Wake Up, Republicans: Hillary Clinton’s Machine Can Crush You

[brooklynite]

The Daily Beast:

Over the last two years I have engaged in countless discussions with Republican friends and colleagues about whether Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2016. What I discovered were two distinct schools of thought: Republicans who were hopeful that she would not run, and Republicans who were confident that she would not run.

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As someone who since early 2013 was confident that Clinton would run for president in 2016, I believed that the “Clinton deniers” among my fellow Republicans were engaging in the political equivalent of sticking their heads in the sand.

Now, because of five news items that have unfolded during this month of September, Republican deniers must face the fact that not only is Clinton running, but that she will be a formidable opponent against any of the current potential GOP candidates. This, despite her many flaws and heavy baggage.

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All the evidence suggests that Clinton is on her way to becoming the great social movement I warned and wrote about back in January 2013 and why I predicted her 2016 victory back in August 2013.

I post this -not- to suggest that "Hillary is inevitable" but to point out how Republicans are viewing the race.

[leftstreet]

1. She's so GOPLite, they should be happy

and I'm betting they really are

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. only to the Far Left Fringe....

To the vast majority of DEMOCRATS she is a Liberal Democrat just like they are...

[cascadiance]

4. Who supports CRAP like TPP and H-1B Visas that all "liberals"(?!?) support?

BS! The "Far left" is a majority of the American people that don't want the NINETYNINE percent's jobs taken away to fatten the wallets of the corporations and others that own Third Way and the Republicans' allegiances!

[msongs]

3. her "machine" couldnt crush another right of center politician named obama lol nt

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. In 2008, "No more Presidents named Bush or Clinton" was a popular meme

It's eight years later. The public is more fond of Bill Clinton now than then, and many would welcome his return in an "advisory" capacity.

[Man from Pickens]

8. not if he's attached to her

She is very specifically the problem and her being Bill's wife really doesn't enter into it - the talents he has, she has the opposite of that. When some people say they want "another Clinton" they mean another Bill Clinton-like person, not another person named Clinton.

I note that pretty much nobody says they want another Bush, so Jeb's f-ed too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Hillary's Mighty Machine carries a lot of baggage. See IWR vote for reference.

[rury]

9. If Hillary Clinton chooses to run in 2016

I will NOT vote for her in the primary.
Her "hardworking white Americans" that she referred to in 2008 can support her.
I'll vote for her if she's the Democratic nominee only because no potential Republican nominee is acceptable.
But I will not donate money, ring doorbells or make telephone calls on her behalf.

[Egnever]

7. Sadly Hillary proved in 2008 how inept her machine was

Hopefully this time around she will listen less to all of her old school hacks and more to the people who put Obama where he is who absolutely did know what they were doing. They ran circles around Hillary's "machine".