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23 January 2014

Hillary Clinton’s time to be President has passed

Image by Harald Dettenborn

If elected President in 2016, Hillary Clinton would, at 69, be the oldest person after Ronald Reagan to take the oath of office for the first time. She has a history of health problems. But she and her supporters who blindly follow her give every indication they believe she’ll live forever.

Democrats with this attitude do not belong to a reality based community.

Nor do they care if they belong to a reality based community. They’re part of an identity politics personality cult that has as its highest priority electing a woman President. For these Democrats, electing Hillary Clinton President would do for women and gender equality what electing Barack Obama was supposed to do for blacks and racial equality.

In the absence of any credible Democrat declaring for the Presidency, her star, the only one in the Democratic firmament, appears to shine brightly, just as did in 2007, when she was still under 60 and untested on the Presidential stage. Once again, she and her acolytes are attempting to create an aura of inevitability, of invincibility, a sure sign they learned nothing from her last campaign.

All that has changed is that she’s grown older. And, grown old.

Hillary Clinton’s time has passed. If she truly wants to help her country and her political party, she’ll admit that, abjure seeking the nomination, and urge Democrats to nominate someone younger. For example, Andrew Cuomo. So will Democratic activists and superpacs such as Priorities USA Action (which the New York Times reports is now controlled by Clintonlanders).