I can sum up this NYT article on the subject in one sentence: Nobody credible has signed up to run against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, and it’s getting to be too late for anybody to try. That first part is particularly problematic for Democrats because they don’t have anybody really credible to run against her, either. The crop of governors and senior Senators that might have hoped to run have retired, died, or been defeated in re-election bids; a couple are even sweating looming indictments. It is a measure of how poor the field is that Martin O’Malley almost shines in it; I assume that he’ll end up being the designated primary sacrifice, largely because the man is… remarkably optimistic and impressed with his own talents.
All of which means that the presumptive candidate on the Democratic side will probably be spending as much of the next year as possible hiding. She will have absolutely no practical reason to get out more, and Hillary Clinton doesn’t particularly like people much, so why complicate matters by displaying her personality to a wider world. …Yeah, it’s an exquisitely boring strategy that she’s come up with. Your point?
It’s a mutual thing, really.
cred·i·ble
\ˈkre-də-bəl\
adjective
1 :offering reasonable grounds for being believed
2 :of sufficient capability to be militarily effective
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Hillary is simply not credible. As a candidate, or anything else.
She tells tales on a scale similar to Brian Williams. She’s been involved in more scandals than I can shake a stick at. She has an unpleasant personality and disposition that makes people *want* to question her veracity…
OK, maybe she’s a credible avatar for the democratic party.
Does nicely showcase why the Democrats plans go awry so often. Their top-down, totalitarian approach has a single point of failure far too often. It’s just Hillary!, yes. But life happens. One fall, one nasty disease (Like the one that took Jim Henson from us……), and Hillary! can’t run, even if she wants to. Then what?
then Biden and Warren duke it out until the Dems draft Jerry Brown, perhaps? fun fun fun to watch 🙂
Jerry Brown? He’d be perceived as too old, too flaky, and too Californian.
If Hillary doesn’t run or can’t run, I suspect the contest will be between Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin. And I have a hunch that rank-and-file Democrats would vote their “racist” (anti-faux-Cherokee) and sexist inclinations to give the nomination to Manchin.
Had a lib recently propose drafting Dayton. (D-MN)
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Just wow.
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Mew
Yeah, it’s kind of like forests. If you don’t allow the occasional fire, the Old trees choke off all new growth, and so when the Big fire happens, it takes out the whole forest. Couldn’t happen to nicer people……
O’Malley’s problem is that he proposed and had passed 27 different tax hikes…but then, in the People’s Republic of Maryland it’s not hard for a Democratic governor to do that. THe fact that he couldn’t get his LtGov elected to succeed him pretty much sums up the kind of governor he was…after all, when you tax sox and rain you’re pretty much tapped the pot out for everything you can…
“Yeah, it’s an exquisitely boring strategy that she’s come up with. Your point?”
See your post below about Jeb going into the lion’s den.
Yes, it’s good for Hillary’s base appeal to keep her mouth shut for the next year, and not piss anyone off. But it’s really bad for her General Election appeal, not to have any practice dealing with people.