"Positioning herself to the right of everyone else in the Democrat party with Presidential aspirations."
I believe that you have hit the nail squarely on the head with your analysis here.
The more I think of this myself, I believe it all the more. Note for the record that I see nothing conservative whatsoever in Hitlery's behavior -- and there won't be. She simply has to look like the moderate in a race consisting mostly of whackos. What's more: the media will jump on that bandwagon in a heartbeat. I still think the public will eventually see through this ploy, but it will work with rank-n-file Dems - and the union types.