Why Clinton supporters who are
thrilled to see her dominating again after her steely debate and
Benghazi turns should think again—really.
For her birthday, Hillary Clinton got some conventional wisdom.
In the wake of a dominating debate performance and equally impressive turn at the Benghazi hearings, the usual Washington suspects have decided being inevitable isn’t so bad after all. She became “the heroine of a captivating political drama,” says Reuters. Her 11-hour testimony was, says Vox, “her best campaign ad yet.” Once again, quoth The Fix at The Washington Post, “Republicans saved Hillary.” The Guardian saw a “triumphant October” and “political observers’ doubts fade.” “The Most Likely Next President Is Hillary Clinton,” declared Mark Halperin at Bloomberg News.
Now,
Halperin’s judgments on candidates’ political fortunes are fickle
enough that there could be a Hallmark card designed for those on their
receiving end. (It’s shelved next to the “So I heard Bill Kristol thinks you should run for president” line.) Just last March, based on Clinton’s lackluster response
to the revelation that she used a private email server to conduct some
State Department business, Halperin got his syntax in a bunch and huffed
that he had revised a yet earlier opinion: “I now think that she’s not
only not easily the most likely, I don’t think she’s anymore the most
likely.”
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Source: The Daily Beast
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