Hillary
Clinton’s hibernation includes time in New York and Washington offices, working
on Obama-years memoirs and traveling around the country giving speeches at
$200,000 each, arranged by the same agent who wheels out Dick Cheney at $75,000
a pop.
Clinton,
who turns 66 in October, is politically at an awkward age, not officially running
for anything in 2016 but doing just what she would if she were.
Her
$8 million book deal with Simon and Schuster will be a platform next year for setting
the record straight on Benghazi and other Issa smears, while taking a victory
lap on 60 Minutes et al to remind supporters why they admire her just as GOP
presidential hopefuls turn up the volume for their nasty primary fights.
This
tome will have no Monica Lewinsky bombshells like its predecessor, but there
will be enough inside stuff about nailing bin Laden and other Obama foreign
policy goodies to remind voters of Clinton’s crucial role in all of them while
maintaining her distance from any new embarrassments like Eric Snowden that
arise between now and then.
Meanwhile
the GOP smear machine is tuning up just in case. A spokesman for a “politically
conservative action committee” says it’s too early to send operatives to Mrs.
Clinton’s speeches, but they are watching from a distance “to monitor whether
she’s hobnobbing with investment bankers in New York City that might seem like
favoritism down the line.”
It
won’t be long before the Koch brothers spring for the price of tickets, but
meanwhile Hillary Clinton will be smiling all the way to the banks to deposit
her speech gratuities and book royalty checks. She may even run into her
husband on the way.
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