David Shuster: DNC May Look at Replacing Hillary

Several days ago, I wrote about what may happen if a nominee of one of the two major parties could not continue to Election Day. The ���first-line��� option involves hand-picked replacement by either the Republican or Democratic National Committees���and now it appears as though that possibility might well become a reality in light of the troubles the Democrats are having with their clearly-ailing standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton.

According to Gateway Pundit, veteran reporter David Shuster, who has been an anchor at MSNBC and spent time over at Fox News and CNN, as well, tweeted out on Sunday night that Democratic Party ���operatives��� told him that an ���emergency meeting��� of the Democratic National Committee was expected to take place so that they might ���consider��� the possibility of replacing Hillary Clinton as the party���s nominee for president.

Shuster reported the following day that if Clinton ���withdraws,��� the DNC is expected to replace her with Vice President Joe Biden.

While the last 24 or so hours have seen the worry over Hillary���s health die down slightly, there remains real concern about her immediate future as a candidate, and growing concern about her ability to serve if she were to prevail in November���s general election. While the bizarre scene featuring her early departure from a 9/11 memorial ceremony has been attributed to symptoms of pneumonia, many observers are questioning that explanation, given how entirely fragile she looked in the moment.

Not helping her case was the decision to cancel, outright, an upcoming trip to California. As anyone who has had pneumonia can attest, particularly the ���walking��� type that Clinton appears to have, while the symptoms can certainly present a challenge, they don���t usually prove debilitating���except in the most serious of cases���to the degree evidenced by Clinton as she departed the 9/11 ceremony.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large