The big political news is that (1)a pro-Hillary Super PAC has been created to get former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in to the 2016 Democratic race and (2) legendary Clintonista political consultant and TV talking head James Carville has now signed on with the PAC.
How much closer can you get to it being HIGHLY likely Hillary Clinton will run for President in 2016 and be more formidable in the nomnination race than she was last time, given four years serving as Secretary of State in a performance all but the usual partisan political suspects will say (and you know who will say what if looks like she’s getting ready to jump in) was good one?
Democratic strategist James Carville, a longtime confidant of the Clinton family, has signed on with the super PAC devoted to luring Hillary Clinton into the 2016 presidential race.
A person familiar with Ready for Hillary PAC’s outreach efforts tells Post Politics that Carville will join the effort and will send an e-mail Thursday asking supporters to do the same.
“He is the first of several heavy hitters who will be rolled out by Ready for Hillary PAC,” the person said.
In the e-mail, Carville says that Clinton needs a legion of people behind her if she is to run again in 2016.“I’m not going to waste my time writing you about how great Hillary is or how formidable she’d be – you know it all already,” he will say in the e-mail, which was shared with Post Politics. “But it isn’t worth squat to have the fastest car at the racetrack if there ain’t any gas in the tank — and that’s why the work that Ready for Hillary PAC is doing is absolutely critical. We need to convert the hunger that’s out there for Hillary’s candidacy into a real grassroots organization.”
Carville, who managed Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and has remained close to the family ever since, has made little secret of his desire for Hillary Clinton to give it another shot after she lost the 2008 nomination to President Obama.
Nor has Bill Clinton.
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