This explains why Hillary Clinton is so far ahead in the Democratic polls. Two of her potential 2016 challengers — Joe ‘’The Joker” Biden and Cory ‘’The Mayor Who Drove Newark Into Bankruptcy’’ Booker — are virtually unelectable; and electable candidates like Elizabeth Warren dare not exhibit any presidential ambitions without fear of reprisals from the Clintons.
So Hillary is not being tested at all. She will win the 2016 nomination by coronation rather than election, and then her Democratic subjects will discover they don’t like their new queen very much, for the same reason most Americans don’t like queens or any other unelected monarchs ruling over them — George III, for example.
Then the untested Queen Hillary will have to face a Republican challenger who will have been nominated through the Democratic process because of his or her relatively superior merits, energy, and vote-getting ability.
Is this what the Democrats want? Probably not, but what can they do about it? Start a Draft Wesley Clark movement? Get behind Bernie Sanders, whose Socialist ideology most Democrats share?
Remember Hillary was a lock until Jan 2008 when they rolled out Caliph Baraq.
Keep your eyes on Axlerod. Until/unless he commits to the Clinton Crime Family, all bets are off.