The way the system works, the odds favor Hilary and Mitt.
Not the Hilary and Mitt we know now, but the reshaped, re-messaged Hilary and Mitt of 2008.
So it's a little difficult to accurately foresee what a contest is like between two people who simply don't exist at this moment.

All this negative stuff about Hilary is actually free campaigning on her behalf. The bar will be set so low for her, that all she'll have to do is not bite off a baby's head, and people will say "Oh, she's not as bad as they said she was"

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address