Posted on 11/29/2016 3:45:25 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
If you thought a devastating loss to Republican Donald Trump four weeks ago and to rival Barack Obama in 2008 was finally going to put former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out of the political game for good, think again.
According to veteran reporter Ron Fournier, someone who has been closely covering the Clintons for years, Hillary Clinton is keeping her options open for yet another presidential run in 2020.
Third times-a-charm? Not so much.
Clinton's biggest problem going into Election Day was a lack of enthusiasm and by the time results started rolling in, it showed. Her so-called "blue-firewall" of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania was bulldozed by Trump, who took all of them in addition to Ohio. The Obama coalition failed to show up to vote for her and if she chooses to run again in 2020, they'll stay home again. Not to mention Clinton barely made it out of the 2016 democrat primary against Bernie Sanders, whose supporters stayed home or supported third party candidates.
Clinton's strategy was to run against Trump, not on her own policies or platforms. That failed. She is a representation of the past, not just for Democrats but for the entire country. The scandal plagued cloud that has followed her since her early days on the Watergate investigation never dissipated and in fact has only gotten darker as she's gained more power. The majority doesn't want that kind of corruption around anymore.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. A third Clinton run would be insanity.
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William Jennings Bryan was nominated three times by the Democrats, and later they put his brother on the ticket as a VP candidate (also unsuccessfully).
So Hillary deserves to be nominated two more times, and after that Hugh Rodham will be the VP nominee to bring out all the Clinton loyalists.
There was someone in 2015 who predicted that Hillary would die of something before the end of 2016.
I really do hope he’s right.
She won’t run. It’s a media manufactured story because media can’t let go of Clinton’s. She is not well; she will be almost 74 and she will NEVER ever run again
Even if she were the picture of health in 2020, she won’t be able to bully the DNC into giving her the nomination like she did this time around. She’s had two shots at the presidency, and was on the losing end both times. There’s no way the Democrat Party will back her candidacy a third time. I’m thinking Elizabeth Warren or Cory Booker will be their nominee in 2020.
More like pushing up poison oak.
I agree. And she will be vegging out. She won’t have the energy to run in 2020. If she procured one of those portable thrones with pole carriers perhaps.
She could address her subjects in short 30 second spurts, followed by five minutes of rest.
She going to keep the meat wagon?
Pray America woke
Necrosis is just another “glass ceiling”!
True. :)
let us pray she runs again and sucks the oxygen out of the Dem Party
He can choose to be in charge of Canada or Cuba
Political figures have a shelf life, and Hillary's expiration date was about 15 years ago.
Never happen. Potential Dem candidates will not voluntarily clear the field for her again.
key word is ‘voluntarily’
All true. But her people may be behind the story. Once she says she'll never run again, she'll be forgotten like Mondale or Dukakis. So her people have to claim to she's keeping her options open or they lose their jobs.
With or without her pardon?
Its all about money to keep flowing into Clinton Crime Foundation.
probably the same person that predicted she’d be in jail for Mena, Whitewater and the death of Vince Foster
how could she possibly withstand campaigning in 4 years, she’s got health issues... ( and other issues )
If Hillary runs again and Kerry runs again the primary will look like a episode of The Walking Dead.
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