[Wash Times] Hillary can'Â’t win, and thatÂ’'s why she wonÂ’'t run. She may not know that yet herself, but a lot of Democrats want her because sheÂ’'s all theyÂ’'ve got. The Republicans are counting on her to run because they think sheÂ’'s the candidate they can beat in what looks from here like it could be a Republican year.
Simple reason why she's even entertaining the run (stay with me here, this is long):
The Clinton Foundation.
Bubba and Hildebeast derive their power from their political machine. First that was in Arkansas, then the White House, but now it's the Foundation. When Bill left office one reason Hilde ran for the Senate (other than her greasy, grasping, groping grab for power) was to ensure that she'd be in a position to do favors. When you do favors you get rewarded for doing favors. She sits in the Senate, builds the Foundation, sets up her 'exploratory committee', and she and Bill are very shortly rolling in the dough. Sweet, sweet gig.
But she has to run for Prez both given her own hard-core personality and the need to maximize the favor machine. So she does and gets whacked by the upstart. That's bad for business some, but she's still Senator and out there doing favors. Bill is running around doing favors. Chelsea is learning the ropes, receiving favors and beginning to do a few of her own. It's a family business. Hilde then becomes Secretary of State -- imagine the favors you can do in that job. She did them. Life was good.
Now she's 'retired'. Bill's ability to do favors lessens with every year he's out of office. So how to keep the favor machine rolling along? Of course Hilde plans to run for Prez again. That keeps the money flowing into the Foundation because people pay to hear what the next president might have to say, and more importantly, people pay big to make sure she remembers that they paid big. Nobody pays $200K to listen to a has-been speechify while clutching a walker. You gotta have current swat to get that kind of money. Keep the campaign 'exploratory' committee open and the right people line up.
You can predict the next step, because it was in the news recently. Chelsea. As in, Chelsea, late of NBC news and other cush gigs that were simply favors called in by Mummy, the Chelsea who is fresh from running the Foundation for a while, that Chelsea now is 'exploring' a run for Congress. It's in her blood and more important, it's good for the family enterprise. People on the inside get it -- the favors will continue to come in and go out even as Granny Witch fully retires.
That's why she's running. It's just business. |
Lady Macbeth has the resume that makes her plausible, which a lot of pundits and normal other people confuse with “inevitable.” Everybody recognizes her name. She doesn’'t hear the music but she recognizes the words and knows policy, and likes to talk about it. She’s a woman, and that should help with the ladies. (It might hurt, too).
She has had to carry a lot of BubbaÂ’'s baggage, and people usually pity the wronged wife. Nobody is comfortable as the object of pity, but political widows have often exploited it. Political wives, not so much. Hillary has successfully used it, probably because she has thrown the occasional lamp. People like people who fight back.
She has even carried some of Barack ObamaÂ’s baggage, and sheÂ’'ll have to work hard to avoid sharing the blame for the presidentÂ’s bad choices. The map of the world is speckled with them.
Against every positive, thereÂ’'s two or three negatives. Everyone has a list. Many women like her, some women worship her. Most men despise her. She reminds them of their ex-wives. Life is not fair. Men, a wise man said, are assumed to be competent until they prove otherwise; that was Mr. ObamaÂ’'s good fortune in 2008, when nobody looked at him closely. Women are thought to be incompetent until they prove otherwise, as many women in politics and business do every day. Getting credit is not easy. |
