 2007 9:46:28 PM

jhopolong: SERIOUSLY MAN!!

Do you believe this?? These people are paper cut outs.. How are they different? Wake up man, see thru the illusion.

Take the pill man!! You're still in the Matrix!!

Ha ha

Posted by: Jeffry Towns | Aug 7, 2007 10:30:25 PM

I believe Obama Will beet Cliton and she will suggest or put her name out thier to Obama As a running mate. People are ready for a change with a hint of conservatism. Hillary has no hint conservatism. Barrack Obama is the man with a plan.

Posted by: GerardMiller | Aug 10, 2007 7:16:25 AM

It's no wonder the GOP is talking about a Clinton/Obama ticket. They're the only viable candidates the Republicans have, uh....to talk about, that is. I wonder if anyone will show up at the Iowa straw pole, except those bused in by the candidates? Perhaps Gingrich may get a couple of write-in's, he sure wouldn't get any from my home state of Georgia. How about Tom Delay? No, he's still under indictment. Can you be under indictment and still run for President? I guess I need to ask a Republican that question, they seem to be experts in that department lately.

Posted by: GC | Aug 11, 2007 4:33:35 PM

A Clinton-Obama ticket can win and wing big despite what the skeptics have to say. So what if a white woman and black man runs together. This country is so juvenile in terms of its philosophy. As a long as the two candidates are capable of doing the job, thats all that matters. In 2000/2004 the Dem's had a southerner at the top or second on the ticket and neither were to pull southerns states into its election column....so what does that say about selection process? The republicans nominates gun-toting, closet bigots, the country is all of sudden silent.

Posted by: Thomas | Aug 22, 2007 1:20:47 PM

Clinton killed too many to stay in power and his wife was involved in some of that. We don't need the Cocain heirest and a terrorist in the White House. Remember Ron Brown and at least 40 more. Most of them may have been Democrates, but they tended to be the more honest ones. That party can not afford to loose the few honest people they have left.

Posted by: Bill | Aug 30, 2007 3:56:11 AM

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