June 21, 2013 12:13 PM UTC

Presidential Ponderation: the GOP Needs Hillary

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• by: Colorado Pols

It's a Friday in June. In 2013. What better time to start a regular feature on the 2016 Presidential Campaign?

For now, we're calling it "Presidential Ponderation," mostly because we like alliteration. Is "ponderation" a real word? Who cares!

We begin our random look at the 2016 Presidential race with an interesting story from The Huffington Post (via CNN) that begs a few questions about Hillary Clinton's potential candidacy:

The chance of her running is still enough for one Republican super PAC to mount a website against her potential campaign. CNN reported on Thursday that America Rising launched "Stop Hillary 2016" — a fundraising effort aimed at quelling support for the former Secretary of State, senator and first lady.

"America Rising was formed to prevent Americans from ever having to see another Clinton in the White House," the website reads. "We’ve seen what a President Hillary Clinton would be like from her time as Secretary of State. We can’t afford another Clinton administration after eight years of President Obama."

Launched in March, America Rising is run by some notable GOP faces — former Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades, and former RNC strategists Tim Miller and Joe Pounder. According to a McClatchy report, the group's focus is opposition research that serves as the "counter-weight to the Democratic equivalent, American Bridge."

Potential candidates on the Democratic side are obviously all politically paralyzed until Hillary makes an official decision on running for President in 2016, but you could make the case that Republicans need her to run in order to generate enough money and support for whomever they nominate themselves.