Tip to Democratic Party operatives

Ask yourself this: when in your experience has a Democratic candidate for president with a clear lead gotten such poor press so far in advance of the nomination? And when have even many of those supporting the candidate not considered her trustworthy? Fair or unfair, as a purely tactical matter, how safe is it to go with this candidate?

A few examples:

• The Benghazi stuff
• The email business
• Over half of voters think H Clinton, as secretary of state, may have helped foreign countries in return for their donations to the Clinton Foundation.
•  A poll that shows even 47% of women say she hasn't been honest and trustworthy, plus 61% of the men. 
• Her inaccessibility to the press which has even been noted by the Washington Post
• The Post also noted how her proposal for ending mass incarceration conflicted with those of her husband; "In effect, she was saying that policies put in place when her husband Bill Clinton was president have not worked."

Add to that the fact that in supermarkets all over America, the latest National Enquirer has brought up the Vince Foster matter again in a particularly nasty manner.

We have never seen a leading presidential candidate be in such troubled waters this early in a campaign. Don't know what to do about it, but you shouldn't ignore it.