Oh, she thinks she's picking her own running mate, but we know how the Democrat nomination race is really going to turn out. And I don't think Fauxcahontas will have any problem at all with Mrs. Clinton's unwitting match-making:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is likely to choose Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Julián Castro or another Hispanic politician to be her running mate, former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros said in an interview that will air Sunday.
“What I am hearing in Washington, including from people in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is that the first person on their lists is Julián Castro, the … [Commissar] of Housing & Urban Development, who use[d] to be the Mayor of San Antonio,” he said in an interview with Univision’s Al Punto.
“They don’t have a second option, because he is the superior candidate considering his record, personality, demeanor and Latin heritage.” [emphases added]
Some think that "They don't have a second option" refers to the Democrats' thin, if not empty, "bench". That might be a small part of it, but I think it's a simple matter of them looking upon Commissar Castro the same way they were looking at Barack Obama in 2008 before the latter submarined the Empress: as the next Donk Minority Hope whose youth, ethnicity, and (alleged) charisma would hoist Hillary's fat ass across the finish line. Which might have worked in a cycle in which no Republican could have won, and the one that did get nominated (Senator John McCain) was the worst and weakest of a bad lot, but not 2016, when Clinton- AND Obama-fatigue will be running rampant, and the GOP will have an incalculably stronger standard-bearer in Governor Walker. Remember the axiom about voters always voting for the top of the ticket? That will once again be in place.
Castro's record is thin and awful, but that matters no more than Barack Obama's did eight years ago; it's all about checking off the "Hispanic" box and keeping the Democrats' MO of never again nominating a white male for president rolling ever "forward".
The interesting thing to watch is whether Castro will let himself be roped into going down in flames on a landslide-losing ticket, which will be the case with either Mrs. Clinton or Senator Warren at the top of it. If I were he, I'd politely decline and keep my powder dry for 2020 or 2024 and run for governor of Texas in 2018 after Obamnesty has had a chance to turn the Lone Star State at least purple. Why should he let "party elders" decide his political fate? The One didn't, after all.
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