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 bet a lot democrats start doubting this choice. I don’t think it’s a given she’s their nominee.
Possibly. But I'm sure they'll do their best to find someone even worse. It is their nature.
Julian Castro.
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.
She's been running ever since Benghazi.
NYSAFE should doom Cuomo Il Figlio.
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.
Good point.
Man, Cuomo is a creepy creep.
“Is She really the best the Democrats can do?”
Fortunately, the answer is “yes”.
You’re right, he should be doomed. Thanks for the reminder.
Yes, she is the best they can do.
One more thing-
The Moreland Commission
We only know the tip of the iceberg.
“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
It goes on and on and on. He’s despicable. His whole demeanor is thuggish and criminal.
I aint gonna ask what I wanna ask!
They'll probably have to bring in the guys who maintain Lenin and Mao to top her up a little.....
My prediction: Chris Christie “officially” becomes a Democrat and gets the nomination.
My prediction: Chris Christie “officially” becomes a Democrat and gets the nomination.
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