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Rethinking Hillary 2016: Is She really the best the Democrats can do?
National Review ^ | 11/8/2014 | George Will

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; hillary; potus
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet a lot democrats start doubting this choice. I don’t think it’s a given she’s their nominee.


21 posted on 11/08/2014 7:07:48 PM PST by MNDude
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To: SeekAndFind
Is She really the best worst the Democrats can do?

Possibly. But I'm sure they'll do their best to find someone even worse. It is their nature.

22 posted on 11/08/2014 7:09:29 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: ChicagahAl

Julian Castro.


23 posted on 11/08/2014 7:13:29 PM PST by Argus
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To: SeekAndFind
The demoncraps had real good luck with a good-looking, well-spoken unknown like Obama. ("Unknown" means they have a better chance at fooling the peoples.)

So I have a feeling Hillary may have to contend with a Julio Castro or his twin brother.

But, by that time rolls around I think the peoples will have had their fill with the demons.

24 posted on 11/08/2014 7:18:32 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: clintonh8r
She won’t run.

She's been running ever since Benghazi.

25 posted on 11/08/2014 7:25:11 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: laplata

NYSAFE should doom Cuomo Il Figlio.


26 posted on 11/08/2014 7:54:13 PM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: ChicagahAl

True, it’s not like they have a deep bench of talent in that party. Hillary isn’t much to begin with as a presidential candidate but after her it gets even worse. You’re left with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Cuomo, Martin O’Malley, Deval Patrick, and maybe Cory Booker as the alternatives to Hillary. That’s slim pickings and all hardcore libs to boot.


27 posted on 11/08/2014 8:02:31 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: gasport

Good point.

Man, Cuomo is a creepy creep.


28 posted on 11/08/2014 8:04:27 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Is She really the best the Democrats can do?”

Fortunately, the answer is “yes”.


29 posted on 11/08/2014 8:06:25 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: laplata

Let’s not forget his role in the housing bubble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314


30 posted on 11/08/2014 8:13:11 PM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: gasport

You’re right, he should be doomed. Thanks for the reminder.


31 posted on 11/08/2014 8:17:05 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, she is the best they can do.


32 posted on 11/08/2014 8:22:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: laplata

One more thing-

The Moreland Commission


33 posted on 11/08/2014 8:23:26 PM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: gasport

We only know the tip of the iceberg.


34 posted on 11/08/2014 8:26:48 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

“Andrew Cuomo hires criminal lawyer to represent governor’s office as scandal over Moreland anti-corruption commission grows: sources”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/preet-bharara-threatens-cuomo-new-probe-article-1.1887193


35 posted on 11/08/2014 8:28:57 PM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: gasport

It goes on and on and on. He’s despicable. His whole demeanor is thuggish and criminal.


36 posted on 11/08/2014 8:30:54 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: WKB

I aint gonna ask what I wanna ask!


37 posted on 11/08/2014 9:03:45 PM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: SeekAndFind
What's Hillary gonna look like in '16 after a couple of years of hard campaigning?? (No....no pix please!!)

They'll probably have to bring in the guys who maintain Lenin and Mao to top her up a little.....

38 posted on 11/08/2014 9:20:43 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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My prediction: Chris Christie “officially” becomes a Democrat and gets the nomination.


39 posted on 11/08/2014 9:36:26 PM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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My prediction: Chris Christie “officially” becomes a Democrat and gets the nomination.


40 posted on 11/08/2014 9:38:00 PM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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