Besides, I'm tired of all this crap. Political analysts noted that it was highly unusual for an incumbent president to concede defeat nearly 18 months before the election to a potential opponent who had not yet won a single primary . But the president is taking a very realistic view of his prospects. He has decided there's no point in putting the country through an expensive, ritualistic campaign the outcome of which is already a foregone conclusion. The party insider dismissed suggestions that Clinton is, in any event, actually precluded from running for re-election, and that it may be presumptuous for him to speak for all potential Democratic candidates, including his deputy executive assistant, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Nobody wants any piece of that guy.
The president is doing Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Hillary all a favor by throwing in the towel now. It will also give the party a chance to get its funding together before the next real election. Sources said the Democratic leadership had been debating what to do in the face of Bush's astonishing showing in the polls in recent months. It's campaign genius for the new millenium. Democrats were grudgingly impressed by the Bush campaign committee's foresight in buying up hundreds of web domain names that could be used for anti-Bush propaganda sites.