What's Hillary Waiting For?

John Phillips at Top of the Ticket thinks Hillary Clinton should challenge Obama for the 2012 nomination:

If Hillary Clinton's primary voters and President Obama had their relationship status listed on their Facebook pages, it would change from “Married” to “It's complicated.”

To be fair, Hillary voters never fell in love with Obama, they just fell in line. Their relationship is less like a Julia Roberts chick flick and more like a Bengali arranged marriage.

Because of their arrangement, Hillary-loving Obama voters are quick to jump ship whenever Mr. Hope-and-Change looks like he's getting played again by his political opponents, is in over his head or is dissing their girl.

Despite Obama's anti-climactic campaign announcement just now, according to all the recent polls, Hillary voters aren't only jumping ship –- they're taking their fins, snorkels and pina coladas with them.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows President Obama's approval rating at....

...a pathetic 42% –- down four points from early March. The American public isn't impressed with his handling of the crisis in Libya either -– with 47% of the public against the war and 58% of registered voters saying the president has not clearly stated U.S. goals for the mission.

These numbers are bad –- really bad –- CNN prime time ratings bad.

Read the rest of it here.

Frankly, I think she should run too, not because I want her to win the White House, but because I think she could knock him off in the primary and split the Dem party sufficiently enough to let a Republican win in November.  Realistically, this is probably the last election that Hillary will have a serious chance at the nomination.  She'll be too old and out of the public eye by 2016 (she's planning to leave her current job at the end of this term), and she'll never have a better chance to contrast herself with an opponent than she will in 2012.  There are a lot of Democrats out there that would like to fix their 2008 mistake.

My gut feeling is she won't run, and I really don't know what the reason will be.  But nothing would supercharge the election in 2012 more than a Hillary challenge.