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She would "divert resources from other candidates, politicize their races in ways that don't play well beyond the Upper West Side, and become a rallying point for conservatives still itching to exploit anti-Clinton sentiment," thus thwarting Democratic efforts nationwide.
It's not so hard, however, to imagine the GOP following the pattern set by the Democrats after 1972: pulling themselves together momentarily to field a winning centrist candidate four years later--and then thwarting his ability to govern (as the Democrats in Congress did Jimmy Carter's)--thereby producing an era of domination by the opposition for the next two decades.
Julia Roberts is back--albeit to mixed reviews--as a malicious schemer intent on thwarting her ex-lover's engagement.
And it's suggested that the current goal of thwarting Saddam's ability to wage chemical and biological warfare is far more nebulous than 1991's objective of throwing Saddam out of Kuwait.
Christine Todd Whitman, refers either to your ability to make up your own joke, or to Hillary Clinton's thwarting the governor from shaking hands with newly arriving Kosovo refugees.