Hillary never stood a chance, and all the insiders know it.
Her run for the White House is nothing more than a sham to make it appear to her 'donors' that she really intends to make good on her wink-and-nod promises to deliver the goods, after they shoveled hundreds of millions of dollars into her 'foundation'.
She and Bill knew full well that 2008 was her last possible hope of ever being elected as president. Once Obama took that away from them, the only other alternative was to convince rich suckers around the world that the Clinton brand was still marketable, and that she was a shoe-in for president in 2016.
For their part, the DNC was willing to throw the nomination to Hillary to help her fool the marks, because they already knew the Republicans would take back the White House this year. It didn't cost them anything to ease Bill and Hillary out the door for good.
Oh I don't know - if Trump didn't magically appear on the scene, we'd be looking at Jeb laying the White House at her feet right now.
Algore did basically the same thing. When he lost in 2000, he decided to cash in for everything he could squeeze from dumb liberals. He reaped a kings ransom from the geniuses of Silicon Valley.
Your analysis is well done, sir.
You may be right about the DNC’s expectations, but I don't believe for a minute that HRC is less than 100% committed to being elected President. She is dying to be President; she also was too greedy not to create the Clinton Foundation slush fund.
If the FBI/DOJ/Trump turn up the heat on the email server/foundation issues, it's possible the Dems will try to nudge HRC out, but she will never acquiesce. They are stuck with her.
Prescient.
Good job.