The Hillary controversy baloney

Presumptive automatic Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton has been keeping a very low profile in recent weeks - since the first of the year, at least - and the political rumor mill is that she is ducking answering tough questions about taking millions of dollars from foreign governments and donors to the Clinton Foundation, or about her private email server handling all her official email while she was secretary of state.

So the commentati are trying to figure out just who is behind all this bad news coming out rapid fire about Hillary. For sure reporters aren't taking credit for originating the stories. So who did?

The Elizabeth Warren camp is one answer, since Warren is the darling of the Marxist wing of the Democrat party (which is pretty much the whole party).

Here's my answer. The person behind all this bad news is coming out about Hillary Clinton is ... (drum roll, please) .. Hillary Clinton.

I wrote in 2011 that if she was to reach for the presidency again it would have to be in 2012.

2012 is, effectively, Hillary's last chance. In 2016 she'll turn 69 just before election day. Only Ronald Reagan has been elected at that age level; Hillary surely recalls that Bob Dole and John McCain, each with extensive government experience and both bona fide war heroes and only a little older, were rejected by the electorate. 

I was not the only pundit who predicted Hillary would run in 2012; a number of Democrat figures said so, too. Well, we were all wrong, obviously. But I stand by my original rationale that she will not run in 2016, for the same reasons I said then.

And she is leaking all these controversies to give herself cover when she declares her non-candidacy, with which the left-wing media are feverishly cooperating.

So what's her plan instead of elective politics? Same as it has always been: money. She has opened her coffers to foreign donations for one simple reason: she wants the money, the more the better.

Hillary will not run for president in 2016 and never intended to. And when she surveys the rubble and wreckage President Obama and she have wrought in his first term, worsened since then, she is glad to have millions of dollars to retire from elective politics and get on with the senior stateswoman act, which will have it's own financial rewards.