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Report: Bill Clinton Aide Voting for Romney to Help ‘Propel’ Hillary ‘Toward the Oval Office’ in 2016

Sep. 4, 2012 11:30am Billy Hallowell

It’s the week of the Democratic National Convention, so news of a prominent liberal figure planning to cast a vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would naturally deliver a stinging blow to the Obama camp. But, this is apparently what may be unfolding as part of a behind-closed-doors plot to boost Hillary Clinton’s political power. According to reports, Douglas Band, a prominent Bill Clinton aide, is planning to support Romney in November.

Bill Clinton Aide Reportedly Plans to Vote for Romney | Hillary Clinton

Presidents Bill Clinton (left) and Barack Obama (right) (AP File Photo)

POLITICO notes that the surprising action is allegedly being taken in an apparent move “to strengthen Hillary Clinton’s position in the Democratic Party.” In an article for The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza writes about this purported situation:

For Clinton, the politics are more complicated. His associates take it as a given that he would like nothing more than to see his wife become President. Hillary Clinton will step down as Secretary of State after the campaign and begin the process of deciding whether she will run in 2016. By some measures, a defeat for Obama in November would leave Hillary the undisputed leader of her party and propel her toward the Oval Office that much faster. At least one of Clinton’s closest advisers seems to be backing that strategy. According to two people with direct knowledge, Douglas Band has said that he will vote for Romney. Band declined to comment.

Credit: AP

If true, this would be immensely noteworthy, particularly because Band has been a longtime Clinton confidant. He advised Bill Clinton for years and played a key role, as POLITICO notes, in the formation and management of the former president’s Clinton Global Initiative.

In the end, one might assume that, if this strategy is in place, it extends beyond Band and is being undertaken by other prominent Democrats as well. Of course, this is merely conjecture, but, considering the revelations presented in Edward Klein’s book about Obama entitled, “Amateur,” it’s worth noting.

As TheBlaze reported earlier this year, prior to the current presidential campaign, Clinton allegedly urged his wife to quit her job and challenge Obama for president in 2012. In the book, Klein quotes conversations Clinton apparently had with his wife.

“Barack Obama,” Bill said, according to book excerpts obtained by the New York Post, “is an amateur.” Bill told Hillary in another excerpt, “The economy’s a mess, it’s dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating … . You know better than Obama does.”

While the situation seems to be improving between Bill Clinton and Obama, any truth behind these allegations would naturally hamper relations.

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HigherRoad
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:58pm
Colin Powell had no reservations in announcing his vote for Obama in 2008, so why shouldn’t Douglas Band have the same opportunity to cast his vote for whomever he chooses.

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LameLiberals
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:45pm
Hillary Clinton’s Glowing Analysis of Alinksy’s Marxist Model

http://www.infowars.com/hillary-clintons-glowing-analysis-of-alinksys-marxist-model/

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dave88
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:44pm
Wouldn’t it be great if Bill Clinton threw Obama under the bus at the convention? I know its not going to happen but it would be the highlight of the democrat convention for years.

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- RossPoldark
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:07pm
  No, he won’t do it. He has is nose so far up Obama’s bum. Anything for the person ‘Hillary’ who wears the pants in the family.
  
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jackact
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:40pm
…which means Andrew Cuomo is done.
Good thing too because we have enough thug-gangsters in government as it is.
Now, do we start mentioning Mrs. Clinton’s amazing success as secretary-of-state and begin running the screeching Hillary videos now?

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- LameLiberals
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:45pm
  a defeat for Obama in November would leave Hillary the undisputed leader of her party and propel her toward the Oval Office that much faster.
  
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  So she would run against Romney in his 2nd term? If the economy is gangbusters – how would she win?
  
  I am sick of the Clintons and Bushes.
  
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- Copper Catfish
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:04am
  I’m sick of ALL progressives! Let’s just get back to God and the Constitution and get the government OUT of our business! If we as a country do these things, we will prosper.
  
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jacobstroubles
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:32pm
Never gonna happen…

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teddrunk
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:16pm
If Hillary becomes President, it will usher in a new era of mysterious suicide attempts, a Fort Marcy Park corpse collection, and burning women and children to death with tank mounted flame throwers.

