Sometimes a simple throwaway line has this way of stickingĀ to the wall.
President Obama just might have uttered it recently in an interview. He said the next president may need to bring a “new car smell” to American voters.
And that brings up the question: Does Hillary Rodham Clinton — the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 — have that “new car smell”?
A former Clinton pollster, Doug Schoen, doesn’t think so.
According to The Hill: “‘The president said [last week] that the next president needs ā¦ a new car smell, and itās pretty hard for me to say ā¦ that she [Hillary] has a new car smell,’ Schoen told radio host John Catsimatidis in an interview to air Sunday on New York’s 970 AM.”
Yes, she’s been in the public eye for a long time, dating back to 1992 when Bill Clinton told Americans if you elect him as president, “you get two.” She became a highly visible first lady, then became an equally high-visible senator from New York and then became an even more highly visible secretary of state in the Obama administration.
New car smell?
Hardly.
For that matter, Mitt Romney seems a bit musty himself if you consider that he’s run twice for president, been a high-profile governor in Massachusetts and also helped rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A Quinnipiac Poll shows Romney leading Clinton narrowly in a head-to-head matchup. But, hey, the election is two years off.
I’d bet real money that “new car smell” just might become something of a jingle once the next campaign gets going.
John, you might want to look at Jim Webb’s site. He has just announced that he is exploring a run. You might like his smell; it’s new.