DEMS SCARED BY HILLARY'S STUMBLES – AT 10:58 A.M. ET:   She really is the only candidate the Democrats have got.  And she's kind of starting her presidential campaign under a cloud, where you usually find the Clintons.  From Breitbart: 

National Journal Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director Ron Fournier said that Democrats are “scared to death” over the scandals regarding donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s emails on Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.

“Don’t buy the spin, they [Democrats] are scared to death. And there’s a lot of them who are already starting to think ‘is she really the best candidate for us?’…Their bench, compared to the Republican bench is awfully, awfully thin. And there’s a lot of Democrats, by the way, who are saying ‘follow the money.’ A lot of Democrats are really worried about the Foundation, that’s what they’re really worried about” he stated.

Earlier, Fournier said that the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of Chinese donations is “a big issue. There’s a lot of other ways the Chinese government, and the Saudis, and the [Qataris] — there are other ways that they can help the world if that’s what they want to do. They’re giving their money to the Clinton Foundation for a reason. They want something out of it. So I know, what I really want to see in these e-mails is any e-mail that mentions the Foundation and mentions one of the donors.”

Fournier also commented on James Carville’s defense of Clinton, arguing that “what Carville did is give up the goods. What he admitted there was that this was not a matter of convenience, which is what the Secretary said. He admitted that the reason she did this was so she didn’t have to comply with the oversight of the House, and –and with the natural laws of transparency. He gave up the goods. He sold her out.”

COMMENT:  As Cindy Adams used to say, so many scandals, so little time.  Hillary is still the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic Party's nomination, and she still leads all other Republicans in most polls.  But her numbers are in decline.  And since those numbers are powerfully helped by name recognition, they may well fade much more as Republican candidates become better known.

The fact is that the Democratic Party is in terrible shape.  It has lost control of both House and Senate, and most state governments.  If it loses the presidency, it may also lose control of the Washington dinner-party circuit.  And that is the worst cut of all.

March 17, 2015