Hillary Clinton For President In 2016? One Top Democratic Strategist Says Yes

Democratic strategist James Carville is lending his support to a super PAC aiming to lure Hillary Clinton into running for president in 2016. Carville is the highest profile Democrat to commit himself to the cause.

Carville (pictured below) is a longtime friend and supporter to the Clinton family. He was an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008 and ran former president Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, turning the Arkansas governor into the reason the first President Bush only served one term. His role in the campaign was documented in the Academy Award-nominated film, The War Room. Ever heard the phrase, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’? Carville helped make those words famous.

Now Carville is throwing his support behind the Ready for Hillary PAC and will urge other other supporters to do the same. The Washington Post got its hands on the email due out later today. In it, Carville writes:

“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. 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.”

The Hill reports that the Ready for Hillary PAC formed back in January, spearheaded by Allida Black and Judy Beck, two Clinton supporters who helped her raise more than $100,000 in 2008. The group already had 50,000 Twitter followers and 30,000 Facebook fans at the time. Many Democrats jump at the chance to see Clinton run for president.

Clinton will be 69 in 2016, nearly a decade older than she was when she ran in 2008. That is older than most presidential candidates, though John McCain was a whopping 72 years old when he ran against Barack Obama. If victorious, Clinton would become president in 2016 at the same age as Ronald Reagan, and many would say he did just fine.

[Featured image by English: Glenn Fawcett (www.defense.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]

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