Don't get too excited, like I kinda sorta did when I first saw someone reference it on Facebook. This does not in any way appear to mean Hillary's reconsidering running. In fact, in classic Hillary fashion, they're announcing that this doesn't seem to be the right time to manipulate events in her favor, and they're quite happy to shamelessly go ahead and say so:
Hillary Clinton, after much debate within her inner circle, appears to have put off formally entering the 2016 presidential race until the spring of 2015. "Hillary Rodham Clinton is considering the nitty-gritty details of how and when to organize a presidential campaign amid signs that she will postpone making her shadow campaign official until later in 2015 than expected, according to advisers and Democratic strategists," wrote WaPo's Anne Gearan and Matea Gold this week. That jibes with plenty of other reporting on the matter and seems as close to a consensus opinion as you will get when it comes to the remarkably opaque decision-making process of the former Secretary of State.
So the "nitty-gritty details," which of course Hillary is so intimately on top of - she, of course, being the greatest executive manager who ever lived - dictate that it is far, far better to wait until later next year to formally announce what everyone already knows.
And what exactly might these nitty-gritty details be? I'll hazard a few guesses:
Once she's a candidate, she's pretty much done with $300,000 speeches where she gets to dictate the style of her chair and accompanying pillows, demand orange slices in her water and insist that anyone presuming to present her with a medal must not touch her! Why not keep that racket going on a little longer if you can?
Her campaign advisors are still busily researching her record as a senator and as Secretary of State looking for an accomplishment, and they need more time.
Another cattle futures trade could be in the offing. Then again, she only made $100,000 on the first one. That's chump change compared to her speaking fee.
She needs more time to teach her campaign staff how to empathize with our attackers. That kind of smart power doesn't come naturally to most of us, you know.
And finally . . . Someone needs to come up with a rationale for why she should be president. Then again, another few months isn't nearly enough time to make that happen.
The Washington Post's political blog is all abuzz with talk that Hillary might feel threatened by Elizabeth Warren. I wouldn't doubt it only to the extent that Hillary regards anyone not totally on board with Hillary! as an enemy, and Warren is one of these far-left liberals so unhinged that she (or at least her admirers) thinks Hillary is some sort of moderate. Plus, she probably still has nightmares about Obama taking away her inevitable coronation in 2008, she you have to believe she's more paranoid than ever.
Too bad she can't postpone her candidacy until either she or the country is no longer in existence. But you know she's not going to do that, so the GOP is going to have to do it for her.
