Vote Hillary: ‘We’ll Never Know Unless We Try’

If that's Hillary's new slogan, she's screwed. However, with the new schedule
focusing on New Hampshire, she'll likely get a pass. Armstrongs' post is instructive.

But what a difference a few months and a hot presidential campaign can make.
Even Bob Dole now refuses to “bet the farm” on Hillary winning the
Democratic nomination and will now only commit to betting his barn.

In New Hampshire, it is clear that Hillary is assessing Mr. Obama's rise and
her leveling out, with Edwards remaining steady after some tough challenges, and they've come up with a new strategy to explain it all. Camp Hillary is now going to assert that their candidate is the
underdog. In doing so, Hillary invokes a sacred comparison,
John F. Kennedy. If Romney can, why not Hillary?

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the campaign of the nation's lone Catholic president, John Kennedy, last night as she talked about her challenge in becoming the first female commander-in-chief. “He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then [1960] said, 'America will never elect a Catholic as president,' ” the White House hopeful told the New Hampshire Democrats' 100 Club fund-raiser here. “But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better,” she said. “They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake, and the rest, as they say, is history.” Noting women are “the majority” of voters and are in the workforce in “record numbers,” she added, “So when people tell me 'a woman can never be president,' I say, we'll never know unless we try.” Kennedy's name is most often invoked by supporters of Clinton's main Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, usually comparing their charisma. … .. HILL: I'M THE JFK OF 2008 VOWS TO BEAT ODDS

Having studied, written and done a political show on John F. Kennedy, this
is a subject to which I have expertise. What Kennedy faced through his Catholicism is one thing. What Hillary
faces as a woman is quite another. To compare the two is not only odd but a
far stretch, especially since she also seems to be shedding her experience in the process.
However, that's not the biggest issue about it for me. Hillary is choosing to
switch from Candidate Inevitable to mounting a new campaign claiming she's an underdog because she's a woman. J.F.K. may have been the first Catholic, but he was also
a well known war hero. Hillary stands up as a former first lady, a senator,
but also as a woman who has never served in the military who is asking to be commander in chief. There's also such a thing as recognizing an idea whose time has come. Hillary choosing a slogan that wipes away her bona fides is madness, especially looking to the general, but therein lies the reality in what Hillary now faces.

To start saying“We'll never know unless we try” about electing
a woman commander in chief hardly seems like an endorsement for primary voters to vote female.
Given the mess we're in around the globe and at home, including our Armed Forces, it seems wholly daft. Foreign policy isn't some gender crap shoot and neither
is military strategy. Hillary certainly knows this, so this female underdog
strategy may seem a logical next play given what's occurred over the last few
months with Obama's rise and Edwards' steady progress. But given that New Hampshire is likely out of play
for the former you've got to wonder what she's thinking. She's certainly not playing
to a general election voter anymore, which is the biggest news in all of this.
Candidate Inevitable is no longer so inevitable and that has got to be explained somehow.
Enter the underdog gender card. But as commander in chief you also need someone
who knows what she is doing and can play ball with the boys, so to speak.

What
the hell, let's give it a try is the worst rationale I've ever heard for
electing a woman president and commander in chief.

What is camp Hillary thinking? Are they softening the inevitable mantle, because Obama has caught up and so has reality, while also making people
more willing to come home to Hillary in the primaries; something that was once assured but is no longer? We've come a long way from when she launched.

The fact remains that America loves to champion the underdog. But two things
come to mind. Number one: I don't know how in the world Hillary Clinton can
claim that title fits her. Number two: Why in the world would anyone vote for
a woman as commander in chief who's slogan is “We'll never know unless
we try”?

I guarantee you that Give 'em Hell Harry Truman never said that when unloading
the bombs on Japan.

Speaking as a woman, I liked Hillary better when she was inevitable.