Topic: Politics & Elections
(1) Hillary will run in 2016. (2) Hillary will win in 2016. When it comes to conventional wisdom, that’s the gold standard. Maybe it’s even true. But to watch Hillary Clinton on the stump this year is to experience a twinge of doubt.
Talk about lackluster! Maybe it was just the overflow from Martha Coakley’s bad karma. I have to say, though, that when Hillary was in Massachusetts the other day to support Coakely’s doomed run for governor of the Bay State, she was less than impressive: “Don’t let anybody tell you, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” the Pants-Suited One droned. She went on to make a not-very-coherent point about the evils of “trickle-down economics”—not the most melodious note to strike in this era of trickle-down big government. (Remember those “millions of green jobs”?) Perhaps it was the presence on the stage of Senator Elizabeth Warren that galvanized Hillary’s inner populist. If so the senatorial scold did the 2016 heir presumptive no favor. Because if CW (1) turns out to be correct, Hillary’s maladroit quip is going to be featured in many a GOP attack ad.
Maybe Hillary Clinton is Ms. Inevitable of 2016. If so, it might be fun to watch this cosseted elitist, who receives $200,000 per humdrum speech, masquerade as a populist. She’d look really funny in bib overalls and a straw hat.
