This is one bitter, angry miserable old women...and that's not going to change.
Posted on 10/28/2017 10:15:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Protests to the contrary notwithstanding, Hillary Clinton is still interested in being a presidential candidate in 2020.
Further evidence of this emerged this week with a Washington Post piece headlined, “Hillary 2020? Trump better hope not.”
It then goes on to outline why Clinton “would be well-positioned to win in a rematch.”
In response to an Oct. 16 tweet in which Trump said he’d been asked whether “Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020 …” and said, “I hope so!” Michael Brenes, a historian and senior archivist at Yale University, said not so fast.
“Putting aside the reckless braggadocio – and blatant sexism – inherent in such a statement, the entire scenario seems absurd,” Brenes wrote. He did not explain what was blatantly sexist about Trump predicting he would win a rematch.
Few expect Clinton to run, he said, and most doubt she could win the Democratic nomination if she did. Clinton herself has said she has no plans to run.
“Trump should be careful what he wishes for,” Brenes wrote. “Clinton might not be a potential candidate now, but the political winds can change quickly. Recent American history is rife with presidential contenders who lost the primary or general election and then went on to become a candidate in subsequent elections.”
Yes, many losing candidates do try their luck later in other elections. But at the presidential level, losing becomes its own impediment. People don’t want to back a candidate who has run and lost before, as Mitt Romney found out abruptly from the colder-than-ice reception he received when he floated the idea of jumping into the 2016 race.
Clinton lost twice when heavily favored against political novices when her supposed advantage – in-depth knowledge of policy in a variety of areas – ended up helping little. There is evidence her campaign and the Democratic National Committee colluded to shut out Bernie Sanders.
Not only that, she lost in both cases because she ran badly managed campaigns that misallocated resources, could not settle a consistent message and were not able to portray Clinton in the best light. A scandal that was not present even on Election Day emerged that likely would weaken whatever enthusiasm there might be for her campaign.
Brenes said all this can be overcome because of Trump’s “abysmally low approval ratings and inability to deliver on signature campaign promises (building a border wall, ending NAFTA and repealing the Affordable Care Act, to name a few), and Clinton could once more emerge as a serious challenger.”
Meanwhile, samples of what the wall might look like are up now near San Diego along the Mexican border. NAFTA is being renegotiated, and Trump, with his recent executive orders, has, for all intents and purposes, repealed Obamacare anyway.
Brenes’ point is that Clinton still “retains significant support within her party, and Democrats currently have no clear front-runner to replace her.” No one questions the Clintons could raise significant money for such a run, and Brenes claims she would have a “vibrant, large, motivated base of supporters angry at Trump, Russian interference in the election and former FBI director James Comey – in their minds, the collective robbers of Clinton’s presidency.”
Trump could find himself in trouble in 2020 if an unpopular war breaks out or the economy falters, and voters “come to believe they made a mistake and look to Clinton to rectify the wrong,” Brenes said.
But “like Nixon and Reagan, Clinton can win the presidency in 2020 thanks to a combination of demographic and electoral shifts among voters and uncertainty about their futures.”
This is an example of a go-against-the-grain story designed to provoke thought. The writer is given some leeway to get the discussion flowing. But when you have someone declaring she would have a “vibrant, large, motivated base of supporters” doubly angry at Trump, you’re substituting wishful thinking for clear and hope for reality.
She has no better chance of winning now than she did before.
Likely even less as I keep hearing Trump is winning over more people every week.
This is one bitter, angry miserable old women...and that's not going to change.
Lol.
Hillary should run, but leave the heels in the closet (I mean shoes, not Bill) and let someone else carry the coffee. She can’t afford another inverted tumble down the stairs.
She will lose the primaries if she presents her fat a$$ to the public yet again in 2020.
I don't think the first part of that statement is anywhere near the truth - the clinton wing of the party is in the process of being purged
I'm going to be sexist and encourage her to run anyhow
“...WaPo Predicts a Hillary Win in 2020 Rematch....”
“Hale Predicts Instant Civil War” if that happens...
(Not her real shoe.)
Hillary is already on borrowed time with major health problems. She will be in an old folks home or dead soon.
Most of us will say the right words but be glad she is gone. Sooner or later justice is done even if we have to wait for the grim reaper to do it.
The left can’t separate reality from fantasy.
WaPo might predict it, but donors were already balking shortly after her loss in 2016. Couple that with her 2008 loss to Obama, and she does not have a good track record.
Then, there is the issue of her health. That will dog her again, should she try another run.
And, there is the well-known fact that many just do not like, do not trust her. These current investigations/scandals are not helping and neither is her continued reliance on women’s issues. Focus groups told her in 2016 that women’s issues were not helping her gain any ground. Rather, her continual harping caused her to lose ground.
The last thing WE need is a “What Happened, A Thousand More Excuses, 2020 edition.”
Hillary - 13 laws broken with the Dossier scandal.
Hillary - Over 100 years of indictable offenses back in 1994.
Hillary - Pay-to-Play incidents too numerous to list here with the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State.
Hillary - The Uranium One Treason, just starting to be investigated.
I can think of at least 20 scandals, too numerous to mention here.
Yeah, great idea WaPo, have her run in 2020. I'm sure they'll provide closed circuit TV at Leavenworth for campaign speeches and fluff interviews. Good Luck!
She could barely manage to campaign for 2016. She’ll be even more sickly for 2020. I Don’t she can do it, physically.
..Endlessly acting like children....remember this!.LOL..
Interesting observation.
I wonder about people like that. Hillary, Soros, I think Warren Buffet is in that category--they have everything they could need or want, and yet it seems they are stuck on this obsession to keep accumulating money. Why?
The world is upside down. Take the case of Illinois. Trump got blown out in Illinois. For the most part Hillary won all the big population centers. If you count by county, Hillary only won 11 out of 100 counties or so. This was a rural versus metro election. When I went to school in southern Illinois years ago, it was all democrat come election time. There may have been 2 counties south of central Illinois that went for Hillary in 2016. Amazing...
By then science may be able to create real walking dead and she’ll be their first. Millions of Dems will still vote for zombie Hillary.
June 27, 2016
A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton taking a double-digit lead over Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Her biting people will only get her more Dem votes.
I honestly don’t think HRC will be around in 2019 to run.
IMO, she won’t be alive in 2020.
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