So, does anyone believe this "Tweet?"

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 9:49pm

Guess what! Joe Biden actively preparing to run against Hillary. Maybe others like Kerry.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 1, 2015

And "No, I'm not following ol' Rupert, LOL!"

It came from BloombergPolitics:

Rupert Murdoch Says Joe Biden 'Actively Preparing' to Run Against Hillary Clinton
Feb 1, 2015 5:50 PM CST

. . . Murdoch gave no further details on how he had come upon the knowledge that Vice President Biden, and possibly Clinton's successor at the State Department, would challenge Clinton for the party's presidential nomination. A Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll of Iowa Democrats released over the weekend found Biden coming in a distant third place to Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Biden received just nine percent support in the poll, while Clinton was the first choice of 56 percent of those surveyed.

When asked last week by Good Morning America host George Stephanopolous whether he would seek the Democratic nomination, Biden left the possibility open.

“Yes, there is a chance,” Biden said. “But I haven’t made my mind up about that. We’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then. There’s plenty of time.” . . .

I've heard several mainstream media congressional and national reporters who are covering the presidential election mention that the "lack of legitimacy" issue that will face HRC, if she runs unchallenged. (It would anyone, since it is a rare occurrence.)

If there is any truth to this (Biden and Kerry running), I believe that it is Kabuki Theater intended to protect Clinton from these charges.

I'm getting ready to clip a recent Sanders interview [to post], in which he remains frustratingly uncommittal regarding his own primary intentions.

I'm hoping that enough discontent expressed by the progressive blogosphere will generate a primary challenger to Clinton.

Perhaps we should be relieved that her camp is now floating 'waiting until July to announce.'

My question is: "Which alternative primary challenger would truly be the most likely to take the challenge?"

(I'm not even including the likes of O'Malley, Biden or Kerry. I just thought the Murdoch Tweet was interesting.)

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Comments

Submitted by Tammany Tiger on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 9:56pm

I'm glad he's "actively preparing" to challenge her

If he were "passively preparing" to challenge her, his campaign would never get off the ground.

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 10:48pm

Good point, Also, "Murdoch fundraiser for Clinton creates buzz"

It's hard to know where the ol' boy's coming from, since:

"Murdoch fundraiser for Clinton creates buzz"
AP, updated 5/12/2006 7:09:38 PM ET

NEW YORK — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel and other conservative news outlets have been skewering Hillary Rodham Clinton for years, will host a summer fund-raiser for the senator, mystifying some observers and enraging others.

Especially incensed are liberal activists, who for months have decried what they see as a shift to a right on Clinton’s part as the Democrat contemplates a run for president in 2008. They are stunned that she is associating with a man viewed as a cornerstone of the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” a term Clinton herself employed.

“Hillary, help us. Who the hell are you?” thundered Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. . . .

The Clinton-Murdoch alliance is not entirely new. The two have been moving toward a détente since 2000, when she won her Senate seat after a campaign that included a series of not-so-flattering Clinton headlines in another Murdoch property, the New York Post.

Murdoch has also developed a relationship with former President Clinton, a prime target of criticism from Fox and the New York Post during his presidency. Murdoch participated in a conference of the Clinton Global Initiative last fall, and the former president is scheduled to address a gathering of News Corp. executives in California later this year.

A business move?

Murdoch, whose $60 billion empire is a major presence in New York, is more shrewd businessman than ideologue, and friendly relations with a powerful New York senator are in his best interest. Murdoch also organized a fund-raiser for New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, during his re-election campaign in 2004.

But Clinton’s motive for accepting a Murdoch-sponsored fund-raiser is not quite as clear. She faces minimal opposition in her Senate race — something Murdoch acknowledged this week in an interview on Fox News. And with at least $20 million in her campaign account — a figure that dwarfs that of all her potential rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination — Clinton doesn’t really need the money. . .

Of course, he also held a fundraiser when she ran for President.

And, for all the faux outrage described in this piece, and again a couple of years later, it appears that it rolls off 'the Left'--including the Dem Party Base--like water off of a duck.

Here's the link: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12762092/ns/politics/t/murdoch-fund-raiser-cli...

Sigh . . .

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Submitted by Tammany Tiger on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 11:19pm

Rupert the Awful also sucked up to Tony Blair in the late 1990s

Blair, like the Clintons, moved his political party to the right and adopted a neo-conservative foreign policy. In fact, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that Hillary Clinton is Tony Blair in a pantsuit.

Submitted by Cordelia Lear on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 10:56pm