Inside Hillary Clinton’s 2016 plan

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Not only is she running, but we have a very good idea of what it will look like.

Hillary Clinton is in the final stages of planning a presidential campaign that is likely to launch in early April, and has made decisions on most top posts, according to numerous Democrats in close contact with the Clintons and their aides.

Campaign advisers say the likelihood of a campaign, long at 98 percent (she never really hesitated, according to one person close to her), went to 100 percent right after Christmas, when Clinton approved a preliminary budget and several key hires.

Most of the top slots have been decided, with one notable exception: communications director, a job that is now the subject of intense lobbying and jockeying by some of the biggest names in Democratic politics. One top contender is White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, who is close to likely campaign chairman John Podesta.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/hillary-clinton-2016-elections-114586.html

[merrily]

1. Politico states the painfully obvious.

[Autumn]

2. So was "I haven't decided yet" a lie? If one person close to her says she "never really hesitated"

it sounds like to me she decided in 2008.

[BlueCaliDem]

26. PUBLICLY, she hadn't decided since getting a campaign together is harder than we understand.

But privately, I can't believe she hesitated...much.

The good news for long-suffering DUers is, that starting April this year when she formally announces her candidacy, the irrational criticizing of her must stop - according to Democratic ToS.

Then we can finally focus on how to improve her campaign strategy, how to donate, how to analyze and come together to lobby her campaign in order to have them correct certain things we believe would be better for our country...you know? The positive stuff that will help get a Democrat elected as our next president.

[Autumn]

27. Maybe harder than YOU understand.

But some of us? We know what getting a campaign together entails. I just don't see how criticizing a corporate centrist dem is irrational But that point will come, not as soon as you want. However it's easy to stay within the TOS when election season starts. If you don't support the candidate, you just don't talk about her so your thinly veiled warning is a waste of time.

By the way, she can announce her candidacy in April but it's still permissible to criticize her after she announces.

[BlueCaliDem]

31. And you, too - unless you've run for president that no one here knows about?

Running for president is different than running for Mayor. I thought you'd at least be politically savvy enough to know that much.

However it's easy to stay within the TOS when election season starts. If you don't support the candidate, you just don't talk about her

Exactly. Same difference, much to our glee. DUers don't enjoy tearing down our best chances of winning the White House and the Senate. But ten to one you and your cohorts will try anyhow. I will be enjoying that time. Count on it.

so your thinly veiled warning is a waste of time.

Not a warning, thinly veiled or otherwise. Contrary to your conviction, not everyone is out to get you. Scout's honor.

By the way, she can announce her candidacy in April but it's still permissible to criticize her after she announces.

But no longer in your oh, so endearing "style", Autumn, and that must irk you.

[ColesCountyDem]

3. I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

[Android3.14]

4. OFFS

Everyone with two brain cells to rub knows her campaign will look nothing like her policies. They'll hide her corporatist and militant slavishness and try to convince us that DINO and Clinton never appear in the same sentence.

Whatever.

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Brace yourself for phony testimonials from former Hillary skeptics who've been "converted."

I anticipate an awesome astroturf campaign along those lines.

[peacebird]

9. And DU will have the hillbots out in force attacking anyone who does not fall in lockstep

Just like last time. And just like last time the inevitability cake walk will prove elusive.

[winter is coming]

11. They do her more harm than good. n/t

[2banon]

6. stunning omission wrt any strategy necessitated by sex traffic revelations

which will predictably go wild just as soon as the campaigns are well underway.

(Did i miss any mention of this in Politico's story?)

It's as if there's some sort of agreement to completely ignore the realities of the backlash for her campaign caused by this matter.

[bigworld]

7. Wonder what Howard Dean got out of his op-ed last month?

[brooklynite]

8. Wonder what Elizabeth Warren got out of her letter encouraging Hillary to run?

They both got a popular, experienced mainstream Democrat who'll be competitive against every Republican likely to be nominated.

[Android3.14]

10. "mainstream Democrat"?

OFFS

[freshwest]

16. Oh, Warren, Sanders and Dean will end up under the bus sooner or later here.

brooklynite,

Had a talk with some women tonight. They are not buying the Segretti smears of Clinton as if it's of any importance to HRC.

The idea that HRC cannot stand on her own without Bill telling her how to be POTUS is really stupid. The assumption that electing Hillary is electing Bill is something they see a major insult.

The continued attacks only make them madder, as they see it as an attack on them, too. Those who go after her now, have done zilch for women.

