Posted on 02/13/2018 5:56:22 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: I had this story, I’ve had it I think since late last week and I haven’t gotten to it. And I keep seeing it in different spots in the media out there. And the most recent, the Washington Post has a story suggesting that the Democrats are getting ready to revive Hillary as the nominee in 2020. No, no. It’s not a joke. In fact, I may have mentioned one of the stories last week about this and was cackling about it.
But the Washington Post, Robert Costa, who used to be at National Review, has a piece here that suggests that Hillary is going to be the candidate in 2020, but she’s gonna do it stealthily. She’s not going to be as visible as she’s been. Let me read you an excerpt.
“There was a long line for selfies with Hillary Clinton last week at a Georgetown soiree for Lanny Davis, a Clinton loyalist whose latest book blames former FBI director James B. Comey for her 2016 presidential defeat. Clinton devotees — waiting patiently within earshot — speculated about her future. Maybe, one asked, she’d leave political winter behind and become President Trump’s foil? Another talked up a 2020 comeback. Clinton smiled, but did not respond.”
A 2020 comeback. Why is there 2020? What about the midterms? I thought the midterms were gonna be the next period of glory for the Democrat Party. 2018, the midterms this year, that’s where they’re gonna win the House back, right? But now we’ve got a Hillary Clinton comeback. And here is the next paragraph.
“In the first electoral season since the stunning loss that extinguished her years-long drive for the presidency, Clinton, 70, has begun a discreet and low-profile reentry into the political fray.” But only the 2018 fray. See, this 2020 business, that’s new. Hillary, the story I had last week, the Democrats think that Hillary is a secret weapon to win back the House in 2018. Have you seen that story out there? No, it’s there.
This is the Washington Post. “Her emerging 2018 strategy, according to more than a dozen friends and advisers familiar with her plans, is to leverage the star power she retains in some Democratic circles on behalf of select candidates while remaining sufficiently below the radar to avoid becoming a useful target for Republicans seeking to rile up their base. … ‘She’s not going to be up front,’ said Jaime Harrison, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.”
So Hillary Clinton’s gonna be lurking in the weeds. She’s gonna be slinking around out there under the surface, secretly working to energize the Democrat voter base against the nasty, dastardly Republicans this year, and then that is supposed to launch her comeback in 2020. Now, do you think a party with a future would be plotting a course like this? They must really think something happened and she got cheated. They must really think it.
The Kennedy kid doesn’t want it. The Kennedy kid was supposed to be the leading light. That’s right. Joseph Kennedy III, 34 years old, with the Vaseline drooling. He doesn’t want it. He said that he’s not interested right now. I don’t know if he said “right now” or “ever,” but he clearly said, no, no, presidency now, no. Well, Biden’s in there too. And, of course, Obama called him out yesterday. Yeah. Well, in a positive way, at the portraiture unveiling. I’m surprised that Biden’s not in that portrait, underneath the chair or hiding in the ivy.
She is going to have a tougher time in the primaries than ‘16. The democratic party has moved much harder to the left. She has a shot though. The party is fractured beyond recognition. The only thing holding them together is their hatred for President Trump. Harris, Booker, Gillibrand, and ole Feel the Bern himself will have to be dealt with. They have staked their claims and will not give up without a fight.
If she does run it will be a bad sign. It will mean that the Sessions DOJ was completely ineffectual in prosecuting the crimes of the Obama administration and the statist will be more powerful than ever.
Hey all Hillary needs is a half a percent more in WI, PA, MI while holding all those deep blue states she won and she is in. Dont laugh. She doesnt need much to win.
Hillary will be running. That’s a given. I doubt she gets the nomination though. My guess is some up and coming dem will get it. Kind of like how Obama edged Hillary out in 2008.
She has to run. It’s the only way to dodge prosecution for a few thousand felonies ranging from public records laws to murder. If that shark stops swimming she dies.
I know dead DemoRATS vote, but I really doubt that they can actually serve as President. Hillary will either be in the ground by 2020, or so physically debilitated as to eliminate the possibility of another campaign.
We couldn’t possibly get that lucky....could we???
Shes gonna have to campaign in a hoveround.
She or Michelle will have to run in order to make the investigation of Obama and Clinton crimes appear to be political persecution.
She’s wanting to shatter the glass ceiling built by Harold Stassen.
Overlooked your comment before posting. Was thinking essentially the same thing. I believe that was big factor in the 2016 campaign as well.
The Trump admin won’t go after her. Trump (Mr lock her up) said after he was elected that he wouldn’t go after her. Of course he has said the opposite also. Whatever. It doesn’t matter. The President doesn’t order prosecutions anyway. The DoJ does that and Sessions (Mr Recusal) certainly won’t mess with it.
Maybe she will be in prison in 2020...Not that that would stop her from getting 45% of the vote...The country is full of demoncrat politicians elected while felons...
Bump
The new Scooby van is gonna look like a garbage truck.
I can’t imagine the big Hollywood donors are going to throw good money after bad on this perennial loser.
No, Biden is behind the ivy, making sure this absurd idea of Cankles 2020 never happens.
BTW, that wasn't ivy. Most ivy is 3-leafed. Just look at the two 5-leafed samples touching Bobo's left arm and leg. The whole portrait is a green sea of choom...
Not happening. They’ve seen her neck, she’s kaput.
What is happening is unending, often baseless speculation about every person you’ve ever heard of maybe running for President in 2020.
Except her physical condition will do her in. Unless there is a pack of body doubles out there she won’t have a chance
‘a piece here that suggests that Hillary is going to be the candidate in 2020, but she’s gonna do it stealthily.’
more baloney from the lovable fuzzball...Hilary Clinton will not be a nominee for the POTUS ever again...
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