re: #16 jamesfirecat

The thing is Mitt did one term as a governor and that was it, Hillary has been a career politician since the 90s holding various different public offices,

She’s been elected to one office in all these years of public life.

Yes we can’t get overconfident and not show up to vote again come 2016, but it’s very silly to say Hillary is as week a candidate as Mitt Romney.

I never said she was as weak a candidate as Romney, just pointing out that there are some similarities. I don’t see her as some unbeatable juggernaut. She will be the one out there answering questions in the spotlight not her husband and she isn’t perfect.

Especially considering the differences between their SO, Mitt had a modern day Marie Antoinette and Hillary has a man who would have crushed W like a grape if he had been able to run in 2000.

Again, she’ll be the one on the ticket not Bill. I honestly don’t think Ann Romney had all that much to do with Mitt losing.

Also if on general Principle if Hillary Clinton can’t beat Rand Paul then I am done with having anything to do with American Politics besides voting, I just won’t have the spirit to bother arguing it anymore.

It seems like most Democrats believe that there isn’t a Republican candidate that can beat her but I’m not so sure.

She needs to find a way to motivate the Democratic coalition. Will the 18 - 30 year olds get out there for her the same way they did for Obama? I’m not convinced. My two oldest kids are of voting age now and they really have no memory of the Clinton years. Someone that will be 18 in 2016 was born in 1998.

If she starts distancing herself from Obama, will African-Americans get out there in force for her?

Where does she stand on immigration reform? I certainly have heard anything much from her on that subject or anything else recently. If she starts triangulating, will Hispanics get out there?

If the electorate in 2016 looks like a midterm electorate she loses.