Posted on 04/07/2013 7:38:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton's 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren't the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don't know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.”
It's an understandable conclusion, given Clinton's stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent national job approval rating when she left office as secretary of state. An indication of how much less polarizing and how much more iconic a political figure she has become: 41 percent of Republicansexpressed their approval. When Colin Powell stepped down as secretary of state, he had a 77 percent job approval rating. But by 2005, Powell was yesterday’s man, content to amble downhill from the peak of his career. Clinton isn’t at all about nostalgia and gratitude; her best years may lie ahead of her.
Recent press reports that big-dollar Democratic donors are hanging back, waiting for the answer to will-she-or-won’t-she, make perfect sense in light of her currently prohibitive front-runner status. But Hoyer needs to get out more. It really makes no sense that all Democrats need is to see a puff of white smoke coming from the chimney at 3067 Whitehaven and the 2016 nominating process is over.
Democrats would no doubt dearly love an uncontested primary amounting to the stately coronation of Clinton. It would spare them a spectacle akin to, say, 2012 GOP primaries, in which another prohibitive front-runner came out on top, but only after a grueling process of fending off a seemingly endless procession of challengers.
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Ben Ghazi can beat her...... Like a mule !
Somebody please tell me what that means.
Well just golly!
Why bother having an election at all?
eyes rolling...
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Well she was a shoe in last time and she the smartest woman in the world ever. And was beaten by a banana head
I'd guess that a least a couple of ambitious Democrats aren't going to delay their dreams to accommodate Hillary.
The party scr**** her when they calculated the demographics for Obama and threw her under the bus. She lost to a black social worker. Who would have thunk!!
What difference would it make if she ran???
They did the same thing Karl Rove did on Fox in 2012. They underestimated ACORN/SEIU massive voter fraud.
Algore overestimated the fraud in Florida.
it makes a hell of a lot of differencve IF she can callously sit htere before cognress and say “What difference does it make’ (if An american aambassador and other Americans died in B?Enghazi) and STILL her approbval ratign remains at 70%
This country has lsot it’s friggin mind, and hte FACT that they still approve of that monster means the GOP will be in trouble for the next elections- Her ratigns after her asinine heartless comment shoudl have plummeted liek a lead balloon- but hte FACT that they actually rose after her despicable comment telsl me this country has lsot it’s moral way and prefers despicable peopel over moral ones-
Not unless the survivors talk. They’ve been silenced.
She is running. She has come out of hiding to make statements and is getting tv facetime. Lefty media is already promoting her.
I didn’t mean to come off as callous by making reference to her Benghazi testimony. A poor attempt at sarcasm on my part.
You are correct in what you say.
Someone ran a spin piece today talking about the “Hunger for Hillary” for 2016 and it was a really good thing I wasn’t eating or drinking anything when I read that.
I mean who are they trying to convince?!? Good grief. I wonder how much they paid to have a schill write that promo for her.
70% jobs approval rating? For what job? I didn’t know they took polls of the approval rating of the Sec. of State. And for sure, she doesn’t earn a 70%.
“It’s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton’s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent national job approval rating when she left office as secretary of state.”
Like anybody even knew what the hell she did as secretary of state.
I didn’t take it as callous- I’m just disturbed by the fact that she is still ratign so high even after such a despicable statement- and disturbed by the fact that htis ocutnry just doesn’t seem to give a damn how dispicable thel eft is anymore (But by golly don’t let a republican even so much as put a toe over the line or else all hell will break loose with htose same folks)
I didn’t mean to soudn as htough I was ‘correcting’ your comment- but rather I used your comment as a sprinboard to rant abotu hte state of the union we live in now-
“Why bother having an election at all?
eyes rolling...”
I know you were joking, but unfortunately, if she runs she will win. Every lib woman will vote for her, most lib men will, and she’ll steal the rest of the votes just like zero did.
Might as well just be ready. Unless God intervenes, she is the next potus.
God help us. Literally.
How quickly we have forgotten Hannity’s “Stop Hillary Express” where people were urged to change parties during the primary and vote for anyone except shrillary for the dim nomination... I remember many here on FR doing just that. What a success!! We got rid of shrillary and got zero, instead. I think it would have been better had shrillary won. (Which makes me throw up in my mouth to even say that.)
1972: Eugene McCarthy (RFK haven been taken out by an assassin).
1976: Hubert Humphrey or George Wallace
1980: Assuming either won, then Wallace or Humphrey. Had they lost, then Jerry Brown, though Wallace came close.
1984: Ted Kennedy
1988: Gary Hart, the John Edwards of the era for Freepers too young to remember
1992: Jesse Jackson. I'm not kidding. You can look it up.
1996: Jerry Brown, the 1992 runner-up. Doesn't he ever go away?
2000: Al Gore, the solitary incident where the Democrats followed the Republican system.
2004: Bill Bradley, because nobody else challenged Al Gore in 2000
2008: John Edwards
2012: Hillary Clinton in the unlikely event that any Democrat couldn't win in 2008.
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