Hillary’s End? Not Likely Yet.

I’m not so sure about this one.  Ron Christie says it’s the beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton and her dreams of being president.

To be honest, I never thought in the first few days of December I would proffer that the Hillary Campaign for President is near the end. To wit, her national poll numbers have been plummeting since she seemed unable to answer a simple question whether she favored issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. She tried to be too cute on the issue by implying that she supported the issuance of such licenses before commenting that people were piling on and that she was being attacked by “the boys.”

While this might sound like a sound strategy in the comfort of campaign office suites, American voters see through such cynicism and posturing for pure political purposes. And now the Clinton strategy has backfired, and backfired badly.

As I say, I’m not quite sure about all that.  I do agree that these things damaging , at a time when her campaign could least afford it.  That having been said, let’s not overplay that particular hand.  let’s not stretch this one stumble into “Game Over”.

And, you know, there’s an awful lot of people out there, who are writing off Hillary Clinton’s chances in the selection.  But history counsels that a lot can happen in a year, of election cycle.  If I’m not much mistaken, Bill Clinton ran a third place campaign, in New Hampshire back in ’92.  Some of you will remember how that one came out.  Further, most of the pundits who have been making pronouncements about the primaries this time around , myself included, have been wildly inaccurate during other presidential campaigns.

Look, gang… Frontrunners do have a tendency to stumble. That comes as a product of being the target of everybody on the letter below you…  And, often than not, such frontrunners are their own worst enemy, as in Hillary’s case.  That’s simply the nature of the game.  But here’s where the campaign organization and the experience thereof comes into play.  There is nobody on the face of this planet who was better than playing the political game for its own sake than the Clintons and the people that surround them.  She has, in my read, everything she needs to attain the Democrat party nomination. most particularly she and her people are long on political experience.

Now, before you start thinking that I’m singing her praises, I am most certainly not.  That I think she knows how to play the political game, and should not be written off so easily, does not mean that I consider to be qualified as president of the united states.  Those are two vastly different things.

But frankly, I think we do ourselves  a disservice when we prematurely write the woman off as so many have done recently.  Aside from the credibility factor, look what happens when we buy into this lowered expectation of her performance.  Let’s say that she manages to pull out a reasonably good finish in Iowa and New Hampshire , say, a second place in both.  I will guarantee you that her people, experienced as they are, will be in front of cameras the following morning explaining how this miracle occurred due to her leadership.

My advice ? Sit back and wait. In the end, while it’s true that if Hugo Chavez can lose, Hillary Clinton can too, and for the same reason, we don’t have a solid indications that’s what’s happening yet.