NANCY BENAC
AP News
February 25, 2008
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| CFR member David Gergen says Hillary is not out of the race by a long shot, no matter the Obama hype. Neocon Mary Matalin says losing is not in the Clinton DNA sequence. Is it still possible Hillary will be anointed? | |
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If Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is looking more and more like the Titanic, she may yet prove to be the unsinkable Molly Brown.
Ask Mike McCurry about the Clintons’ resilience. McCurry worked for Bob Kerrey, one of Bill Clinton’s chief rivals in the 1992 presidential campaign. He remembers the day details broke about Clinton’s efforts to avoid the Vietnam draft, just weeks after allegations had surfaced of an affair with Gennifer Flowers.
“He’s toast,” McCurry told co-workers on the Kerrey campaign. “He’s never going to survive this.” McCurry went on to become Clinton’s chief White House spokesman.
Hillary Clinton was a huge factor in her husband’s 1992 victory — and in any number of other recoveries during his agony-and-ecstasy political career. Now, she’s the one attempting to rebound from 11 straight primary and caucus losses to Barack Obama.
Obama is well aware of the Clintons’ supersized survival instincts. Aides say privately that’s one reason the Illinois senator has continued to go after her so directly rather than adopting a traditional front-runner’s strategy of ignoring his rival.
“I’d hold the obituary” for Clinton, says David Gergen, who served as an adviser to four presidents, including Bill Clinton. “She, like he, has enormous inner reserves upon which to draw. That’s why, no matter what else happens, you can’t discount the possibility that she’s going to bounce back.”
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