Ryan may want to read this from someone on his own side:
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/5/7159069/senate-2016-elections-democrats
The reason the left is flipping out so much is most of them understand the reality that they have lost the Legislative branch for the next 4 years. So even if they manage to drag Hillary’s tired old bones across the finish line in 2016 she’s going to be forced to deal with a hostile Senate and House.
And actually Monica Crowley made one of the best observations of the evening. The Democrats are in real trouble in 2016 because they are going to lack one key ingredient... Obama.
Obama was great at getting the Obama brand elected. That branding is not going to help Clinton in any way. The Obama brand was able to bring together this coalition of disgruntled leftists in a way Clinton simply cannot do. And unlike Obama during his 1st run, she has an extensive track record she will have to defend with independents, and a LOT of women simply don’t like her. And as someone who was actually inside the Obama administration she’s going to have an extremely difficult time separating herself from that because clearly the Republican playbook will be to label her as the 3rd term of Obama.
Of course the Dems will try to play the War on Women card again, but there’s a simple way around that. Who ever wins the party nomination to run against Clinton should quickly name Susana Martinez as their Vice Presidential running mate. Kills that meme dead.
The War on Women meme didn’t help Mark Udall in Colorado and he got dumped.
It wasn’t very believable and he seemed to have no other issue to run on.
Exploiting a demographic for political gain gets old real fast.
That's what I've been saying for awhile now. She's solidly conservative, very popular in her state having cruised to re-election, down-to-earth, fluent in Spanish, and will neutralize the inane non-sequitur that being for border security equtes to being anti-Hispanic. She could bring a good chunk of the Hispanic vote to the GOP.
Walker/Martinez or Cruz/Martinez (if he could somehow prevail)...