Posted on 09/06/2023 10:39:36 AM PDT by Signalman
Don’t look now, but Hillary Clinton is still lurking in the weeds, waiting for Joe Biden to stumble. Literally.
The former Secretary of State insists she’s not running for president again, but has offered only a tepid endorsement of Biden while raising questions about his age.
“I obviously hope he stays very focused and is able to compete in the election,” Clinton said condescendingly of the 80-year-old President. “Because I think he can be re-elected and that’s what we should all hope for.”
But Clinton even agreed that falling is a potential health risk for Biden, and did not dismiss the age issue as many other in denial Democrats have.
“His age is an issue and people have every right to consider it,” she said at last weekend’s Financial Times Weekend Festival.
Clinton also said she thinks Biden is ready to run for office again and said he hasn’t gotten enough credit for his “good record” in office.
Thanks, Hillary. She’s lucky her remarks were mostly ignored.
But if hope turns to reality and Biden can’t compete, could we see a 2016 rematch between Clinton and Donald Trump?
Just because she says she’s not running again, those promises will be meaningless if Biden drops out and Democrats are suddenly left with no strong candidate.
No matter what Clinton says now, she’s the only moderate, centrist mainstream Democrat on the horizon beyond Biden. The rest are too liberal or far out of the mainstream to get elected. Think Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Clinton has not disappeared from the public eye as some expected after she decided not to run in 2020. She may be 75 but she hasn’t lost any of her competitive drive or mental faculties. She would be an instant front-runner in the Democratic primaries if she decided to go for it.
On the Republican side, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s official entry into the White House race on Wednesday isn’t scaring off Trump or his supporters.
DeSantis is no more than a political stunt man right now. Trump is still the Democrats’ greatest fear, which is why they’re trying legal maneuvers to keep him out.
There is no stop DeSantis movement like there is with Trump, because his critics don’t see DeSantis as a threat right now. He’s the backup in case Trump can’t or won’t stay in the race.
Hillary Clinton recently called out DeSantis for flying migrants to the Vineyard, and last year criticized Biden’s border policy.
Former Clinton advisers believe that’s a sign she could be interested in a 2024 run.
So Trump or DeSantis’s opponent might not be the aged, shaky Biden after all.
HRC is DEAD (sometime before 2018).
Hillary is getting close to 80 herself; and seemed in very poor health even the last time she ran for President.
Yeah, she’s is worse shape than Bidog.
Yeah, imagine how embarrassing it would be for Biden and advantageous for Hillary if Biden were caught on camera stumbling along like a zombie, and then being thrown in the back of a white van like a sack o' potatoes!
Regards,
No, she isn’t. Neither is Ms. Obama
What a stupid article.
Democrats are never going to nominate Hitlery again. The party donors wouldn’t stand for it.
They’d love to vote for Michelle Obama but she is too lazy to ever run for anything.
Can Hillary walk ?
Hillary is almost 76. She will be 77 on election day 2024.
Do the math , if she ran and won election , she would be facing running for reelection in her 80s.
So is Hillary really a great choice, if they are concerned about a president of an advanced age???
I would Love, Love, Love that. Trump would beat her by more than he did the first time.
‘Tanned, Rested and READY!’ *SMIRK*
“What a stupid article.
Democrats are never going to nominate Hitlery again. The party donors wouldn’t stand for it.
They’d love to vote for Michelle Obama but she is too lazy to ever run for anything.”
Post of the day. Thank you.
Besides, any leftist heifer hoping to jump into the 2024 fray has until no later than December 2023.
90 days to make that decision. Tick tock, tick tock as Hannity might say.
Too many important states have mid-December deadlines for filing.
Well, she did win in 2016. She says it was stolen.
Isn’t suggesting something like that a federal offense these days?
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