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Karl Rove: 'Brittleness' Is Hillary Clinton's Weakness
In a new book on the Bush administration, top White House political strategist Karl Rove says that Hillary Clinton will be a "formidable campaigner" when she runs for president in 2008, but she will have to change her stiff and inflexible image. Asked to describe Mrs. Clinton's weak points, Rove told Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon: "her personal philosophy and her brittleness about her." Rove's comments appear in Sammon's new book on the Bush administration, "Strategery," excerpts of which turned up on the Drudge Report Sunday night. "For somebody who is philosophically very liberal," Rove says Mrs. Clinton will be "a very cautious candidate at times. That cautiousness will serve her well a lot of times - not always, but a lot of times."
Story Continues Below Rove's description of Mrs. Clinton as "brittle" comes two weeks after Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman described her as "angry." "Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger and voters usually do not send angry candidates to the White House," Mehlman told ABC's "This Week." "When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want." Still, Rove said that despite her flaws, the former first lady has her party's presidential nomination sewn up. He reminded that Hillary "is the dominant player on their side of the slate. Anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves." And Rove warned that Mrs. Clinton will be battle-hardened for the coming campaign. "She has seen what the job requires," he explained. "And she has been through six gubernatorial campaigns, two presidential campaigns, and then two senatorial campaigns in a big, industrial state."
The top GOP strategist said the outcome of the 2008 contest will depend on how Mrs. Clinton "conducts herself" - and who the GOP nominee is. "The question people will ask is, do we want to have her as president? And the answer to that will be determined in part by how she conducts herself. But it will also be settled in part by who the Republican nominee is and how he or she conducts themselves."
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