Posted on 11/22/2012 8:37:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
America has never had a female major party candidate nominated to be president, but the odds are growing that it will happen in 2016.
The current favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination is a woman, and there are at least four other potential candidates in both parties.
It isn’t that female candidates haven’t tried. Hillary Clinton came the closest when she lost the Democratic nomination in 2008 to Barack Obama.
Here’s a look at the top prospects for 2016, starting with the Democratic frontrunner.
Hillary Clinton
The current Secretary of State is a huge favorite for the 2016 nomination for her party.
Clinton is expected to step down from her cabinet position next year. She would be 68 years old at the time of the 2016 convention.
The big question is if she will pursue the nomination.
Clinton has said in the past that she wasn’t interested in a second presidential run. But political watchers believe it will be Clinton’s decision in about two years to pursue the nomination.
One sign that experts point to was the tireless work of her husband, President Bill Clinton, in the final weeks of the Obama campaign.
The Clintons have collected an impressive amount of political IOUs, so it’s unclear if anyone in the Democratic Party would contest her nomination if she ran...
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Hitlery in a lock.
If Obama allows elections.
Lame comment.
I don’t see any of those winning their party’s nomination. Not even Hillary. She’ll be far too old, fat, and saggy by then. She’ll look four years more horrible than she looks now. Eek. Besides, the dims will have come up with some other, further-left nitwit to run by then.
none of the above, thank you!!
You say that because?
From the article.
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Warren (if HRC doesn’t run)
Condoleezza Rice
Sarah Palin
Susanna Martinez
Elizabeth Warren ...HAHAHAHA - who dreams up this crap!
Hillary Clinton = Lady Gaza
I’m stealing that!
Lord Dumbo cannot stop the next election. I’m tired of that BS nonsense.
What do all dictators do? They rig elections. Do you think this recently passed one was fairly done? Do you think 2014 and 2016 will be fair? Do you really have faith in about half the country, confident they’ll grow up in two and four years? I sure as hell don’t, and I live in NYC. Yeah, I don’t have exposure to the south like a lot of FReepers do, but do you really think Obama will let Congress, the Senate and the Supreme Court do their constitutionally delegated jobs? He’s already growing his branch to overstep Congress, what makes you think he’ll have a change of heart and stop?
Sarah is the only one on the list that I would vote for and hope she is President before I croak!!!!
Yes, my family members are certifiably insane.
The GOP is building a good team for the future.
We should have many good choices to choose from.
I would take a post op tranny Newt or “Nancy” Gingrich over Hillary if we just HAVE to have a female president....
“Condoleezza Rice”
I have always believed the plan was that after GWB won his second term, Dick Cheney would become ‘ill’ and Ms Rice would become VP. Good, bad, or indifferent, it would have set up a 2008 nightmare scenario for the democraps, running against a woman and a black.
Unfortunately, when she went up for Sec of State, the democraps in the Senate really played rough, and she lost all further taste for politics. Witness her relative absence during the last six years.
I believe she is done with politics forever.
I have family members who are giddy over the thought of Moochelle Obama becoming the first female president.
Yes, my family members are certifiably insane.
Don’t they know we ALREADY have a female president and her Name is Valerie Jarrett, and if moochelle gets in it means 8 more damn years of Jarrett....
The Libs usedwhine that Cheney was Bush Jr. “Puppet Master”....
Jarrett makes Cheney look like a complete amataeur....
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