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The trove of personal papers in which Hillary Clintons late best friend documented their conversations on everything from Monica Lewinsky to the media lit up cable news and Twitter. It provided an unusually stark and intimate look at the former first lady through admiring eyes but also served as a reminder that the currently popular Clinton was once one of the most polarizing figures in the nation, someone who could galvanize Republican donors and grassroots almost instantly.

But that was then. And in an era when political controversies tend to flame out in the blink of a news cycle, its unclear whether the provocative papers about Hillary Clintons musings and doings from decades ago will matter to voters if she runs in 2016.

Political reporters love to pore over these sorts of things but they have little to no impact on candidates that are already well defined, said Ben LaBolt, a former Barack Obama White House and campaign spokesman. Its much harder to redefine a candidate that is already well known. That comes with advantages and disadvantages its also harder to win new supporters over.

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Clintons advisers declined to respond to emails for this story, and they have yet to comment publicly about the archived papers of Diane Blair, who died in 2000 and has been called the sister Clinton wished shed had. The conservative-leaning Washington Free Beacon reported on the documents in a buzzy story published Sunday night, describing them as correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos, and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium.

Blairs husband donated the documents to the University of Arkansas, and some were unsealed in 2010.

David Axelrod, a longtime Obama adviser, agreed that such blasts from the past will have little effect.

This strikes me as warmed over seconds from Drudges table that already were baked in the cake, he said. I dont think it will have any bearing.

The documents landed at a time when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whos made no secret of his interest in a 2016 presidential run of his own, has invoked Bill Clintons sexual past in recent weeks, describing the former president as a sexual predator. Paul clearly relished his role as the instigator of a conversation aimed at reminding voters of the Clinton White House-era dramas.

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Hillary Clinton's blast from the past