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floridareader
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:50pm
If we defeat Obama, as I suspect we will, do not expect to have Mitt Romney as one term president. We need him for two terms. By then, let’s say 2020, grandma Clinton will be too tired to try, again, to sell America to the best bid.
Just keep dreaming, just keep dreaming…

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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:03pm
  I share your dream, FLORIDA! This article prompted me to look up ole Hill’s age. She’ll be 69 in 2016. Age hasn’t been kind to Hill thus far but I think she’ll still make a go at running. Her ego wants the Presidency more than she can stand it.
  
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TerryJ70
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:28pm
Wouldn’t it be refreshing to think that Bill Clinton will go on national TV and chastise Obama. I could hear him say “Don’t vote for this lying POS! Don’t believe anything this man says. His only intention is to completely downgrade our country, this same country I worked extremely hard to protect.”

Okay, I’m awake now. Never mind.

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dictionmary
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:26pm
The stale saga of the Hil’n Bill show redux.

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Konacow
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:24pm
The question is whom would be under her desk in the Oval office in the White House?

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- zjak
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:53pm
  That would be KONACOW……hahahaha
  
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- right
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Thanks for the laugh. I love it!!
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:20pm
Hillary misses air force one, that’s her plane damn it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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woodyee
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:05pm
Just one of millions who will be doing the same in November. G’bye Gaybama!

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geomann
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:04pm
That is actually a pretty smart move. Hillary would have made a much better president than Barack Obama. Even if I disagree with most of her political beliefs, at least she cares about the USA, .

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- Whistleblower
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Is President Barack Obama being blackmailed ?
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/09/01/is-president-barack-obama-being-blackmailed/
  
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- hillbillyinny
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:36pm
  Sorry @geoman, I really have to disagree re. Hillary. I believe that Bill Clinton loves the U.S., but Hillary was one of the founders with George Soros of much of the progressive infrastructure that is in place today!
  
  See much information that is available at “Discover the Networks,” especially on the Center for American Progress (CAP) at: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6709
  
  There is much other information out there on Hillary’s connection to Soros and other progressive efforts. Also, have you viewed recently, Hillary’s statement while she was campaigning for the presidential nomination, when she declared (with fire in her eyes!), “I’m not a liberal! I am a PROGRESSIVE”! It made chills go down my spine, and at the time, I didn’t even understand what a “progressive” stood for. Now that I do, it puts more than chills down my spine, it can stop my breath in fear!
  
  Hillary Clinton is no better than Obama! She just doesn’t have the Chicago Mob connections he has, but she has the intent and the determination to “remold” the U.S. in the progressive/communistic ideal, even to doing her senior paper on Saul Alinsky!
  
  She is a chameleon! Do not be deceived.
  
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mooshoo
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:04pm
Let us get rid of Obama first, then worry about Hillary…
First we have to deal with the current problem.
Next we worry about 2016.
Not voting means giving Obama the second term, at which point I doubt if we will have elections come 2016.

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:57am
I guess the people at the top of the food-chain [doubt their owns skills] for rebuilding their own riches, because otherwise they would be in favor of all debt getting erased to hit the reset button.

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grams09
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:51am
I guess Biden would be the democrat nominee is 2016 if Pres. Obama is re-elected. Now that’s scary.

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justangry
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:49am
So a vote for Romney is a vote for Hillary now…. I knew a vote for Romney was a vote for Obama’s policies, but this is just icing on the cake. Are we still maintaining that one progressive is better than the other?

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- MODEL82A1
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:53am
  JUST, be VERY clear, there is no WE as far as you’re concerned. There are Realists and there are Nutjobs. And we Realists do not want anything to do with you Nutjobs.
  
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- PutMoreOnMyPlate
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Welcome to the cult of the Romney worshippers. Leave your truth at the door and get your knee pads on. Always chasing the peanut that promises a better America and smashing opposition at every chance. Republicans are Democrats in an elephant suit. They’re too brainwashed to realize it. Romney lost my vote by not having the balls to keep a third candidate on the ballot much less have a debate. Sounds like a bully to me. Oh wait that’s reality. Dirty tactics justified in the end by the fear of another four years of Obama. I’ll take that chance before voting for the same thing.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:36pm
  @Model, Since when did realists assume they can speak for anyone other than themselves? You might go back to realist school there, champ. You might want to take a course in not resorting to childish name calling while you’re there.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:39pm
  One thing is certain.. a vote for Dr Kook is a vote for Obama
  
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- resme
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:42pm
  @republicorp, Romney will kill enough muslim children to suit your taste, Don’t worry.
  
