WASHINGTON – Before Hillary Clinton decides what she will do after
resigning as Secretary of State, she ought to consider that top
Democratic operatives are already positioning a leftist challenger who
could disrupt her presidential hopes every bit as much as Barack Obama
did in 2008.
Very quietly, support is building behind the scenes among the
left-wing radicals who have gained control of the Democratic Party to
position Attorney General Eric Holder to run for president 2016,
expressing a determination to succeed Barack Obama with another equally
committed radical.
On Nov. 19, approximately two weeks after the 2012 presidential election, Fox News
announced Holder had decided to honor President Obama’s request to
remain on as attorney general “for about a year” into the start of
Obama’s second term.
Then, on Dec. 3, Fox News reported Eric Holder’s chief of staff, Gary
Grindler, a “top adviser” to Holder who had played a key role in
negotiations obtaining from BP a $4 billion settlement over the BP oil
spill, had decided to leave the Justice Department.
Before serving as chief of staff for Holder, Grindler served as
acting deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position within the Justice
Department.
According to the Fox News report, a Justice Department spokesperson
attributed Grindler’s departure to be the result of a normal turnover
between administrations.
Yet, congressional Republicans investigating the Fast and Furious
scandal had targeted Grindler for not acting after receiving a
law-enforcement briefing on the gun-walking operation on March 12, 2012,
several months before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives launched its investigation.
A report by the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded
Grindler was negligent in failing to notify Holder when he learned guns
found at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder in
December 2010 traced back to Fast and Furious.
Cynically viewed, Grindler’s departure removes a target from the
sights of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee investigating Fast and Furious.
Should Holder run for president in 2016, his candidacy would provide a
strong counter to any presidential campaign Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton might decide to launch.
As Secretary of State during Obama’s first term in office, Clinton
could reasonably expect to have Obama’s endorsement for her presidential
run, an endorsement that would be complicated for Obama if Holder
decided to run.
With Holder’s nomination for president in 2016, the political left
controlling the Democrat Holder could also expect to hold together the
modern-day version of FDR’s New Deal coalition that voted Obama a second
term in this year’s presidential election.
Holder is likely to draw similar percentages to Obama among minority inner city African-American voters.
Given the Justice Department’s strong opposition to Arizona’s Gov.
Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on immigration issues,
Holder is likely to repeat Obama’s gains with Hispanic voters,
including any illegal immigrants who might be deemed eligible to vote in
2016.
Holder’s enforcement of workplace rights should also appeal to single
women including single mothers and radical feminists, as well as union
workers including SEIU government workers.
Democratic Party insiders expect Holder to stay in the Justice
Department for at least one year, or as long as it takes to defuse any
continuing investigation of Fast and Furious that Issa might yet have
the political capital to sustain into Obama’s second term.
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