Hillary Clinton's fear of the trail

[Casino67]

:

This was the week when Hillary Clinton’s highest aspiration, being president, collided with her deepest fear — actually running for president.

 

It’s not that Clinton craves a coronation, people close to her say, it’s just that she wants to forestall her leap into the sulfurous political lava as long as possible. The chaotic indignity of Tuesday’s press conference on her use of a private email server as Secretary of State did nothing to change that opinion, or convince her to push up the campaign start date.

The firestorm over the emails – and earlier stories about the solicitation of foreign donations at the Clinton family charitable foundation have rattled the expanding crew of new operatives signing up for 2016 who haven’t experienced the maelstrom of a Clinton presidential campaign before. But the only two opinions that really count come from Hillary and Bill Clinton, and – despite the carping of Democrats inside and outside their own circle — they harbor few regrets about the way things have gone down so far.

 

“Eighteen months ago who would imagined Hillary Clinton would have zero competition in the primaries? That’s pretty good, right?” said one longtime Clinton insider, reflecting the prevailing view in the no-rush camp, which includes the Clintons and their longtime consigliore Cheryl Mills.

 

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clintons-fear-of-the-trail-116069.html#ixzz3UKF3FKId