Hillary 2016

It's hers for the taking . . . on a silver platter, if she wants it.   Hillary Clinton is better positioned to be swept into office as #45 than anyone in my memory.   She has proven her capabilities as a Secretary of State.  

Here's how it was put by one of the candidates who ran for the 2012 GOP nomination, and lost:

"The Republican party is incapable of competing at that level.  First of all, she's very formidable as a person.  She's a very competent person. She's married to the most popular Democrat in the country; they both think [it] would be good for her to be president. It makes it virtually impossible to stop her for the nomination."

He adds that she would also have the support of President Obama, who will still be a relatively popular president.

"Trying to win that [for the GOP] will be truly the Super Bowl."

I agree with this assessment.  Add to it that, by then, ObamaCare will have become a success, maybe the war in Afghanistan will have wound down (at least our involvement), the economy will be in solid recovery -- and it should favor a Democrat anyway.

The only thing that troubles me is that those quotes are from Newt Gingrich.  And his predictions are almost 100% unreliable.   He's always wrong -- by a mile.   Remember his saying Mitt Romney would win in a landslide?

Still . . . a poll shows that 57% say they would support her -- and she's not even running.  With that, and my own opinion, we can forget Newt.

Ralph