Hillary Clinton: The Candidate of Experience

By: Chris Guy
Published On: 2/20/2008 1:28:23 AM

Joe Sudbay from AMERICAblog sums things up pretty well. Sen. Clinton supposedly has "35 years of experience" and is "ready to lead from day one?" Her campaign is fast becoming a punchline.

The Clinton team simply had no plan for any of the states after February 5th - they knew, and loudly told everyone who would listen, that they were going to win on Super Tuesday. Now that we're far beyond Super Tuesday, with Hillary falling more and more behind (the AP tonight called her "fading"), her campaign's bizarre response has been to dismiss any state won by Obama. Just this weekend, The Washington Post reported that the Clinton campaign just figured out the rules in Texas (the primary/caucus is only two weeks away). And, Clinton didn't field a full slate of delegates for Pennsylvania. Those are supposed to be rookie mistakes.

Hillary Clinton deserves better than the campaign she's had. But, Clinton put this campaign together. She owns it.

And Joe forgot to mention that Gov. Rendell extended the deadline for her in PA so they could come up with the delegates.

But Clinton can she right the ship can't she? SURELY she's learned from her mistakes?

Howard Fineman reported that top Clinton staffers think their negative campaigning worked -- get this -- because she didn't lose by 25 points.

Comments



Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (The Grey Havens - 2/20/2008 1:45:50 AM)
Compare the results from Wisconsin:

WI 91%
McCain 55%
Huckabee 37%

Margin:  18%

That's John McCain, the presumptive nominee, the guy who has been endorsed by essentially every important Republican.  John McCain, in his race, which is essentially a done deal, wins Wisconsin by 18%.

WI 91%
Obama 58%
Clinton 41%

Margin:  17%

And then there's Barack Obama, locked in a life or death battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic party. Barack Obama in his race, which will supposedly go all the way to the convention, wins Wisconsin by 17%.

Meanwhile, Republicans are SCREAMING for McCain's chief rival, Mike Huckabee to drop out.  Will Democrats start calling for Hillary's exit?



Jon Stewart said something similar to that (Chris Guy - 2/20/2008 2:07:22 AM)
on The Daily Show after the Potomac Primary. McCain BARELY escapes and Huckabee talks about needing a miracle. Obama CRUSHES Clinton and it's neck and neck. (Stewart said it funnier though)


Hopefully, she exits gracefully after next week (AnonymousIsAWoman - 2/20/2008 2:47:39 PM)
And at least gets some credit for not dividing the party and throwing the election to Republicans.

I suspect she still has to get used to the idea that "the inevitably of Hillary" was both a myth and probably offensive to a lot of voters who, after all, wanted to be the ones to determine that.