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Who Wants The Team Of Rivals?

By The Daily Dish
May 23 2008, 2:28 AM ET

Matt on Clinton as veep:

...you don't need Clinton on the ticket to unify the party unless Clinton wants to make it the case that you need Clinton on the ticket to unify the party but if she does want to do that, I think she probably has it in her power...But I remain skeptical that Clinton actually does want to be Vice President. My take is that a substantial swathe of her staff wants her to be Vice President because they think a "unity ticket" is now their best realistic shot at getting jobs in the executive branch. As I've observed before, Bill and Hillary have great fallback jobs -- as multimillionaires, and the head of an important foundation and a U.S. Senator respectively -- but that's not at all true of lots of their campaign staffers.

The Clintons have no fallback jobs. This is their entire life. Losing is simply unimaginable to them. It's been decades since it happened, and it was traumatic for them even then.



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