I predicted the wheels would come off the Hillary Clinton for president campaign, just like in 2008 but I never envisioned it to be this early. Keeping an entire major political party underwraps before there is even a campaign has to be extremel difficult if not impossible.
Todays NYTimes article about infighting in Hillary’s camp between former Obama advisors and longtime Clinton loyalists already presages a train wreck.
Could an austere Biden campaign running as a third Obama team, complete with the commander in chief’s endorsement sneak around the formidable Clinton machine a la 2008? This would be a scene right out of the 300 film series. Perhaps the Vice President will be allied by a Warren insurgency nipping at the left flank. (She doesn’t publicly condemn the draft Warren movement…why?)
This early in the 2016 race Hillary is actually in a tight spot. She needs to lock up operatives, officials and contributors especially while they are throwing themselves at the Democratic icon mainly to prevent them from looking at any other prospective candidates. At the same time the coalition is so big and so thin, the seams are as fragile as…well as a 24 year old sweater.
Most times mothballs are not enough.