Outside groups coalescing around Hillary Clinton

[DonViejo]

Source: AP

Outside groups coalescing around Hillary Clinton

KEN THOMAS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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FILE - This Sept. 10, 2013 file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking after receiving the Liberty Medal during a ceremony at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. As Hillary Rodham Clinton privately weighs a second White House run, pieces of the Democratic establishment are beginning to fall into place publicly to help a possible candidacy. Several super political action committees are collectively acting as a de facto campaign organization to ensure she's ready to compete aggressively if she decides to try again to become the first woman president. The honor is given annually to an individual who displays courage and conviction while striving to secure liberty for people worldwide. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)(Credit: AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Hillary Rodham Clinton weighs a second White House run, pieces of the Democratic establishment are beginning to fall into place to help a possible candidacy.

Several super political action committees are helping with early efforts to ensure Clinton is ready to compete aggressively if she decides to try again to become the first female president.

The super PAC American Bridge 21st Century recently launched Correct the Record, a project to defend the former secretary of state and other potential 2016 candidates against Republican critics.

Priorities USA Action, the super PAC that promoted President Barack Obama’s re-election, is considering a reconfiguration that could boost Clinton.

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[msongs]

1. health "insurance" companies, derivatives traders, the usual suspects lol nt

[blkmusclmachine]

13. I'm DONE with this rightist "Democratic" Party if they shove this woman on us, after Obama. ENOUGH!

[brooklynite]

21. So you'll be leaving then?

17 million Democrats supported Hillary in 2008, and another 17 million supported Obama, who a lot of progressives here seem to think was just as bad. Maybe this isn't the Party for you.

[roguevalley]

25. actually i am old enough to remember when it was the dem

Party and not this shit. She makes me tired looking at her. Bill will be there meddling. Sigh ...

[Cal33]

32. The presidential elections are 3 years away. How about making sure first that

Dems. win both the Senate and the House next year?

[roguevalley]

33. some of us can multi task

[underpants]

2. She is going to be President if she wants it

I get the energy about Elizabeth Warren and Bernie but that isn't going to happen.

President Clinton - it is her's if she wants it. And she wants it.

Just saying.

[William769]

3. ...

[cosmicone]

6. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders

are unelectable in a general election.

They would simply be feel good candidates but I'd rather see Hillary as president than Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or any one of the other repukes.

[DonViejo]

8. Me too. I get the energy about Sanders and my Senator, Elizabeth Warren but,

it's Hillary's if she wants it. At this point in time, I think, anyone else talking about running or being urged to run, is Vice Presidential material. Note, I said at this time., which means; barring some dramatic action to cause otherwise; this is Hillary's.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Just like last time!

[DonViejo]

15. Like I wrote, above, barring some dramatic event,

Hillary will be the nominee. The last time, Clinton was impacted by a dramatic event that is, today, addressed as Mr. President. I don't see anyone out there with that sort of impact, at this time

[underpants]

30. Obama-Plouffe-Axelrod caught all of the DC crowd flatfooted

Both the ps and the press. I remember when Hillary announced she had (something like) $36M - game over, get ready for the general election.....and then Obama announced that he had over $40M. Mouths were agape on TV. Where/ who did he get that money?!?!? Then they found out it was from tiny donations and big donors that the Clinton campaign thought were exclusive to them. Obama got his shoulders in front and lasted to the end of the primary race.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

20. Mittens wanted it, and couldn't buy it.

Want has nothing to do with it.

She has to earn it like anybody else. Is she runs I hope that she has a healthy set of challengers that will debate her on issues.

[underpants]

29. Yes but the Clinton fundraising and the Obama organization

Are almost unbeatable. Add in Hillary's name recognition, the army of women who will work on this campaign, and her experience make this almost impossible for the Repubs to come up with anyone viable.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

35. Wasn't she supposed to win last time?

[Earth_First]

4. Fall in, troops!

Even here at DemocraticUnderground, she's the candidate you are expected to support...

[William769]

5. We must be reading two different "DemocraticUnderground" websites.

[DonViejo]

9. Indeed!

[grantcart]

18. Or Democratic parties.

We have never done very well at 'falling in'.


And that's a good thing, even if it causes a certain degree of heartburn.

[cosmicone]

7. No one has told me that they expect me to support Hillary.

I am doing it of my own free will.

[Beacool]

19. The only thing I read around here is the 24/7 bashing that goes on.

One would have thought that she belonged to a different party.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Hillary "TPP" Clinton?

Yay!

She's inevitable! Just like last time!

[silvershadow]

17. Only this time, the right will try to see to it she is the candidate. They can hang

all sorts of crap around her neck, then fix the election. It will be claimed that people "rejected the Democratic ideas". No, thank you.

I'm currently advocating for Warren, despite the admonishments that "she is more useful where she is". Sanders is my first choice, so I'm reserving the right to switch camps, depending on how things shape up.

All of this is moot, however, as I have also noted the admonishments from some that any talk of anything other than 2014 amounts to being a troll.

There, I feel better.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Can't wait to see who the 3rd Party Candidate I'll be voting for in 2016 will be, in red red TX

[adirondacker]

14. I'm lost. Let me get my compass out...

Oh yeah, just a little to the right.

Nudge onward third way!

[brooklynite]

22. Hmm, dennis Kucinich isn't doing anything...

Maybe you could organize to get him drafted?

Of course that would require actual work.....

[adirondacker]

24. Just an FYI...

I've worked on campaigns, on the ground, on the phones, and in the polling stations for Democrats.

I'm too impoverished to do any organizing at present, and my life situation is Not pleasant at the moment (like many others). Though the tide may change...and I'll probably commit to a Sanders ticket.

Thanks for the advice though.

[Android3.14]

16. Really?

The money is already moving? I'd hoped they'd keep the suspense elevated until we could buy t-shirts.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

23. So which Wall Street firms have pushed the most money to Hillary's corner?

[hrmjustin]

26. I hope she wins.

[Sognefjord]

27. Stifles huge yawn.

Is going to hell in a handbasket always this predictable and agonizingly slow?

[davidpdx]

28. The short answer is yes

I'm not sure you want to hear the long answer.

[Sognefjord]

31. Not sure I have time but I think I can guess what it is.

[winter is coming]

34. Spending this much money on an undeclared candidate two years before the primaries begin

feels like a tacit admission that the voters won't want that candidate unless he/she has been heavily packaged and marketed.

[freshwest]

36. Wondering why they aren't putting in their millions on changing Congress and state houses.

That will be a big factor in who gets elected in 2016.

I'd vote for her over any GOPer, but I still can't see that she'll win over the same people Obama did.