Hillary Clinton may not have a serious opponent for the Democratic nomination — except herself.
The Clintons' unfortunate tendency to be their own worst enemy is on display, again, with reports that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton conducted official business solely from a personal e-mail account.
This is a problem — and not only because it presents a particularly unflattering contrast with the move by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to release a flood of official e-mails.
It illustrates Clinton's reflexive impulse to secrecy over transparency, a tendency no doubt bolstered by the bruising experience of her White House years, yet one that she would be well advised to resist rather than indulge.
And — not that shoe-on-the-other-foot comparisons have much power to embarrass in politics these days — but it contrasts with Democrats' howls of outrage over disclosures that operatives in the George W. Bush White House conducted official business on private e-mail accounts.
Indeed, Clinton herself was once worked up about this very issue. "We know about the secret wiretaps, the secret military tribunals, the secret White House e-mail accounts," she said back then.
So what to make of the revelation that Clinton avoided official e-mail entirely while at State? This had to be a deliberate decision. After all, the issue of the Bush e-mails was still in the news.
And, as the Washington Post's Philip Bump reports, the e-mail domain clintonemail.com that she appears to have been using was created on Jan. 13, 2009, the very day Clinton's confirmation hearings began.