Hillary can’t wait forever to make up her mind on 2016
Clinton knows that she is currently freezing the field with the-door-remains-slightly-open statements like “I have no intention” to run for president. Having no intention to run is not even close to the same thing as ruling out the race. Words matter in politics and no one understands just how much better than Clinton.
She also knows that her ability to keep the race frozen in place has a shelf life and if she waits too long to decide she will lose a fair amount of the political goodwill she has built up in the party.
So, when does Clinton need to make a declarative pronouncement about her plans? It’s hard to pinpoint a particular date but it’s hard to imagine her being able to wait much beyond the 2014 midterm elections. At that point, the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries will be slightly more than a year(!) away, and the other men and women who want to run will be itchy to get the Clinton question answered. (For everyone not named Clinton, the sooner she makes up her mind, the better.)
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dont be hatin on seinfeld!
blatantblue on January 30, 2013 at 8:35 PM
2016: Brain-damaged, drunken traitors need not apply.
Pork-Chop on January 30, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Nah she can take her time. According to a ppp preview of polling on twitter results will show she is likely to win Texas and is currently ahead in Kentucky.
msmveritas on January 30, 2013 at 8:38 PM
So this will be like all of those people on our side insisting that Palin show her cards circa 2009-2012 so that we could all finally just “move on,” only with Democrats beating the sh!t out of each other instead?
LOL … *popcorn*
Take your time, Hillary!
NoLeftTurn on January 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM
Yes, actually, please wait forever….
cntrlfrk on January 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM
“I have
nointention” to run for president.“I have every intention” to run for president.
If I read one more sickening post tonight, I am going to hurl…
RavingLunatic on January 30, 2013 at 9:01 PM
Let me expand on that:
Hillary 2015: “I obvioulsy mispoke in early 2013. I meant to say ‘every intention’ not ‘no intention’.”
MSM: ‘Whew, we were assuming you mispoke, thanks for clearing that up.”
RavingLunatic on January 30, 2013 at 9:06 PM
MSM 2015: FIrst Woman, and a visually impaired woman at that to run for POTUS!”.
That she will be a senile old coot by then will not factor in at all.
RavingLunatic on January 30, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Cut her some slack…she’s suffering from yesterday’s hangover and drunk.
trs on January 30, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Wait till the midterms are over before you decide on the new American Idol. On both sides. Jeez, talk bout being impatient.
tommy71 on January 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM
Will her health hold up? I’d bet against it.
reddevil on January 30, 2013 at 10:14 PM