A group of Hillary Clinton supporters is launching a campaign to draft her to run for president — the first major push from an outside group for her to run.
The group, “Ready for Hillary,” filed as a super-PAC with the Federal Election Commission late last week and plans to roll out a website in the coming weeks.
It has already been active online, with nearly 50,000 Twitter followers and almost 30,000 people following the group on Facebook.
The effort is being spearheaded by Allida Black and Judy Beck, two longtime Clinton supporters who were on Clinton’s Virginia Women’s Steering Committee in 2008 and helped her raise more than $100,000.
And so it begins.
By the way there was another item the other day that did not get much coverage but which seems to indicate that the President has already decided who he wants to succeed him.
This from Business Week:
Last week campaign disclosure reports revealed that Hillary Clinton had finally retired the debt from her 2008 presidential campaign—with a little help from the guy who beat her, Barack Obama. Clinton’s debt once totaled more than $20 million, although it had dwindled to about $250,000 by last year. That’s when a team of top Obama donors decided to surprise Clinton, and thank her for her loyal service, by raising enough money to pay off her bills. As secretary of state, she was forbidden from political fundraising.
According to a person involved in the effort who did not want to be named talking about internal fundraising strategy, the effort was launched last April by Steve Spinner, a California finance chairman for the Obama campaign; Jane Stetson, the former Democratic National Committee finance chairwoman; and Henry Munoz, the incoming DNC finance chairman. The challenge was tougher than it may appear, since it required a particular kind of donor. In order not to run afoul of campaign finance laws, the Obama team had to find people who had not already given Clinton the 2008 maximum primary donation of $2,300 or maxed out their total federal candidate donations during the 2012 cycle ($46,200). And of course, those people also had to be warmly disposed toward Clinton and still have plenty of free cash on hand.
This along with that unprecedented interview on Monday does not lave much doubt, at least in my opinion, that Hillary's 2016 campaign and the support of President Obama is essentially one of the worst kept secrets in Washington.
I know a lot of people, including a lot of you, are not happy with the idea of having another dynasty in the White House, and are equally concerned that Hillary is the candidate that the Republicans had been preparing to fight in 2008, so they have an arsenal already at hand.
But to that I would say that if we are going to have a dynasty in the White House I would MUCH prefer to have another Clinton in there than to have Jeb Bush suddenly jump in front of the line. And don't think for an instant that he is not considering it. He most definitely is.
As for the idea that the Republicans are ready for Hillary, I challenge that as well.
The Republicans thought they were ready for the 2008 Hillary Clinton, NOT the 2016 Hillary Clinton.
Right now Hillary enjoys an approval rating of 69% while back in 2008 she was weighed down with poll numbers in the low 40's.
Since that time she has demonstrated the kind of professionalism, integrity, and hard work that has gained her fans on both sides of the aisle not to mention a large number in the middle.
Democrats NEVER get to hold onto the White House more than two terms anymore. Republicans do it all the time, but Democrats have not done so since Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. That is just under sixty years ago!
As we all know President Obama is a chess player extraordinaire, so the probability that he is putting his pieces in place to hang onto the White House past 2016 is a no-brainer.
Everybody LOVES Joe Biden. I love Joe Biden. But Joe Biden is often almost a parody of Joe Biden sometimes, and in an election he will really just be another white guy running for the office who will elicit good support but not incredible support.
Right now there are millions of women who have ALREADY decided to vote for Hillary, even before she declares her intentions. By the time the actual primaries start Hillary will be so far ahead of the field of potential candidates that I doubt that very many of them will even bother show up. Which by the way includes Joe Biden in my opinion.
If you think about it there really IS no other candidate who has Hillary's credibility.
Experience in working with the Senate and Congress? Check!
Experience working with foreign dignitaries overseas? Duh!
Understanding of how to pay down the deficit and repair the economy? We do remember who her husband is right?
Ability to stand up to the Republicans? Do I need to play those Benghazi hearing tapes again?
Let's face it Hillary Clinton has it all, and her age will certainly NOT be a deterrent going forward.
If President Obama is serious about wanting the Democrats to hang onto the White House, and there can be no doubt that he is, and wants the next President to support and expand upon his polices, then there really is no better choice than Hillary Clinton.
I'm just saying.
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