Hillary Clinton Candidacy Not A Done Deal

by JASmius

Wow, even this one of my bandwagons is starting to attract jumper-oners:

There's a decent chance that Hillary Clinton will not run for president in 2016, according to columnist Jonathan V. Last, writing in the Weekly Standard.

"It's not at all clear that her candidacy is a foregone conclusion … For starters, what if she ran and lost? Losing a campaign for president can be hard on a person," Last says.

Yeah, especially a second time.  Would extremely advanced age, fatigue, twenty-year-old staleness, Benghazi, and stunning ugliness be a match for uncharted ambition and lust for power?

"If Hillary runs and gets beat by the Most Dangerous Republican in American History — and rest assured, whoever wins the GOP nomination will be so radical that he'll make Ted Cruz, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater look moderate — she'll be a two-time presidential loser.

I take it List is making sardonic reference to how Donks in and out of the press will mischaracterize this candidate, as no such real person exists.  OTOH, he didn't mention Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in that recitation.  Hmmm......

 "And she'll be blamed for putting her selfishness and dynastic longings ahead of the good of the nation.''

This, of course, assumes that she will win the 2016 Democrat nomination unopposed.  It also assumes that Barack Obama will voluntarily relinquish power and ride his girlie bike with the pink basket and little bell on it off into the sunset.  I don't think either of those assumptions are givens by a long shot.  Remember what I keep saying about Republicans being the "next in line" party and Democrats typically going with the dark horse.  I see no reason to expect that Mrs. Clinton would do any better two years from now than she did six years ago.  To the contrary, I think she'd do worse because she's already had her chance.  I don't think Dems would wait until after another Hillary! defeat to turn on her; they simply would, and will, not nominate her in the first place.  Libs don't strike me as people who can be "held hostage"; by and large, they're the hostage-takers.

Republicans better start figuring out not just that they have nothing to fear from a Hillary Clinton candidacy, but that a Hillary Clinton candidacy would be the best thing that could happen to them.  It isn't often that Donk presidential hopefuls come pre-framed and pre-defined.

Even if they don't have brain damage - right, Karl?