IS CLINTON’S NOMINATION A FOREGONE CONCLUSION?
Nearly 225 Democratic fundraisers have each pledged to donate or raise $25,000 for “Ready For Hillary,” a super political action committee (a.k.a. Super PAC) that’s betting big on the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.
Another 600 donors have pledged to come up with $5,000 for the group – which is also raking in its share of small dollar contributions.
“The former secretary of state, who is months way from announcing a decision about a 2016 campaign, enjoys a massive head start in assembling a finance network compared with any other candidate, Democratic or Republican,” observed Philip Rucker and Matea Gold of The Washington Post . “The breadth and depth of support for her campaign-in-waiting could give serious pause to any Democrat weighing a primary challenge, such as Vice President (Joe) Biden or Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.”
In fact one prospective rival to Clinton – U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – got an especially chilly reception from a Democratic donor.
“If Elizabeth called me up and said, ‘I am thinking of running for president,’ I would say, ‘Elizabeth, are you out of your goddamn mind?’” the donor told The (Chicago) Sun-Times .
Through June 30, “Ready for Hillary” has raised $8.2 million – including $3 million from donors who contributed less than $100.
Clinton has consistently led her possible GOP rivals in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups. According to the latest national Quinnipiac University poll – released earlier this month – Clinton leads U.S. Sen. Rand Paul by a 49-40 percent margin, the same spread she enjoys over social conservative Mike Huckabee. Clinton leads scandal-scarred New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by a 47-38 percent spread, and enjoys a 48-41 percent lead over both U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
FITS has been reporting on Clinton’s 2016 aspirations – and the “Ready for Hillary” super PAC – since last March. Our readers were evenly divided on her prospective candidacy back then, with 50 percent saying the former First Lady/ U.S. Senator/ Secretary of State would never get their vote and 50 percent saying she “could win (their) vote.”
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Will she be called Mrs. President or Ms. President?
YOU BETCHA!
I just got paid $7500 working off my computer this month. And if you think that’s cool, my friend has twin toddlers and made over $8k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do,
??????.? PAYRAP????
Just how did you make this loot? Was it legal?
Since the site is called “payrap” I can only imagine she won it through freestyle hip hop competitions.
MR…..
I just have have to believe there will another ‘Great Awakening’ in this country before this nation will elect another American hating, radical terrorist loving (see Clinton tape from 9/10/2001) supporter of the muslim brotherhood, whose spiritual base is aborting as many children as possible and sanctioming the perversion of men marrying men and women marrying women while opening the border to millions of illegal immigrants that will bankrupt this country.
Hillary Clinton will be defeated. I have faith in America.
“I have faith in America”
You are full of shit.
What did I say that was false? What I figured. Nothing.
Kill, Kill !!!
Kill, Kill
I’m amazed she can raise enough money for a bottle of pop.
If not for Bill, Hillary would be nil.
“If not for Bill, Hillary would be nil.”
Uh-huh. No woman has any worth in and of herself – her worth is derived from her man.
Dumbass.
Is that really all you got from his comment? Is your argument so vacuous that you have to take such an obvious fact and turn it into a “War on Women” turd?
“Is that really all you got from his comment?”
LOL Yep – that is all I got as there was not anything else to get, dickhead.
” No woman has any worth in and of herself – her worth is derived from her man.”
Your words not mine.
After Hillary’s stint as Sec of State anyone voting for her would be a low information voter or kool-aid drinker, maybe even a “Dumbass”.
“Your words not mine.”
LOL Wait and see what happens – you bozo’s on here are ALWAYS wrong!
Breath wasted, the Faux News, Beck, Rush Kool-aid crowd will parrot those guys until they die, without ever understanding they are the low information voter they complain about. Note they never provide facts to back up their jibes. That is because they picked up a GOP taking point and repeated it.
They will deny this of course, but try to get them to be specific and they simply repeat another GOP talking point.
Ignore them and concentrate on this from a right wing site:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/
You bet there are low information voters and kool-aid drinkers, on both sides of the isle.
I was watching Morning Joe this morning and it was very interesting commentary about how dysfunctional the House, Senate and White House are these days.
“I’m amazed she can raise enough money for a bottle of pop.”
Here is what is hilarious – and priceless – is that the same ones who blabbered on that President Obama would never be elected and would certainly never be re-elected will be the same ones that will post crapola about Hillary Clinton – right through to the last day of her second term!!
Did you used to be a joke writer for Letterman?
Um, I believe Obama was able to finance his election through an e-mail he got about a long lost relative Prince in Kenya who left him $98,537,761,588.45 and all he had to do was wire them money to get the money transferred into his checking account.
“Did you used to be a joke writer for Letterman?”
I see a stuck a nerve, huh? LOL
I’ll be laughing at you through both of President Clinton’s terms!
The unbeatable pantsuit combination, Clinton/Warren ticket. Their slogan:
“America: Let’s finish the job”
My girl Hil-dog is gonna wreck 2016. If the GOP could get its stuff together and put out a candidate that isn’t a complete joke they could actually win, but we don’t have to worry about that! The GOP has so many wildcards in Congress nowadays that they can’t even whip their own chamber because the caucas is so divided! Mitt Romney got DESTROYED by Obama and the same will happen in 2016 if the GOP doesn’t learn its lesson and starts appealing to more than conservative whites.
The GOP is a joke and the best the Democrats can do is Hillary isn’t a joke?
This is a very cute comment and all but if an election happened today it would be a landslide unseen in American politics. She almost won the Democratic nomination in 2008 and she was the Secretary of State so have some respect for someone whose life is much more important to this country than ours. It is clear you have very little political prowess so there is no point in continuing this conversation.
When you finish crawling out of her ass make sure you clean up good.
Appointed leadership doesn’t mean shit, look at the appointments made just in this state or county? Clyburn’s daughter is determining what we can and cannot watch on television. Not one country respected Hillary as Sec. of State, nor do any respect John Kerry.
Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she wonderful?
“Is Clinton’s nomination a forgone conclusion?”
Yes
Chilly reception?
In fact one prospective rival to Clinton – U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – got an especially chilly reception from a Democratic donor.
“If Elizabeth called me up and said, ‘I am thinking of running for president,’ I would say, ‘Elizabeth, are you out of your goddamn mind?’” the donor told The (Chicago) Sun-Times .
I think you mean she might GET a chilly reception. But she says she ain’t running and she ain’t running.
We are getting close Sandi. Your new President will not be a Pub. Try to get along with Hillary, Actually, it’s in your choice of ” Taking care of the people ” get rid of the Pub, ” Kill em ” all deal., Good luck for you and your Nazi campaign !!!
SCRAPING THE BOTTOM WITH RODHAM 2016!!! “What difference does it make?”
We are sunk! Republicans don’t have a viable candidate. Neither do the Democrats. As the great philosopher, Pogo, once said “We have met the enemy and he is us.”