....and old, and stale, and uncharismatic, and a decade past her national expiration date, and.....
Not only is Hillary Clinton the front-runner for President, but the race isn't even close. Democrats think she's a lock to be their nominee. Wayne Allyn Root sets out to prove that she isn't a savior. In fact, she is radioactive.
Sorry, Wayne, but you are so far off base with this, you're closer to the hot dog stand than the pitcher's mound. See my lede above - Hillary Clinton not only has zero, zip, nada, zilcho, bupkis chance of ever becoming president, she has very little chance of even becoming the Democrat nominee in 2016 - and not just because Barack Obama is president-for-life.
It seems gapingly obvious to me, but I guess I'm going to have to keep explaining this for the next two years plus: the Democrat Party does not nominate presidential candidates the way the GOP does. With Republicans, it's like waiting for the teller at your neighborhood bank - a line. Whoever winds up the runner-up in this cycle gets his or her "turn" in the next. By such means did Eisenhower beget Nixon, and Nixon beget Ford, and Ford beget Reagan, and Reagan beget Bush41, and Bush41 beget Dole, and after Bush43's interruption he begat McCain, who beget Romney, which means, if he decides to run, Rick Santorum will be the Republican nominee in 2016 for an election that will probably never take place. And if it does, he'll be massacred.
The Democrat don't do it that way. They always go with the young, charismatic, demagogic unknown. That's their own cycle, though it's less frequent: Kennedy in 1960, Carter in 1976, Clinton in 1992, Obama in 2008. I don't know what numerological fetish they have about the number sixteen, but as the old saying goes, once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, thrice is a trend - which makes four times a certainty.
Yes, yes, I know, we'll only be halfway through that particular cycle. But we already know who the next "white knight" is: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, who, you'll recall, gave the keynote address at the 2012 Donk convention. And yes, yes, I know, his resume isn't ready yet - he'd need to become governor of Texas first, and that would be difficult without another mass amnesty - but Dear Leader didn't even bother going to his newly won senate office before he was off and running for president, and Castro already has a stronger presidential resume than O ever did.
Will the mayor of the home of the Alamo run? Depends on if he's a risk-taker or not. I'm convinced to this day that if Hillary had challenged George W. Bush in 2004, she would have won. But she wanted a sure thing, so she waited until 2008, passed her Rauch limit, and got submarined by a young, charismatic, demagogic unknown who didn't wait and went for it instead. And we all saw how that turned out., much to our eternal chagrin.
If Julian Castro runs in 2016, he will be the Democrat nominee, and most likely the next POTUS. But I think just about any Democrat who challenges Hillary! will beat her. Haven't we see how phony-baloney plastic-banana this woman's "inevitability" gimmick is? It's the ultimate "emperor wearing no clothes" dynamic; everybody can see that Hillary Clinton is political roadkill if they're willing to look, but it seems that I am one of the few, if not only, persons who can see the obvious through all that ersatz propaganda bedazzling.
Which is another way of saying that Wayne, I, and all of you should want the Empress to be the 2016 Democrat nominee. Nothing would maximize the chances for another GOP presidency and, among other things, getting rid of ObamaCare once and for all. And that, in turn, means that Wayne's idea of two and a half years of Republican ads flogging Benghazigate, "What difference does it make?!?", the missing six billion dollars, and whatever else would be the political equivalent of premature ejaculation at the first hand-hold.
First of all, and I hate to have to be the bearer of maddeningly frustrating news, but nobody outside the Tea Party cares about Benghazi. Benghazi was precisely the sort of thing that only becomes a major scandal with full-scale media promotion - day after day and night after night of page-one-above-the-fold headlines, network news lead stories, every talking head amplifying it for weeks and months. Instead, the media buried the story and has embargoed it ever since. So, outside the Tea Party, it never happened.
In addition, Benghazi took place a year and a half ago, so it's already ancient history in our present-day Polaroid-eque pop culture. How relevant would it be after four years? How sick of the flogging would LIVs and NIVs get after two years of it? And how easy would it be for the Left to "brand" that as the "rightwingnut obsession" successor to "Birtherism"? Far from pre-emptively discrediting Mrs. Clinton, I think Wayne's "branding" advice would not just rally the Left to her banner but would generate a great deal of sympathy for her from those same LIVs and NIVs, who, after all, have been well-trained to hate Republicans, conservatives, constitutionalists, TPers, and Christians, not necessarily in that order.
Besides, after nearly a quarter of a century on the national stage, is a hostile "re-branding" of Hillary Clinton even possible? She is what she is: old, stale, uncharismatic, insufferable, radically Marxist-Alinkyist....and a woman. And the latter is the sole plank on which her candidacy would rest in any case. "Let's make history again by electing America's first woman president!" Hell, she might even rip off the "Hope and change!" slogan.
In a nutshell, we want Hillary Clinton to be the 2016 nominee so that we can beat her like a drum. I don't think she will be the nominee, but the best way to ensure she is nominated, but also pulls off the most disastrous presidential upset in American political history is by following Wayne Allyn Root's advice.
Find that middle ground "sweet spot," dude, and we'll get Nurse Ratchet right where we want her.
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