article_snippet: Likewise, Clinton cadre of loyal surrogates, who showed just how unhinged they are willing to sound to defend the irreproachable HRC in recent days, are sure to keep on circling the wagons and telling us that Clinton is the victim of a right-wing smear campaign and
article_snippet: -- wait for she is the victim of a right-wing smear campaign -- media bias.
article_snippet: Clinton's just as vulnerable, if not more, to the same kind of usurpation in 2016, thanks to an even greater sense of inevitability on the left, and
article_snippet: the reflexive rush to protect Clinton from valid questions and criticism isn't helping to dissolve the reflexive rush to protect her from valid questions and criticism.
article_snippet: But if Clinton wants 2016 to turn out differently than 2008, Clinton and Clinton surrogates can't keep insisting to voters that Clinton is above scrutiny.
highlights_snippet: Hillary Clinton is not invulnerable: Hillary Clinton risks losing Democratic and independent voters, who abandoned Hillary Clinton in 2008, Hillary Clinton says .
  