There are three possibilities: (1) The Left doesn't want to have a chance to win in 2016; (2) The Left is counting on the GOP to screw up a wet dream of an opportunity in 2016 with its grotesquely overloaded field eliminating all conservative possibilities and nominating, in Jeb Bush, the only Republican Mrs. Clinton can defeat; (3) Elizabeth Warren has decided she'd be not much more electable in the general than Hillary is, apart from #2.
Faucahontas would be right about #3. But I have to say, #1 truly astonishes me:
An effort to draft Elizabeth Warren into the 2016 presidential race plans to close up shop next week, acknowledging that the Massachusetts senator will not — as she has repeatedly said — seek the Democratic nomination.
MoveOn.org and Democracy for America said Tuesday they plan to suspend their Run Warren Run campaign on June 8th. In their last act, they'll deliver a petition to Warren with more than 365,000 signatures urging her to run for president.
The groups said they had already influenced the economic debate in 2016 and want to focus their efforts on working with Warren on issues such as trade, including defeating the effort to give President Obama so-called "fast track" authority to complete the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
I guess the spectre of $2.5 billion trumps ideological purity AND borderline electability. I also guess that Senator Warren - whom you will recall was the Obama White House's designated successor at one time - shouldn't have so publicly pissed in The One's demidivine face over the aforementioned Trans-Pacific Partnership trading authority legislation. Which I would have understood if Barack Obama was, you know, like Hillary Clinton, an establishment phony not interested in the leftwingnut cause as much, or at all, compared to greenbacks, dollar signs, and money. Is that what the Left now thinks of their "messiah"? That BHO and HRC are now joined at the hip? If that's the case, then they're even more nucking futs than they were already.
Especially since that factor should have made them even more rabidly insistent that Fauxcahontas run, even if they had to kidnap her and hold a gun to her head. Then again, maybe this story was the spirit-crusher, either that even their goddess has clay feet after all, or that they're now going to have to endure months of Weekend At Bernie's jokes, with no payoff (precisely) nineteen months from today.
Because neither Bernie Sanders (too old, too white, too male) nor Martin O'Malley (too white, too male) nor Mrs. Clinton will energize the left wing of the Democratic Party the way Obama did against, and beyond, the Ugly Dutchess in 2008.
So, for the next year and a half, this is what the Donk base has to look forward to:
Being sent to the end of the line.....
Plummeting poll numbers (via Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt)....
CNN poll, March: 53% see Hillary Clinton favorably, 44% say unfavorably.
CNN poll, this morning: 46% see Hillary Clinton favorably, 50% say unfavorably.
Surely the Washington Post poll out this morning will have better numbers for her, right?
[Mrs.] Clinton’s favorability ratings are the lowest in a Post-ABC poll since April 2008, when she was running for president the first time. Today, 41% of Americans say she is honest and trustworthy, compared with 52% who say she is not — a 22-point swing in the past year.
[Mrs.] Clinton’s favorability rating has fallen steadily since she left the Obama administration in early 2013.
Kinda like God's glory always faded from Moses's face whenever he came down off of Mt. Sinai.
Today, 45% see her positively while 49% see her negatively. That compares with ratings of 49% and 46% two months ago. Just 24% have a strongly favorable impression of her — down six points in the past two months — while 39% have a strongly unfavorable impression, up four points.
I am serious! And don’t call me “Shirley”!
But hey, the more people see her, the more people will like her, right?
And "expectations management"....
It is emblematic of Hillary Clinton that she is, at the same time, an incumbent who has never held office and a functionally unchallenged front-runner who still has a measurable chance of losing the Democrat nomination.
And that's why I still think Elizabeth Warren will get into this race. Because I simply cannot believe that the Left is going to go the John-Kerry-over-Howard-Dean route ever again.
Call it my inability, in this instance, to not look a gift horse in the mouth.
UPDATE: Ooops, I left this howler out:
Hillary Clinton had trouble attracting high-powered women to a New York talk hosted by Silda Wall Spitzer two weeks before her campaign officially kicks off. Sources said that after ticket sales fizzled for an intimate, $2,700-per-person, “just for women” meeting on Monday, the event was thrown open to men at the 11th hour, and the deadline extended to buy tickets.
The “Conversation With Hillary Clinton” event at Midtown law firm Akin Gump was originally aiming to attract 125 women. An email invitation seen by Page Six said the event is “just for women.” But by Friday, “They’d only sold fifty tickets, so they threw it open to men,” a source said. “Ticket sales were supposed to close at 10 a.m. Sunday, but the hostesses were working the phones and pushed the deadline till Monday.” [emphasis added]
Hillary Clinton can't even attract leftwingnut feminists....in New York City.
As Hancock told the two convicts before he shoved one's head up the other one's ass.....
...."Are you [Democrats] sure you want to ride this train?"
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