Hillary #39;s Possible Democratic Challengers
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WASHINGTON (AP) - On any given day, Republicans call Hillary Rodham Clinton a deeply flawed future presidential candidate.
Or a formidable one.
Or, with the right amount of Republican-led scrutiny, one who might not run after all.
As the former secretary of state, first lady and New York senator prepares for a high-profile book tour in June, Republicans are using a variety of approaches to try to define Clinton and drive down the mostly positive approval ratings she built while in President Barack Obama's Cabinet.
At the same time, the GOP is building an anti-Clinton infrastructure that aims to undercut her appeal more than two years ahead of the presidential election.
"Ultimately our goal is to stop Hillary Clinton," said Garrett Marquis of the Stop Hillary PAC, which formed last year and has raised $500,000 and says it has 250,000 enlisted supporters.
"If we can do that by dissuading her from running for president in the first place, then we'll consider our effort a success," Marquis said. But if Clinton runs, Marquis said, the extra time will help "build a campaign to stop her."
Clinton's record at the State Department is likely to receive a public dissection when she begins promoting "Hard Choices," her memoir of her time as the nation's top diplomat.
In speeches, she has described it as a series of tough calls. The book is expected to discuss the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration's diplomacy with China, Iran and the Middle East, and the September 2012 attack that killed four Americans at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
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Pre-book tour, GOP tries to define Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is in a pickle. Shes a shoe-in for her partys presidential nomination because of President Obamas failures.
But those failures might keep her from getting the job. Her husbands law of politics is that elections are always about the future, but shes stuck in the past.
In 2008, Obama pandered to liberal hopes while Clinton appealed to their good sense. Obama promised miracles and magic. Clinton promised more homework.
Cynicism was Obamas real opponent, he explained. And he used Clinton as a stand-in for it.
She played her part, pointing out that the Civil Rights Act got through Congress because of LBJs hard work, not Martin Luther Kings speeches. She insisted that politics was toil, not performance art.
And, as weve learned from a president who so often thinks giving a speech is a substitute for solving a problem, she had the better argument.
One need only look at the reaction from Democrats to President Obamas handling of the VA scandal to see that even they would trade some inspirational claptrap for a bit more old-fashioned competence.
That attitude helps Clinton immensely. Burned by disappointment, many liberals want to vote with their heads, not their hearts, this time around.
And the Hillary Industrial Complex is ready to exploit that sentiment.
The HIC is the vast network of loyalists, retreads, activists, pols, hacks, fans (in and out of the press), Friends of Bill and Friends of Hillary who want to see a Clinton restoration. Theyre waiting for her to run like 19th century land speculators anticipating news that the railroad will go past their lots.
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