It's misogynst and the women of America aren't falling for it. The more insults to her and attempts to link her to things Bill did, are going to backfire on those who think they can talk down to women.

They only appeal to GOP and the their ilk in their minds. I'm looking forward to actually hearing what she has to say, not what others say about her.

We'll be learning more than I have from links on her 2016 positions. Which are liberal. Still, as I've said before, she wasn't my choice in 2008.

IMO, she came off badly next to Obama. But when he won, she didn't give him half-hearted support, but travelled to get people to vote for him.

Many who don't like Obama, don't like her. She is planning to carry on his agenda on things that matter most to Americans. Not that Libertarians and the GOP want any of those things.

[pocoloco]

12. The plan is to

assure a repug Pres!!

[brooklynite]

13. Cleary, just what Howard Dean and Elizabeth Warren want?

[billhicks76]

14. Yuck...She's A Liar And A Fake

We would be huge fools to nominate her. We can thank her husband and her for moving the center to the right which forced conservatives on the right to move to the far right to differentiate themselves. Thanks for nothing Hillary. She should be begging for forgiveness for the deaths of 4500 American soldiers in Iraq and a million Iraqi deaths. How can she sleep at night?

[KingCharlemagne]

18. She's a capitalist, doing what capitalists do. Capitalists have no problem

sleeping at night with the deaths of 4500 American soldiers and the deaths of a million Iraqis on their conscience. Hilary is no liar nor fake . . . she's a capitalist.

Bernie Sanders is NOT a Socialist either, despite how he may label himself. He too is a capitalist (albeit a 'Social Democrat'). So the question for Dems in 2016 will be which capitalist to run against the Republican fascist, in order to stave off the fascists' consolidation of a one-party state.

That's the stakes in 2016 as I see them right now.

[Ramses]

15. Here is a picture of Hillary with her best bud, Henry Kissinger, the Republican War Criminal

[brooklynite]

17. Here's a picture of Hillary with her best bud, Elizabeth Warren

Last edited Tue Jan 27, 2015, 11:41 AM - Edit history (1)

See how that works?

"All all of the women — Democratic women I should say — of the Senate urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does. Hillary is terrific," Warren said during an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," noting that she was one of several senators to sign a letter urging Clinton to run in 2016.

[Ramses]

19. Good Picture

I wouldnt vote for Warren either. She's been a Republican most of her political life.


Peas in a pod.

I dont vote for Republicans period.

I would vote for Sanders. If he too at any point appeases those republican criminals, I will OCCUPY

[Adrahil]

21. Good luck with your rainbow drippings and unicorn farts! n/t

[Ramses]

22. You forgot my magic wand

and my hippie union pony.

Got any good leftist bashing jokes while your at it?

[Adrahil]

23. It has nothing to do with leftism, and a lot to do...

... With completely unrealistic expectations.

But good luck, and I mean that, because we need voices of conscience in the primaries. But we need to do what we can in the generals, even if you think the choice is about choosing the lesser of two evils.

[Ramses]

24. I dont vote for republicans

or right wing shit. Period.

Voice whatever you want. I know I stand with the 99% and you do not. Im glad your honest and Im much rather have the 99% face evil head on, instead of getting stabbed in the back.

Carry on.

[brooklynite]

25. The problem is that the 99% don't stand with you

...and a fair number of them will be happy to vote for a Republican if they think the Democrat is too left-wing (see: McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis)

[The Stranger]

28. That sure sounds like the thinking of that idiot round of Democrats massacred in November.

They kept trying to get away from Obama -- meanwhile, they kept getting away from reality. It was beyond bizarre.

They deserved everything they got, unfortunately, what we got was massive Republican majorities.

They actually bought into the Republican lies. I mean, how in the fuck does something like that happen?

What kind of absolutely vacuous imbecile do you have to be to run for office and believe the lies of the other side?

[billhicks76]

30. Disgusting

She is as bad as him now. He was happy 911 happened and even happier Bush picked him to cover up heading the 911 Commission...good thing a few Dems left with some balls stood up and said no!

[candelista]

20. Hillary will be the next President.

It's in the Constitution.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. given her age, and the exhaustion she clearly displayed at the end of SecState,

I question whether she learned anything from her previous run. Will she run the same "I am entitled to the presidency" campaign that served her so well then? Will she have enough energy to compete and run as hard as it takes?

Given the hatred that many GOPers have for her, I also am curious who her VP will be. I suspect that the crazies will make as many threats against her as they do against Obama.