March 5, 2015--Joe Biden Time?

Just when it looked as if the Democrats were going to have a coronation rather than a slugfest for the 2016 presidential nomination, there was another Clinton implosion.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that while she was Secretary of State, rather than using the required government e-mail system, Hillary Clinton used her own personal one.

This means she may have inappropriately (not illegally) communicated in this way about the nation's highest and most sensitive diplomatic issues. Additionally, all correspondence engaged in by public officials is considered public property and Clinton, by using a private system for all her e-mailing, would give her much more control of access to what she wanted known than if she had used the State Department system. About political hot-button Benghazi, for example. But by bypassing the government system, she could limit just how transparent she wanted to be.

It is now being suggested, considering how the Clintons (plural) have been prone to play fast and loose with various regulations and even legal requirements, that Hillary's use of a private e-mail account is outrageous. So much so that regulars on MSNBC are either dumbfounded or full-throttle joining the criticism.

This undoubtedly means that other potential 2016 Democrat candidates are delighted and thus stirring about, reconsidering their reluctance to contest for the nomination.

The pressure on Elizabeth Warren will inevitably build. Former governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley and Jim Web, former Virginia senator, who have had toes in the water already will probably be making discreet calls to sound out potential funders, being careful to use non-governmental phones.

And of course Joe Biden must be ordering up more hair transplants.

Expect to hear rumblings from Andrew Cuomo (New York governor) and Virginia senator Tim Kaine. There will likely be stirrings from the other Virginia senator Mark Warner, and heavy breathing from Al Franken (Minnesota senator) and his colleague, Amy Klobuchar. All will begin to make plans to visit London and Israel to bulk up their foreign policy cred.

And then there is John Kerry. If he pulls off a decent deal with Iran, don't be surprised to see him in the race after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. He's only 71, has hundreds of millions of his own money, is tall, and has a full head of hair. But this time around, don't expect to see him windsurfing.

There is even talk about George Clooney. Yes, that George Clooney. He's settled down now that he's married and what a First Lady Amal would make. She already had the gloves for the job.

As a political junkie, I'm excited that a Democrat clown car might soon be revving up.

Sadly, the candidates truly qualified to be president beside Hillary are John Kerry and Joe Biden. They are the only ones who know anything about the larger world. But both are elderly and wired into the Washington establishment and thus would be weak candidates in an antigovernment era. If the Clinton candidacy collapses, as I think it will, neither Kerry nor Biden is likely to win enough primaries to be nominated since they will not be able to make a persuasive case that they represent the future.

I say, therefore, start getting ready for Democrat nominee Elizabeth Warren and, after a close election, President Scott Walker.