And like every other aspect of this most overrated ever of politicians, it's going to take a long, long time for the "conventional wisdom" to figure this out (via Newsmax Insider):
"There is little time to waste" for Hillary Clinton to raise the $2 billion she will need to run a competitive presidential campaign in 2016, according to political analyst and author Douglas Schoen.
Mr. Shoen, I have no doubt that Mrs. Clinton can raise $2 billion for her campaign, what with the law being no obstacle and her fundraising pool being global in flagrant contravention of that law. But two billion, five billion, ten billion, a hundred billion isn't going be enough to drag her fat ass across the November 1st, 2016 finish line.
"With the last major New York event now complete — a [March 4th] benefit featuring all three Clintons and singer/songwriter Carole King — the time to turn to presidential politics, and presidential politics alone, has come for the putative Democratic front-runner," Schoen observes in an article co-written by Jessica Tarlov and published in the Daily Beast.
Mr. Schoen, Hillary Clinton has been running for president for twenty-three years and counting. She has never NOT been running for president. And it does...not....matter because she is not, nor will she ever be, the "Democrat frontrunner," putative or otherwise.
The challenges Clinton faces have become "more substantial" with the disclosure that she apparently used her private email account exclusively while Secretary of State, Schoen, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, points out.
Her challenges have always been vastly more "substantial" than any of you have ever realized or been willing to. It's just that they've become so mountainous that they've finally burned through that stupendously willful and complacent collective ignorance. E-Pot Dome is simply the pebble at the head of the avalanche.
He opines that Hillary needs to offer "something different from what we've seen from President Obama these past six years.
Schoen....insists that Clinton can't run on the platform of the left wing of the Democratic Party and must "position herself as a convincing centrist for what will be a very competitive general election, making a clear break with the Obama administration's approach."
And let us not forget that Hillary Clinton was a high-ranking member of the Obama Regime, which makes "clearly breaking" with it functionally impossible. Maybe Bill could have pulled off such propaganda alchemy, but the Dragon? Not a chance.
To that end, Schoen urges Clinton to broaden her appeal by embracing several practical policies that show a clear break with Obama, including:
• Articulate a pro-growth agenda that creates jobs and provides competitive wages for young people
Scott Walker will already be doing that, no Democrat aping such an agenda can ever get nominated.
• Address income inequality through policies that emphasize economic mobility
Which you cannot have without a pro-growth agenda, which Scott Walker will already be touting and no Democrat aping such an agenda can ever get nominated in order to run on it.
• Push for debt and deficit reduction
i.e. Higher taxes and continued runaway deficits and debt. That a Democrat can get nominated to do, but not elected, even if so many other factors weren't working against her.
• Support big-bank regulation
That's already Elizabeth Warren's gimmick. Ditto the higher taxes and continued runaway deficits and debt. And both conflict with the "pro-growth" agenda you referred to above, Mr. Schoen. So for what do Democrats need Hillary Clinton?
• Reform ObamaCare
If you mean dismantling it, Scott Walker will already be running on that. If you mean single-payer, Elizabeth Warren will already be running on that. If you mean nibbling around the edges and rearranging the deck chairs on the Obamatanic, The One is already doing that. So, again, what need or place is there for the Empress?
• Support two-part immigration reform — secure the borders and then create a pathway for citizenship
No Democrat will ever support that, including Hillary. That is the road to permanent one-party Democrat rule, and Barack Obama has already illegally paved it, rendering "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation superfluous.
"Given the prospect of raising close to $2 billion for her campaign," the article concludes, "it shouldn't be surprising that the former secretary has changed direction again and decided she needs to announce her candidacy expeditiously, as early as next month, to blunt the threats and obstacles to her candidacy."
Dude, the only thing Hillary Clinton is capable of doing is raising boatloads of money. Politically she is a superfluity and a nullity.
Picture yourself in your kitchen, rummaging around to find something to eat for lunch. A deli sandwich and a nice, hot bowl of tomato soup sound appealing, and you remember that you had some tomato soup a while back and didn't finish it, so you look in your fridge for it. It takes a while, but you find the Tupperware container in the back on the second shelve and pull it out. That's when you discover that you didn't fully seal the lid (so that it "burped"). You remove the lid and are greeted by a gray-brown furry morass that, if you were a medical researcher, might win you the next Nobel Prize for discovering a new antibiotic "super-drug," but no longer resides in the "lunch" category. Obviously you had partaken of that soup a lot farther in the past than you thought.
But your heart is so set on tomato soup, THIS tomato soup, that you start examining the container, picturing ways you might be able to eat around the mold - maybe with a grapefruit spoon or a straw. And who knows, maybe you might have some unknown malady that the speculative anti-biotic might providentially cure upon ingestion.
Meanwhile, you have yet to look in the nearby cupboard, where sits a "family size" can of nice, fresh, untainted tomato soup with rice. Enough to stuff and sate your gut and palate, respectively, even without the deli sandwich. But the thought never occurs to you, so focused are you on the herculean effort to somehow derive a meal from that heap of decomposing spoilage while somehow keeping it down and yourself out of the emergency room.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is two billion dollars worth of rancid tomato soup, Mr. Schoen. No voting majority is ever going to "eat" her, especially when they have younger, "purer," and simply better alternatives available to them.
And they will.
With rice.
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