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Bob Shrum: No One’s Going to Challenge Hillary Clinton
The Daily Beast ^ | May 10, 2014 | Robert Shrum

Posted on 05/10/2014 3:50:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ignore the talk about purity tests, progressive cred, and skipping to a post-presidency status. Clinton won’t be denied this time—and she’s going to make history.

The non-race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, all but unprecedented in non-incumbent contests, is confounding to journalists and pundits, to the quoteratti whose words sustain their output, and to the partisan spinners whose mission is to bend the arc of the story. But the political cycle—-and the 24-hour news cycle—has its own relentless rhythms. If you’re one of the boys, and now girls, on the bus, even if it hasn’t rolled into Iowa yet, it’s hard to cover a foregone conclusion. If you’re a Republican, then just maybe Hillary Clinton, the certain nominee if she runs, can be damaged or deterred.

If you’re on the left, maybe you can nudge her ideologically. Or you can just come up with a fresh take, attention-getting and perhaps friendly, even if it’s implausible and unpersuasive, an unavailing piece of unsolicited advice.

All this will happen all the way until Hillary announces—and will mutate into variant strains until the day she’s inaugurated.

One recurrent meme is that she isn’t liberal enough to prevail in the primaries—a wish dressed up as analysis or a weirdly poll-uninformed argument....

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


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I was worried there for a while, but if he says she's a lock, she won't even run.
1 posted on 05/10/2014 3:50:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Christie and Trump should challenge her.


2 posted on 05/10/2014 3:52:12 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

Exactly. No other dems seem to be remotely in shouting distance.


3 posted on 05/10/2014 3:55:02 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe Hitlary Clinton can explain why she refused to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organization..but hey, when it comes to being a Communist, one must not have to explain why they condone murder


4 posted on 05/10/2014 3:55:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Zaphod will challenge Hillery. One of the heads will announce that it is lesbian... and was fathered by Bill Clinton

Hillery will not stand a chance!


5 posted on 05/10/2014 3:55:50 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "...[willful] ignorance is the opiate of academic elites." - Mike Adams [BN edit])
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To: ScottinVA

So the orders have gone out that she is untouchable?


6 posted on 05/10/2014 3:56:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: FatherofFive

So would Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, some peace/antiwar candidates, attack her from the left where all the radical Lib trolls live in primaries.


7 posted on 05/10/2014 3:56:32 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And then out of no where a Banana Head whooped her a$$


8 posted on 05/10/2014 3:57:38 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: GeronL

Hurry up. I want to vote for her.

Crash and burn this thing asap! Can’t take it anymore.


9 posted on 05/10/2014 3:57:39 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: shalom aleichem

Gore and Biden too?


10 posted on 05/10/2014 3:58:25 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Left has no moral compass. The only value they hold is make new laws and expand government if there’s a problem or perceived problem, Constitution be dam-ed. The party of malicious tyrants is moved along by the justifications of naive do-gooders (and careless students who blindly vote for things like “cool”).


11 posted on 05/10/2014 3:59:41 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: bicyclerepair

Lol


12 posted on 05/10/2014 4:00:19 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

White man speak with forked tongue. Fauxcahantas has a surprise waiting for Hillary. Ambush at Old Lady Creek.


13 posted on 05/10/2014 4:00:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who gave all the Democrats a “stand down” order?

The same one who gave the US military a stand down order on 9-11-2012?


14 posted on 05/10/2014 4:03:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: GeronL

she is untouchable?

Leprosy?

We will have a woman for President but it will be Sarah.


15 posted on 05/10/2014 4:10:03 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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I hate to say it, but she will likely be our next President. I know she blew it in 2008, but the pundits who turned on her in support of Obama will be back in her corner in 2016. She will have the MSM on her side this time, and her followers will ignore Benghazi and Boko Haram.

Our only hope is to find a qualified female candidate who will challenge her on these issues and run an error free campaign. IMHO.

16 posted on 05/10/2014 4:15:11 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Boy, who could that be? Some Ripon Republican from the Northeast or upper Midwest?


17 posted on 05/10/2014 4:17:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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18 posted on 05/10/2014 4:17:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The dems are trying for a repeat of 2012: their candidate is coronated while the GOP’s candidates tear each other up in a circus-like media coverage atmosphere. It’s nauseating.

The GOPe fighting its own base doesn’t help a damn bit either.


19 posted on 05/10/2014 4:19:02 PM PDT by MarkRegal05
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She can’t pass the physical. Her body is producing blood clots.


20 posted on 05/10/2014 4:19:30 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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