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An interesting article in TNR based on interviews with Hillary Clinton's team as to why it all went horribly wrong.

TNR - Michelle Cottle - What went wrong ?

Many answers fell into a handful of broad themes we've been hearing for months now. (She shouldn't have run as an incumbent. She should have paid more attention to caucus states. She should have kept Bill chained in the basement at Whitehaven with a case of cheese curls and a stack of dirty movies.) Others had a distinct score-settling flavor. One respondent sent in a list of Top 25 screw ups, the first three being:

  1. Mark Penn
  2. Mark Penn
  3. Mark Penn

worth a laugh read

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 01:51:45 PM EST
That's because Hillary's team is full of idiots looking to pass blame, whether Penn or Wolfson or Williams or whomever else you can name.  No sane political strategist could ever claim that Penn did a good job.  Penn is just the little fat kid whom everybody's stealing lunch money from now that the opportunity presents itself.  With things winding down, the Clinton campaign is now all but officially the most craptacular primary campaign ever run in American history.

What went wrong was that she, like most in Congress, let Shithead launch the Awesomest Wrrr Evah!, and not only got on board as a cheerleader but has remained one even up to this point in time.  Without that 2002 vote, there would've been no credible opposition to her candidacy.  Not from Obama (who never would've run), not from Edwards (who never would've gained more than 15%), not from anyone.

You can talk about Penn alone, or the mean "boiz" on the Internets, or Hillary's inability to handle money and manage a large organization, or the ever-Bushian way she staffed her campaign with Yes Men, or the press, or or or or or.

There's a little trust to all of that.  But, in the end, it can be summarized in three words: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:06:46 PM EST
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Drew J Jones:
That's because Hillary's team is full of idiots looking to pass blame

Hillary's team is also full of Hillary, which hasn't quite turned out to be the advantage that she thought it would be.

Iraq was a symptom, not the problem. There was no point expecting Hillary to do the right thing, because she's just not that good - and likely never has been.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 10:01:13 PM EST
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Well, she was a Goldwater Girl.  I'd like someone to ask her, "Senator, which part of Goldwater's platform brought you to his campaign -- the 'Nuke the Gooks' part or the 'Beat the Negroes Back' part?"

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 11:57:13 PM EST
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