One more harmonic tremor of horrible-truth-realization.
The good news for Dems is that they're getting there; the bad news is that it may already be too late:
Democrats are panicking because Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the White House in 2016 "is in trouble" — and the "troubles tend to be self-inflicted," says Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard.
Citing recent polls showing the former secretary of state only slightly ahead of various Republican rivals....
Irrelevant. Hypothetical "horse race" polls a year and a half out measure nothing but name recognition. And while everybody knows who Hillary Clinton is by this time (which is the core of her problem), a number of the top Republican contenders have become well known nationally as well.
"But the rationale for her bid for the presidency, the strategy of her campaign, and the tactics she’s adopted — all have failed to stop her steady decline" in the polls, he added. "The expectation of [Mrs.] Clinton’s glide into the White House in 2016 is gone."
Which is to say, an expectation that was never valid in the first place is finally beginning to wilt and fade under the onslaught of reality.
The issues range from Clinton choosing to use her personal email during her four years as the nation's top diplomat to questions surrounding contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Believe it or not, her multiplying scandals are largely irrelevant as well. As I say, everybody knows who the Clintons are, which means everybody knows that they are arrogant, imperious, greedy, money-grubbing crooks. Scandal is baked into the Clinton cake. Was decades ago. Mrs. Clinton's problem is that she completely lacks the skillset to either distract from her scandals (like Obama has) or hypnotize the public into believing they're a good thing (like her husband did). And the ideological direction she's having to take (lurching Left) and the disastrous economic record of the administration of which she is one of the leading faces make it unlikely in the extreme that she can convincingly and substantively promise a return to the "good ol' days" of the last Clinton detour, when "folks" were entertained by La Clinton Nostra's shenanigans because the economy was booming (thanks to the GOP Congress of the time that Mr. Bill was smart enough not to obstruct but instead milked of all credit for it).
And don't forget that, like Obama, Bill Clinton came to power by defeating an unpopular Republican president who was smeared with the blame for a ridiculously exaggerated recession ("Worst economy in fifty years!") that had actually ended two years before. His wife would be in the opposite, far more difficult circumstance.
There's something more significant, however, Barnes said: [Mrs/] Clinton lacks a "rationale" for seeking the presidency.
Yes, that's true, Mr. Barnes - but then, it always was. There has never been a rationale for electing Hillary Clinton president besides her vagina, as "pay-back" for putting up with decades of Sick Willie's wayward wick-dipping, and because she wants it, period. It's that stupendous sense of personal entitlement writ large. It's the GOP's "next in line/it's his 'turn'" dynamic expanding like the universe's mythical "dark energy".
And Democrats don't do that dynamic. Which is why I've been saying ever since she departed Foggy Bottom that Her Nib will not, nor will she ever be, the Democrat presidential nominee. Because the Democrats want to win. And that's going to be difficult enough for any Donk standard-bearer in 2016, much less somebody so supremely ill-equipped for the task.
But, evidently, a quarter-century of brainwashing has now trapped too many Democrats into a cul-de--sac where, due to preempted time and money above all, they are pretty much stuck with her.
And now it's slowly dawning on them that she's a landslide defeat just waiting to happen.
No wonder Dems are panicking.
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