Is Hillary possibly the greatest, most selfless living American politician?
That's all I can come up with, because otherwise, she must be the worst, most clueless, inept politician out there.
Who else could take such an overwhelming lead and flush it down the toilet in just 3 short months? Who else could say absolutely ALL the wrong things? Who else could spin her campaign into exactly the niches that Americans are disgusted by?
Who else but the greatest American patriot could actually try to lose so that a great man like Obama could be elected?
Hey, I think Hillary started off thinking she could win this, but then it all of a sudden became clear that McCain would be the candidate (to all of our surprise, or rather not... to some of us who suspected this kind of feint from the GOP). And now I'm even starting to wonder whether the Clinton campaign just got extremely real, extremely quickly.
Hillary's campaign had been operating under the assumption that it would either be Romney or Giuliani they'd have to be facing, but wouldn't you know it, McCain got swapped out at the last minute. And frankly, I'm the first one to call poop on the legitimacy of the Republican primary; that I'll say up front.
This was pure Rove, pure diversion, and the GOP nearly had us. They nearly had their McCain v. Hillary election.
But then... did Hillary decide to tank it? I just can't rationally explain away the pure ineptness of her campaign, the consistency of that ineptness, ever since it became clear that McCain would be the GOP candidate.
Her campaign finances were reported as bleak.
Her staff started resigning.
Bill pissed off the black community with idiotic senseless comments.
Hillary's campaign can't go a day without another petty negative attack that she knows full well Americans are tired of.
Then she goes and pisses off the superdelegates by walking around with some sort of mandate or chip on her shoulder about what she thinks they should do or what they owe her.
And then to top everything, she tells the states we need to pick up in November that they don't matter.
So exactly when did the Clintons become such terrible politicians? Some might say they were always great at losing Democrats seats, but I'd say that those seats were rarely the ones they were sitting in.
So, while I'll concede that it's more likely that Hillary really is just as desperate and petty as we all think she is... I'm also willing to ponder whether she isn't in fact tanking this for the health of our party?
After all, how could anyone be this bad? Really.