From Politico Magazine's Haberman and Thrush, a tidy compendium of the coming GOP attacks on Hillary:
There’s her age (she’ll turn 69 just before election day 2016), her health, her loyalty to a diminished Obama, Benghazi, Bill, the vast sums collected by the family’s charitable foundation, the Islamic State and the mess in the Middle East, Obamacare/Hillarycare, unanswered questions about old Arkansas and White House scandals, her perceived habit of stretching the truth, her enormous personal wealth--and how she got it....
Plus, she's "too cautious, too calculating," too untrustworthy and too manifestly desperate for the presidency. She also reeks of "the politics of the past."
It's a former oppo-researcher for candidate Obama who relates perhaps Hillary's greatest vulnerability on the campaign trial: "You can get in her head." The staffer's Republican counterpart agrees: "She’s so easily rattled and taken off her game."
This quote, though, from a "longtime adviser" to Obama, is the most unintentionally biting of all: "She’s not perfect, but something beats nothing, and they’ve got nothing." Exactly. It's the GOP's bungling bench of nothingness that makes one wonder why the Dems wouldn't just go with "something" else--someone, that is, with far fewer vulnerabilities. Why would Dems put themselves through all this impending pain, when Republicans have ... nothing?