In poker, they call it “all in”.  In the circus, they call it a “one trick pony”.  As my dad used to tell me, “Remember, Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse.”

I’m referring to the increasingly perilous strategy of the Democrat National Committee to bet everything they have on Hilary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Sweepstakes.  In the cotton candy mind of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democrats best chance at furthering the Obama agenda into the future is by putting all their chips on Mrs. Bill Clinton.

That’s why, when you see seventeen Republican candidates line up to duke it out in nationally televised debates in August, you have to scratch your head and ask why the Democrats aren’t debating anything, anywhere at any time.  There is a method to their madness and the fingerprints on this plan belong to Ms. Rodham-Clinton.

It would probably suit Mrs. Clinton’s deepest political fantasy if she did not have to discuss a single significant policy issue with the press or the American public until after the primaries are concluded next June.  The trick bag that every Democratic Presidential candidate finds themselves in is the need to list the political ship to port during the primaries and then move the ship to starboard during the general election.

The Republican candidate has the exact opposite problem.  They must run to the right to secure the nomination and then take a much softer and gentler approach in the general election as not to spook foggy-minded voters who let John Stewart, David Letterman, Kim Kardashian and NBC news sway both their propensity to turn out and vote and their choice of candidates.

Unfortunately, most voters don’t tune into the political process until after Labor Day, in a Presidential election year.  Until then, the vacuous statements, false pledges and outright fibs go unnoticed by all but the most politically aware voters.  The only political class that seems to hang on every word uttered during the long run up to the November election is the press and the internet.  Words spoken in an Iowa coffee shop to a small group of voters can be resurrected in the final sixty days of a campaign to serve to torpedo a thriving candidate.  Mom used to say that words can hurt and that may be the only thing that my mother and Hilary Clinton ever had in common.

You see Hilary Clinton is in a most precarious position.  Unlike President Barrack Obama, who didn’t leave any dirty footprints in the snow in his public life leading up to his 2008 Presidential campaign, Clinton has a detailed record as First Lady, Senator from New York and Secretary of State.  She’s on the record and her words and actions are fair game for political combat.  Any investment prospectus will tell you, “Past performance is no indication of future performance.”  In politics, past performance tells you everything that you need to know.  Mrs. Clinton would prefer that she not have to defend her words, votes, behavior and record until she squares off against the eventual Republican candidate.

Until that time, Hilary would prefer to talk about that old nasty Republican war on women, nasty Republican attitudes about gay people, nasty Republican attitudes about immigration and nasty old, wealthy white men who rob from the poor and give to 527 PACs.

While most Republicans relish the opportunity to hear seventeen pretty capable people debate issues, ideas and philosophies for the next few months, the national Democratic leadership would prefer that Hilary Clinton waltz through the primary season without getting pinned down in a “I’m more Socialist than you” battle with Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley or in a pragmatic discussion with moderate Democrat Jim Webb.  She would prefer to define herself after the primary season and not before her nomination is safely locked up, lest the wheels come off of the cart.

Why would the Democrat Party tee it up for one candidate at the expense of a fair and straightforward exchange of ideas?  Because the Democrats one and only chance of winning the White House in 2016 rests solely with Hilary Clinton.  Without her, there is no one of real substance waiting on the bench.  She’s it.  She has been it since President Obama won his second term.  The lady in waiting waits no more.

All that the pretenders to the throne, O’Malley, Sanders, Webb and possibly wacky Joe Biden can do is force Clinton further to the left on issues and nail her down on her explanations regarding Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation and the sewer of Clinton Servergate.  None of this would be good for Hilary’s November 2016 chances.  She would go limping into the election with all of her many political warts exposed.  Not a pretty sight!

For good or bad, you will have ample opportunity to know everything about the eventual Republican candidate.  They will have debated in nationally televised debates at least eight times, been exposed to endless interrogations by the media and had opposition research conducted on them by some extremely well-funded Republican opponents.  The Republican candidates are showering in a glass box for all to see.

On the other hand, the Democrats duplicitous strategy is to carefully craft candidate Clinton’s image and roll out Hilary version 4.0 in the narrow window from the Democratic National Convention to Election Day.  The philosophy of the Clintonites and Democrat string pullers is to nominate a can of Play Doh and sculpt something for public consumption down the road.  It is a sickening strategy that will serve neither the voters nor the United States.

Personally, I like the stable of Republican Presidential candidates.  I believe that the grueling process that they will face will bring the voters a qualified and extremely capable President.  The Democrats perilous strategy may only bring a lame old nag to the starting gate.

And they’re off!