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Hanging it all on Hillary; why the Democrats have no bench
FOX News ^ | November 12, 2014 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 11/12/2014 11:47:52 AM PST by Din Maker

The new conventional wisdom on Hillary: The Democrats should thank their lucky stars because she’s all that stands between them and political oblivion.

What a difference a midterm debacle makes.

If you think about the Democrats’ outlook without Hillary Clinton, it’s rather sobering. The New Yorker just chatted up three other presidential aspirants: Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb. Ahem. Case closed.

We’ll come back to the also-rans, but there is a danger for the Dems here that extends beyond 2016. To put it bluntly: this team has a very thin bench.

The party has simply atrophied under Barack Obama.

In the speculation sweepstakes, each party usually has up-and-coming governors and senators who could ripen into presidential prospects. But after 2010 and 2014, many of the Democrats who might fall into that category have lost their jobs, or never gotten into office at all.

Statehouses are particularly important because that’s where candidates get executive experience, and four of the five presidents before Obama had been governors. But the GOP just won gubernatorial elections in such blue states as Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, along with Florida and Wisconsin.

Andrew Cuomo won reelection in a landslide, but he seems more respected than loved, and has made few moves toward raising his national profile. Jerry Brown also won reelection, but he was the hot young presidential contender back in…1976.

So Hillary’s shadow looms large over the entire party.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; hillary
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Well, they've been killing their "bench" in the womb for 45 years. As far as the abortion survivors, whom they hoped would be their young, attractive, Progressive "bench".... well, they were annihilated on Tuesday November 4th. They got their butts handed to them in the Midterm Elections. 90 percent of them will not make a come-back try in politics. They're moving on. Good enough! Move on down the road.
1 posted on 11/12/2014 11:47:53 AM PST by Din Maker
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The ‘RATS think that it’s Slick Willie’s wife’s turn to be president. Weird.


2 posted on 11/12/2014 11:51:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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To: Din Maker

The Democrats could run Chris Christy, or John McCain. I hear they love those two liberals or at least those two liberal love them democrats.


3 posted on 11/12/2014 11:56:22 AM PST by DaveyB
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Im sorry but OBIE will have the last word on this one.....


4 posted on 11/12/2014 11:56:46 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Fauxahontas will be their candidate.


5 posted on 11/12/2014 11:57:59 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Din Maker

They traded their entire bench for The Magic Muslim. That’s why.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 11:58:10 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Din Maker

They have a peanut gallery though.


7 posted on 11/12/2014 12:03:37 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Din Maker

8 posted on 11/12/2014 12:05:52 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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The New Yorker just chatted up three other presidential aspirants: Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb.

Let's see.... O'Malley's successor in MD just tanked. Bernie Sanders is an admitted socialist, and Webb is always one step away from attacking a reporter or a heckler. This is the bench?

9 posted on 11/12/2014 12:07:15 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I have major doubts as to whether Hitlery will even run. The young kids like Bernie Sanders and Fauxcahontas. Would not surprise me to see the party dump Hill for one of them.


10 posted on 11/12/2014 12:08:50 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Fauxahontas will be their next candidate

Elizabeth Warren could end up owning the banking/economyFederalReserve issue. Rand Paul doesn't seem to have his dad's DNA on that issue, and none of the 'pubs are talking it.

11 posted on 11/12/2014 12:09:38 PM PST by grania
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To: Din Maker

Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life.


12 posted on 11/12/2014 12:13:44 PM PST by GreensKeeperWillie (Sancte Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis.)
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Like 0bama, Fauxahontas is a blank slate, a non-person. She doesn’t bring the publicly known baggage that makes Shrillery unelectable. Fauxahontas’ handlers can write any role they want her to play, and the media will follow the script.


13 posted on 11/12/2014 12:16:09 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Din Maker

For a couple years now, I’d been assuming Hillary would be not only nominated but elected in a walk.

But now.. the more I look at her, it becomes easier to think... “this is all you have, dems... she’s what you’re putting forward?”


14 posted on 11/12/2014 12:17:43 PM PST by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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Today there is a Ted Harvey chain-email making the rounds that Hillary! (TM) will announce next month.

This is a surprise! Did I miss the “Announcement of the Announcement”? Surely, there would have been an “Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement” or an “Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement of the Announcement”... but obviously, I missed those as well. Not keeping up on the news like I should have...


15 posted on 11/12/2014 12:19:57 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: GreensKeeperWillie

Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life.


Hitler is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life.


16 posted on 11/12/2014 12:20:09 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Like 0bama, Fauxahontas is a blank slate, a non-person. She doesn’t bring the publicly known baggage that makes Shrillery unelectable. Fauxahontas’ handlers can write any role they want her to play, and the media will follow the script.

Once upon a time, her plagiarism of a published recipe (claimed for a SEAFOOD recipe among the Cherokees!) would have been enough to ridicule her into oblivion.
17 posted on 11/12/2014 12:23:27 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: henkster

Every thing you stated is why I’m so concerned that the issue of the Federal Reserve and banking decisions favoring the elite is being left wide open. I had expected that Rand Paul would follow in his dad’s foot steps with that issue.


18 posted on 11/12/2014 12:29:22 PM PST by grania
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To: Din Maker

They forgot to mention Al Franken. He’s supposedly on their short list too.


19 posted on 11/12/2014 12:33:25 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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“Fauxahontas will be their next candidate.”

Yup. And Julian Castro is the VP . Take care of the women/Hispanic voters.

Guess Cruz/Ernst or Cruz/Haley wouldn’t compare.


20 posted on 11/12/2014 12:34:09 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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