There’s several issues that might pop up. First, there will be questions still left from the ambassador’s murder....which this administration simply will not answer. The fact that no one has spoken so far...indicates that Hillary might be playing some fair role in what happened. Second, there’s a huge deficit issue brewing by 2016...which no Democrat may want to handle...figure twice what we have today, and it’ll be a major mess to walk into. Third, and final...she will be fairly old and probably not have the energy to run a massive campaign.
Yes, I think all those things are in play. Plus Hillary has a very unattractive persona and image, and while that may not matter while her only job is supporting an important man, she’s not going to go far nationally with it. She got elected in NYC because they elect the likes of Jerrold Nadler (my rep back in the day - ugh - the slob used to stand by my subway stop at rush hour trying to shake hands and I always avoided him) as long as they’re raving liberals. But outside of NYC, I don’t think she’d go very far.
Obama was the first celebrity candidate, and henceforth, every candidate is going to have to be a celebrity. Bizarrely enough, he’s not good looking, is a terrible speaker, has a lousy track record and a dead-fish personality (with a very limp handshake, I’ve heard) - but the press picked him to promote as a celebrity mainly because of his color and his leftism. Obama was a faux celebrity much the way the Kardashians are, but regardless of that, it works.
The GOP is never going to get the press to give us a faux celebrity. So our next candidate has got to be a genuine celebrity, somebody who’s done something and is somebody, is attractive personally even if not physically, and who can’t be ignored.