Fox News' Krauthammer Declares Hillary Clinton A ‘Weak Candidate’

Fox’s Charles Krauthammer gave Special Report viewers and staff a belated Christmas present last week when he declared that Hillary Clinton will be a “weak candidate.”

In a December 26 discussion about the early handicapping of the 2016 presidential race, Krauthammer discussed Clinton’s chances in a general election. Of course, host Shannon Bream wasted little time “asking” if Benghazi would be a factor.

Not in the primary, Krauthammer said. It wasn’t clear how much of a factor it would be in the general. Regardless, he considered Clinton a likely loser:

I think she is going to be rather weak if she decides to run, which I think she likely is. She’s gonna be a relatively weak opponent, and Republicans, I think, are going to have a really good shot at the White House.

Later, Nina Easton rebutted. “I would disagree that she won’t be a strong candidate. I think she will be a very strong candidate. And she also polls a lot of independent women, Republican women who are, who find her candidacy very appealing. I think the other factor to look at here is that the Republican party is still in the midst of a civil war, and that’s going to play out in the primaries, and I think that’s going to continue to hurt them in the general election.”

A CNN poll suggests Easton is right. Only New Jersey Governor Chris Christie comes close to beating Clinton in a general matchup. Christie leads 48-46%,but Clinton would beat Rep. Paul Ryan by 8 points, Sen. Rand Paul by 13, Mike Huckabee by 15, Gov. Rick Perry by 17, Sen. Ted Cruz by 18, Sen.Marco Rubio and former Sen. Rick Santorum by 19, and Jeb Bush by 21 points. Weak opponent? Not yet anyway.

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commented 2014-01-05 16:51:13 -0500 · Flag

Clinton’s still playing the “willshe/won’t she?” card, but if she runs, she already has a hell of a following. They want weak candidates, they can look at their 2012 crop- Oh, wait, most of them are running again.

commented 2014-01-05 12:31:00 -0500 · Flag

Weak????
I’ll bet that she can take Krauthammer in an arm wrestle!

commented 2014-01-05 11:23:26 -0500 · Flag

And Republicans will win in a landslide… Apparently learning nothing from the experiences of Rove and Morris, Republicans continue to delude themselves that the world will order itself according to their most desperate wishes. It makes for a fun job, if you can keep it, Krauthammer.

commented 2014-01-05 09:20:02 -0500 · Flag

Kraphamsters is blowing smoke up his own cadaver ass if he thinks that Hillary Clinton is a weak candidate. Especially if she is matched up against some teabagger fav like Gomer the Huckster, Joe McCarthy-Cruz, Big Gulp Rubio or Frothy Mixture Santorum.

commented 2014-01-05 07:57:12 -0500 · Flag

As if FauxNews is a fair and balanced site for democratic candidates … their only purpose is to brainwash people in seeing things their way.

commented 2014-01-05 01:35:17 -0500 · Flag

Handicapping an election nearly three years in the future is akin to setting a wedding date before you’ve met your fiancée.

commented 2014-01-05 01:19:21 -0500 · Flag

To add to my previous comment, it’d be interesting if CNN did a poll matching up Christie with several leading GOP contenders as a possible Christie VP choice and see how that team would fare against Clinton.

commented 2014-01-05 01:18:02 -0500 · Flag

I wonder who was actually polled by CNN? I just ask because the “consensus” is that Christie can’t possibly win the GOP nomination (unless the Teabaggers are kicked to the curb) and Christie—although he’s pretty hardcore right-wing (even by New Jersey standards)—would have to make such hard turns to appease the Teabag faction that he’d completely alienate his “Northeast GOP base” (the batch that are reasonably sane—even if some do occasionally veer off into nutjob stances). OR, Christie would have to accede to the far-right’s demands for a far-right VP candidate (shades of “Romney/Ryan”) to which Christie would have a very difficult time roping in the moderate voters (who might have been willing to vote for Christie as the “sensible” GOP candidate).

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Here comes the Hillary onslaught!