Robert Shrum in the wonderfully titled “Be Afraid, GOP: Hillary Clinton Is Back and She Will Beat You in 2016:”
And all of [the Hillary in 2016 talk] does something else: it sends the chill wind of a potential 16 years of Democrats in the White House, along with a Supreme Court where the justices actually do justice, through the fevered right-wing swamps of the Clinton-haters and the Obama-abominators who see the white-male dominated America of their imagining fading away. My colleague, friend, and podcast sparring partner David Frum is certainly not among them—instead he’s offered the GOP perceptive counsel, fortunately spurned so far and perhaps indefinitely, about how to remake the party in substance as well as style. Now, however, on CNN and in The Daily Beast, he has weighed in with advice for Democrats and Clinton herself: She would be “a mistake for 2016.” It is a provocative, fresh, and seemingly well-argued piece—but it’s just plain wrong.
While Frum is a reasonable Republican these days, he is still a Republican. His advice that Clinton would be a mistake should be taken for what it is: a scared Republican trying to dissuade us from the path of guaranteed victory. Shrum goes on to refute Frum’s points about choosing the “next in line,” Hillary’s age, and rehashing the tired Clinton scandals and then takes what I think is delight in telling the Republicans to be afraid, be very afraid.