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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN

If it feels like you always hear the same rumors coming out of Washington, it’s cuz it’s kinda true. Here’s Fox News.

“Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell say 2012 may be the moment for Hillary Clinton.”

Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell -- Democratic pollsters. And Hillary Clinton of course -- Secretary of State under President Obama.

But not mincing words, in a new op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Schoen and Caddell say President Obama get out of the way in 2012. ‘
“Never before has there been such an obvious potential successor... Not only is Mrs. Clinton better positioned to win in 2012 than Mr. Obama, but she is better positioned to govern if she does.”

Doug Schoen was a pollster for former President Bill Clinton and Pat Caddell worked for former President Jimmy Carter and now Vice President Joe Biden.

And they’re not the only prominent Dems who’ve endorsed a Hillary Clinton White House. Remember this from Democratic strategist JamesCarville?

“I’m the guy on the campaign who says if Hillary gave him one of her balls he’d have two.”

Still -- Caddell and Schoen’s suggestion is sparking some serious backlash in the blogosphere.

In fact -- The American Prospect called it the “worst piece of political analysis you’ll ever read, ever.”


For The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan writes, where they went wrong is putting all the blame for the economy on President Obama.

“Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell are the Fox News Democrats and are about as representative of Democrats as a whole as Mickey Kaus. … Now ask yourself for a minute: who, outside Fox News contributors, genuinely believe that the polarization we are now experiencing is a direct result of president Obama...?”

And Newshoggers’ BJ Bjornson writes, President Obama’s been the victim of Republican obstructionism, and any Democrat would be similarlyroadblocked.

“That they think that Hillary will somehow be the one to overcome the lockstep obstructionism on the Republican side just leaves me beyond words. Seriously, what are these guys on?”

Schoen and Caddell serve as contributors on Fox News network. And we should mention this isn’t the first time they’ve called for President Obama to step aside.

Around this time last year they wrote in The Washington Post the president no longer had the quote “consent of the governed.”

When asked by the press whether she’d been interested in a future as Vice President OR President, Clinton has repeatedly said no. And toCaddell and Schoen’s own admission, she hasn’t seemed to waver since. On top of that -- filing deadlines to be on the ballot in the early primary states -- have already passed.