Almost since Barack Obama took office, we've heard one constant mantra from the Democrats. Hillary Clinton will, "inevitably," be the next President of the United States. They were so sure that Hillary was on track to be the next "President Clinton" that they were openly mocking Republicans for suggesting that any substantive challenge could be mounted. Then, her time at the State Department was exposed as an unmitigated disaster. After she left office, she buried herself in terrible PR, gaffes, and unnecessary lies about being 'dead broke.'
As a result, her polling numbers have been in a year-long freefall. "Inevitability" has gone out the window. What was once portrayed as the biggest "sure thing" in presidential politics is now murky and debatable.
It's gotten so bad that even the political analysts who crunch numbers for MSNBC are being forced to admit: "Every major national poll show Americans' views of Hillary Clinton heading in the wrong direction."
The most telling part of this entire clip may come at the very end. Hillary is, without a doubt, the "same Hillary" of whom most Americans have already grown weary. If Democrats were expecting Ms. Clinton to have undergone some sort of metamorphosis that would make her more palatable, they were really kidding themselves.
The sad thing - for Hillary's fans - is that her entire political career has shown us one thing: She is who she is, and she's incapable of changing or disguising it. There's no "turning her image around," because with Hillary, the image is the reality.
It's obviously not impossible that she could still eke out a victory but, the more people see and hear her, the worse things will get for the former first lady. The "inevitable" nature of her presumed Presidency was always a fallacy.
