Hillary is betting everything on 2016.
Hurrah.
She officially arrived on Sunday – but not in person.
She announced her decision with a modest tweet and a two-minute video featuring a diverse group of charming Democratic voters, a sentimental message about being a “defender of ordinary Americans” and very little time for herself.
Then, to prove she was still a Chicago girl at heart, the multimillionaire from Chappaqua sped out of New York City at 70 miles per hour on one of the most botched road trips of all time.
Led by Secret Service agents in a three-van convoy bound for Iowa, she met up with a few ordinary “people passing through” at a gas station in Altoona and stopped briefly at a Chipotle restaurant in Ohio.
Hillary, wearing huge sunglasses and with Huma Abedin paying the bill, was spotted standing in line at a popular Mexican restaurant.
When the media raided Chipotle a day later, they learned that Hillary and Huma had ripped off the kids behind the counter.
Being caught not tipping the working class is not a good PR move for a opulent ordinary woman who claims she will fight for the indigent ordinary people.
As Rush Limbaugh noted, this minor socioeconomic gaffe showed how out of touch Hillary was with the people she was counting on to vote for her and Bill again.
Which begs the most vital question: “Why ‘Hillary for President’?”
She is the default Democratic presidential candidate, “The Privileged One,” but she is a lightweight by any measure.
Quick. What does Hillary mean?
Have you ever had a deep thought or good idea about politics – foreign or domestic?
What has she done in her public life so far to make this country a better place? What is her grand vision for America?
And what are her major professional accomplishments? Minor.
In fact, she was given a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Big deal – liberal Democrat, carpetbagger wins in liberal New York. And then she makes herself imperceptible in the Senate for six years.
As secretary of state, her highlights include Benghazi and a series of setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia and China.
Her proudest accomplishment as Secretary of State was accumulating a record number of constant flyer miles.
In her Iowa debut this week, Hillary dodged tough questions from reporters and was careful to apply political generalities, platitudes and slogans.
She tried so strenuous to distract from President Obama that she almost sounded like my dad.
She promised to stimulate the economy by eliminating bad regulations and mentioned adding market reforms to what she sees as good parts of the Obamacare law.
Perhaps Ms. Authentic 2016 was trying to imitate Maggie Thatcher. (Trust me, I knew Maggie Thatcher, and Hillary is no Maggie Thatcher.)
Unfortunately for the country, Hillary can’t escape being Hillary. And if she says anything about the economy that makes sense, it’s pure coincidence.
Hillary is no match for Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, the first of a group of teenage, wise, and experienced conservative Republican presidential candidates who are not stuck in the 1990s.
The speeches delivered by Rubio and Paul were magnificent – full of vision and ideas for reform in Washington, as well as calls to reassert America’s prosperity at home and leadership abroad.
Meanwhile, Hillary is really running her election campaign on just one issue: she’s a woman and it’s time for America to have its first female president.
I think that over the next 19 months, millions of ordinary voters will understand that. Maybe the liberal media will, too.
