The Senator and the Ex President spent millions of their own money, millions more of everyone else's, and yet seem convinced the only way to win is to continue to pour gasoline on themselves while they're already flaming through what little legacy they had left with the Democratic Party, and um, their souls.
Even Sen. Barry was willing to cut HillBill a little slack for their their shady code-word nonsense just to move on. But no, they had to not only make a half-assed "non apology" - today they had to go on offense, Gingrich/GOP style and play the same lawyer wordy tricks we saw during impeachment. (remember the definition of "is" by Bill??)
Sen. Clinton's now-longshot campaigns seems to be like that Warren Zevon song, "Lawyers, Guns and Money":
Lawyers: After signing a pledge to not campaign in Florida and Michigan because they willingly broke the rules all other states agreed to with respect to primaries, now Hillary and Bill want to change the rules and are considering legal trickery (which is hard to hold up when dealing with private organizations such as political parties) to try and game the results. Mmm hmm.
Guns: The constant insinuation that Barack Obama (who, if you're not aware of, is sorta African American and as "far as she knows" isn't Muslim - cute lawyer game, former Rose Law Firm Partner!) might get killed by some wackjob. Class-see.
Money: She loaned her campaign millions of dollars, all the while Sen. Obama got millions of new donors paying in small donations. She's now putting out the junk mail and the high donor calls for more money to pay back her "debts." Funny, she has stiffed many of those "hard working white americans" in small towns on bills, but she also owes herself millions. Guess who gets paid back first!
Maybe, just maybe, it wasn't Someone Else that ruined Hillary's tea party. Maybe, just maybe, she paid the wrong people too much money for a strategy that was just not very good, while Obama's campaign did this old school notion of ORGANIZING that just never popped on the radar of wealthy DC political insiders.
I have always been willing to accept ANY Democratic nominee if it means keeping out a Bush Third Term out of the White House, and allow us to expand our Majority in Congress so we can finally move on and get some work done. Hillary is, however, starting to crack under the pressure and act like a Tracy Flick with serious issues, and while that may be fine in high school, it is no way to run a country. It's really embarassing, especially when I for years was one of Bill Clinton's fans and had the honor of meeting him twice during his presidency.
So it's kinda weird to watch The Establishment fail like this, but there's a bit of schadefreude in it too....I mean, they're getting their asses kicked by over 1.5 million donors to a guy no one even heard of a few years ago...but at the same time they're also reaping the many years the Clinton mafia rode roughshod over local and state Democrats around the country, and even stabbed Al Gore in the back. At some point, chickens come home to roost and no amount of lawyers, guns or money will save you from the nest you've made for yourself, politically.
Cross posted at my regular blog, gregdewar.com