Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer was the opening guest on Wednesday evening's Hugh Hewitt program and the subject quickly turned to a possible Hillary Clinton run for the presidency. According to the columnist the Clinton's nomination is inevitable, the Democrats have already emotionally committed themselves to her.
Hewitt started the discussion by asking about the recent Benghazi report by the House Committee on Intelligence. He wondered if Hillary Clinton is in the clear now that the House Intelligence Committee issued a report, as flawed as it might be.
Krauthammer: With Trey Gowdy on the case, nobody’s in the clear. Trey Gowdy is a Congressmen who’s head of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. He’s a serious guy. He’s going after that in a serious way. He’s a former prosecutor. We’re not going to have grandstanding. We’re not going to have overpromising. We’re not going to have strategic leaks. We’re going to have a presentation of evidence, and I think we’ll get a very fair presentation in the coming years. So I’m not concerned either way. It may hurt, may help Hillary. I don’t know. I care about the truth, and I think we’re going to get it.
Krauthammer and Hewitt moved on to Clinton's sudden agreement with President Obama's recent executive order granting temporary amnesty to illegal aliens which Krauthammer believed was a good political move. Then Hewitt turned the conversation toward the possibility of a tough primary season for the former Secretary of State:
Hewitt: With Benghazi back there and her immigration position, do you think former Senator Webb is in a position to give her any real problems?
Krauthammer: You know, I think that Democrats are in such a swoon over Hillary, it’s sort of all, it’s not at the level, the emotional level of the 2008 swoon for Obama, but they are committed. I mean, they’ve already, they are betrothed. You know, this marriage has already been set. I don’t think anybody’s going to give her serious trouble. I think Webb might actually just be an interesting counterweight to her, but I don’t see it as a serious challenge to her getting the nomination.
Hewitt: All right, two last questions, then. Has she been around too long? I don’t mean in age, but she’s been around D.C. for a quarter century.
Krauthammer: Yeah.
Hewitt: She’s been in reruns a long time. Is it too long for the American people?
Krauthammer: Well, except for the fact that she’s Clinton, and that she’s the wife of the president who people remember as being a really good decade. So I think that works somewhat against her. But it’s not as if she’s a hack politician like a Harry Reid who’s been around forever, and people say do we really want him in high office? You know, it’s a person associated with a certain time. I’m reading the biography of Napoleon by Andrew Roberts, and I’m thinking of, you know, his nephew, Napoleon III, who came around 50 years later. I don’t know what Louie Napoleon’s platform was, and I’m sure he was running on the Napoleon name, and a bit of gauzy nostalgia for his time.
