Posted on 11/08/2014 6:24:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Now that two of the last three Democratic presidencies have been emphatically judged to have been failures, the world’s oldest political party — the primary architect of this nation’s administrative state — has some thinking to do. The accumulating evidence that the Democratic party is an exhausted volcano includes its fixation with stale ideas, such as the supreme importance of a 23rd increase in the minimum wage. Can this party be so blinkered by the modest success of its third most recent presidency, Bill Clinton’s, that it will sleepwalk into the next election behind Hillary Clinton?
In 2016, she will have won just two elections in her 69 years, the last one ten years previously. Ronald Reagan went ten years from his second election to his presidential victory at age 69, but do Democrats want to wager their most precious possession, the presidential nomination, on the proposition that Clinton has political talents akin to Reagan’s?
In October, Clinton was campaigning, with characteristic futility, for Martha Coakley, the losing candidate for Massachusetts governor, when she said: “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.” Watch her on YouTube. When saying this, she glances down, not at a text but at notes, and proceeds with the hesitancy of someone gathering her thoughts. She is not reading a speechwriter’s blunder. When she said those 13 words she actually was thinking.
You may be wondering, to use eight other Clinton words that will reverberate for a long time: “What difference at this point does it make?” This difference: Although she says her 13 words “short-handed” her thinking, what weird thinking can they be shorthand for?
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I was in Jackson Mississippi today and saw a Prius with a Hilary2016 and a “I Love Obamacare” sticker on the back bumper.
The ‘Rats should nominate Chris Christie.
No need to describe the driver. I’ll guess that they turned right from the left turn lane?
Reagan was a unique specimen Hillary hardly has the vitality and god loving strength for a rigorous campaign
Were McCain and Romney the best the Republicans could do?
No.
The best the Dems can do is Go to Hell.
They’ll offer
Pelosi
Or
Feinstein
Or
Waxman
~~~Were McCain and Romney the best the Republicans could do? ~~~
Good answer.
Who else have they got?
This “Hillary’s gonna run in 2016” thing became funny to me about a year ago. It still delivers.
I don’t believe she will and have not since she took that fall. But if she does, she merely proves she’s delusional.
Maybe that’s why it just gets funnier and funnier. :-)
RE: They’ll offer
Pelosi
Or
Feinstein
Or
Waxman
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You’re forgetting two MOST POSSIBLE people other than Hillary:
Lizzy Warren
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo couldn’t satisfy his wife.
Andrew Cuomo is my bet.
Or Mitt Romney.
I think even the dems are sick to death of family dynasties....
But, the dems have a very serious problem.... A very weak bench of up and coming potential candidates.....
I cannot think of one nationally known dem....under 50...or any dem not carrying some serious corruption baggage....
It’s their system of promoting by seniority and loyalty not competence ...
Hillary may be the defacto nominee and millions of dems, especially blacks will go ....yawn...
Sadly, yes, she probably is the most centrist person in the DemonRat party.
Fauxahontas
on what issue is she “centrist”?
Her healthcare idea was even worse than ObamaCare
She won’t run.
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