Posted on 11/12/2014 11:47:52 AM PST by Din Maker
The new conventional wisdom on Hillary: The Democrats should thank their lucky stars because she’s all that stands between them and political oblivion.
What a difference a midterm debacle makes.
If you think about the Democrats’ outlook without Hillary Clinton, it’s rather sobering. The New Yorker just chatted up three other presidential aspirants: Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb. Ahem. Case closed.
We’ll come back to the also-rans, but there is a danger for the Dems here that extends beyond 2016. To put it bluntly: this team has a very thin bench.
The party has simply atrophied under Barack Obama.
In the speculation sweepstakes, each party usually has up-and-coming governors and senators who could ripen into presidential prospects. But after 2010 and 2014, many of the Democrats who might fall into that category have lost their jobs, or never gotten into office at all.
Statehouses are particularly important because that’s where candidates get executive experience, and four of the five presidents before Obama had been governors. But the GOP just won gubernatorial elections in such blue states as Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, along with Florida and Wisconsin.
Andrew Cuomo won reelection in a landslide, but he seems more respected than loved, and has made few moves toward raising his national profile. Jerry Brown also won reelection, but he was the hot young presidential contender back in…1976.
So Hillary’s shadow looms large over the entire party.
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The ‘RATS think that it’s Slick Willie’s wife’s turn to be president. Weird.
The Democrats could run Chris Christy, or John McCain. I hear they love those two liberals or at least those two liberal love them democrats.
Fauxahontas will be their candidate.
They traded their entire bench for The Magic Muslim. That’s why.
They have a peanut gallery though.
Let's see.... O'Malley's successor in MD just tanked. Bernie Sanders is an admitted socialist, and Webb is always one step away from attacking a reporter or a heckler. This is the bench?
I have major doubts as to whether Hitlery will even run. The young kids like Bernie Sanders and Fauxcahontas. Would not surprise me to see the party dump Hill for one of them.
Elizabeth Warren could end up owning the banking/economyFederalReserve issue. Rand Paul doesn't seem to have his dad's DNA on that issue, and none of the 'pubs are talking it.
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life.
Like 0bama, Fauxahontas is a blank slate, a non-person. She doesn’t bring the publicly known baggage that makes Shrillery unelectable. Fauxahontas’ handlers can write any role they want her to play, and the media will follow the script.
For a couple years now, I’d been assuming Hillary would be not only nominated but elected in a walk.
But now.. the more I look at her, it becomes easier to think... “this is all you have, dems... she’s what you’re putting forward?”
Today there is a Ted Harvey chain-email making the rounds that Hillary! (TM) will announce next month.
This is a surprise! Did I miss the “Announcement of the Announcement”? Surely, there would have been an “Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement” or an “Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement”... but obviously, I missed those as well. Not keeping up on the news like I should have...
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life.
Every thing you stated is why I’m so concerned that the issue of the Federal Reserve and banking decisions favoring the elite is being left wide open. I had expected that Rand Paul would follow in his dad’s foot steps with that issue.
They forgot to mention Al Franken. He’s supposedly on their short list too.
“Fauxahontas will be their next candidate.”
Yup. And Julian Castro is the VP . Take care of the women/Hispanic voters.
Guess Cruz/Ernst or Cruz/Haley wouldn’t compare.
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