Hillary is done politically. Her what does it matter comment doomed any future political ambitions. The left will help her ease out to pasture and try and construct some kind of legacy that ignores her failures at state.

Ellis on January 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM

I wish you were right, but the fact of the matter is if the woman wants to be President, the media will do everything in its power to make that happen. If 2008 and 2012 didn’t illustrate the depths they’re willing to sink to in order to promote the Democrat agenda, I don’t know what will.

The only things that could stop her are A)Joe Bite Me and/or other candidates forcing her to endure a brutally long primary(unlikely), B)a 2nd term performance by Obama as abysmal or worse than the 1st(highly likely), C)fatigue from the electorate after 8 years of one party in the White House(definitely possible), and D)Hillary’s haggard look and shrill voice reminding half the country why they used to hate her(also definitely possible).

Doughboy on January 26, 2013 at 9:49 AM

Agree on all points, I’ve been harping on this since November

She will run. Bill wants it badly

The media and establishment left started courting her on Nov 8 for God’s sake, they are drooling over the thought of her waltzing into the WH in 2016 for 8 more years of leftist rule

The sooner we focus on her (not Obama or anyone else) as the target of our attacks now, the better

She will crush all opposition and breeze through her primary

The only thing I think can stop her? Her health, to be blunt. Running a campaign is pretty rigorous, and she seems to be falling apart physically

It’s hers if she wants it

Ellis on January 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM

I wish. Instead of that being a heartlessly cruel remark, it is being held up as logical brilliance by a media that knows no shame. I wonder if they would have thought so if it had been their relative who died.

He takes some time at the end to criticize the clueless Hillary!!!, who inadvertently contradicted the Obysmal doctrine and contradicts herself with her careful parsing:

When not manufacturing history, tears, and indignation this week during her long-overdue testimony on the Benghazi massacre, outgoing secretary of state Hillary Clinton stunned careful listeners by repeatedly mentioning the “global jihad” against America. These were stark violations of Obama-administration strictures against any reference to Islam in discussions of the threat to the West.

They also marked quite a departure for Mrs. Clinton. She has played no small part in propagating the “Islamophobia” canard. She has championed the imposition of sharia blasphemy standards on speech that is protected by the First Amendment. And, with an assist from Senator John McCain, she has cowed 99 percent of Beltway Republicans into silence over the longstanding ties of her top adviser, Huma Abedin, to the Muslim Brotherhood and to an al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef, whose now-defunct “charity” (the Rabita Trust) was designated as a global terrorist organization under American law. Who knows: Maybe someday, after enough F-16 transfers and sharia constitutions, Charles Krauthammer will be moved to a fleeting mention of these irrefutable facts, making it socially acceptable for our heroes to come out from under their desks and talk about the national-security implications. I can dream, can’t I?

In the Clinton tradition, there was more calculated confusion than clarity in the secretary’s meandering testimony. Mrs. Clinton frets over the “jihadists” but insists that we must be able to “partner” with the region’s Islamists . . . like Morsi and the Brotherhood. Do you suppose she’s noticed that the Muslim Brotherhood demands the release of the Blind Sheikh, just like al-Qaeda does? That Morsi and Hamas (the Brotherhood’s Palestinian terror branch) publicly yearn for the destruction of Israel, just like al-Qaeda does? That the Brotherhood’s top priority is the imposition of sharia, the same imperative that drives al-Qaeda’s rampage?

Alas, this is not a series of strange coincidences. These are the major points that define a Muslim — violent or nonviolent — as an Islamist. When you “partner” with Islamists, you are abetting the global jihad, not opposing it. When you arm Islamists, you become a willing participant in your own undoing.

Hillary is done politically. Her what does it matter comment doomed any future political ambitions. The left will help her ease out to pasture and try and construct some kind of legacy that ignores her failures at state.

Ellis on January 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM

I wish you were right, but the fact of the matter is if the woman wants to be President, the media will do everything in its power to make that happen. If 2008 and 2012 didn’t illustrate the depths they’re willing to sink to in order to promote the Democrat agenda, I don’t know what will.

The only things that could stop her are A)Joe Bite Me and/or other candidates forcing her to endure a brutally long primary(unlikely), B)a 2nd term performance by Obama as abysmal or worse than the 1st(highly likely), C)fatigue from the electorate after 8 years of one party in the White House(definitely possible), and D)Hillary’s haggard look and shrill voice reminding half the country why they used to hate her(also definitely possible).

nobar on January 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM

I bet he dreams about it. I think even he knows that that is a bridge too far. I’m still trying to figure out how someone with his record got a second chance.

speculation about whether his onetime rival is privately his choice for a successor.

We live in a monarchy now, NYT?