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- Copper Catfish
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:09am
  You didn’t watch the RNC last Thursday, did you?
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:44am
It amazing how out of touch the politicians are about the state of the economy. They just continue on with the only game they know how to play.

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- iblvingd
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:06pm
  The new proposed global money is Cllimate and Carbon Credits Hilary was the US Delegate at Rio 20 earth summit. Lets hope Mitt gets in and stays for 2 terms. Need to slow the progression of the new fiat money of thin air.
  
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copatriots
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:42am
Watch your back, Mr. Band. Two words:

Bill Gwatney

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Good point, I guess the Dem-wits have enough lambs ready to sacrifice themselves for the cause.
  
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Mike Benton
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:40am
Can some sports guru look back and see if there were Blacks who were given a shot but failed before the prominent ones made the big time? Think about Jesse Owens or Jim Brown or great baseball stars…who came before them and failed. Obama won’t be the last Black President, bu the will be the first failed Black president.

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- OneTermPresident
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:48am
  They don’t like it… but he’s not the first Black president, he’s the first Mulatto president. They don’t like to talk about OR MENTION the FACT he’s HALF WHITE.
  
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- geomann
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:02pm
  Calling him black is in fact based in racism. Back in the days of slavery, anyone with part black ancestry was called black, as if their blood was tainted by even a small portion of a different race.
  
  Barack Obama is, however, the first president who does not put the interests of the United States first. The movie 2016 was very enlightening, without casting the President as a bad man.
  
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DDD
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:38am
I haven’t understood why Bill Clinton would be doing whatever he could to get Obama reelected. Just doesn’t make sense. If Obama remains in office another four years, there’s NO WAY that a democrat will be elected in 2016. The country will have been flushed down into the sewers by then and the country will turn to republicans to save it (albeit, probably too late). So it makes much for sense for Bill to sabotage Obama, Romney wins and Hillary comes back in four years with the argument that she can do better than Romney.

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- Mike Benton
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:43am
  Good argument. I bet there are a lot of Democrats who secretly want Obama to loose so Romney can take his shot; If Obama wins and things get worse, as they surly will, the Democrats are done for a generation. Or we are all done in by failed socialism that will take a generation to undo.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:44am
  This strategy only works if the economy does not rebound under Romney
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:55am
  It should be interesting since supposedly Bill isn’t allowing his speech to be “vetted” (pun intended) by 0′s team.
  
  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_clinton_plans_to_upstage_the_2FwMFHFfkOGNT8OfwaFkmO
  
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- DDD
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:57am
  If Romney succeeds, and I certainly hope he does, then we’ll have 8 years and can come out in 2020 with the democrat’s argument that we don’t want to go back to the ‘failed policies’ of the past.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:13pm
  If I have one prayer, it’s that the Clintons exit politics forever. Go away, please just go away.
  
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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:38am
This is a BRILLIANT strategy. I strongly encourage every Democrat to do the same.

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:38am
A Presidential or candidate promising government action to solve situations does more to take away people’s individual abilities to create than the government creates itself. All the people who voted for Obama thinking they would get something for free have knocked themselves to the bottom of the ladder, because they have dulled their own minds and hearts. Meanwhile back at the reality-ranch, people who depend on themselves have thought about ways to survive; ways to build; tools to use; ideas of self sufficiency; moreover ideas that can be turned into [Help Books, novels, businesses and investments]. Sloths who want the government to do for them just keep knocking themselves further down the ladder by their own hands.

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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:36am
Hillary Clinton: Did her college thesis on Saul Alinsky because SHE IDOLIZED HIM She’s VERY CLOSE FRIENDS with GEORGE SOROS!. Does America REALLY want Bill Clinton back in the WH?

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- CatB
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:46am
  NO but you know the Clinton’s will do WHATEVER it takes to get back in .. we must not let that happen.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:28pm
  CATB, Geez, just can’t wait until the 2016 campaigns when Matthews gets in front of the camera to call all of us SEXISTS. Just go ahead and get used to it now.
  
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:36am
‘Strengthen Hillary’s Position’ & ‘Propel Her Toward the Oval Office’

OK, and monkeys are flyin outa my **** too!

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:45am
  They only know how to play the only cards they already have; the only programming their minds know.
  
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