They'd be able to justify it with a "means to an ends" logic--it was so important we elect HRC, and no we can do wonderful work and everyone will forget about the nastiness.

But if you're left with no prize and no flurry of activity, you're just standing there with the slime you threw still on your hands; the slime your partners threw still spattering you (because you did not distance yourself after the slime was thrown--metaphor not QUITE working, but).

So I think on some level I'm prepared for something even more appalling than NRC's hard-working people, white people remarks. Joe Conason has a great article asking if she's reincarnating herself as George Wallace.

New aphorism: Desperation is the mother of atrocity.