Eleanor Clift at Newsweek pronounces the Hillary Clinton campaign dead. She opens with a visit to Clinton headquarters by an unnamed visitor. What the visitor saw is a demoralized campaign in utter disarray.
The day of reckoning for Hillary Clinton is almost here. The voters in Ohio will either deal a final blow to her campaign or provide a much needed victory that at best will give her a reprieve in the long march to the nomination. A visitor from another country recently paid a call on the Clinton campaign headquarters in Ballston, Va., a place just over the bridge from Washington but light years away. He imagined he would be present at a moment of great triumph. Instead he found a campaign on the verge of imploding. Phone bank tables were unmanned. Bins full of mail sent over from the Senate sat unattended. A lot of young women, fanatical Hillary fans all, rushed about, seemingly unclear about what they were supposed to be doing. Other aides sat in front of computer screens, gloomily reading coverage of the campaign. Howard Wolfson and Phil Singer, the campaign's communications team, weren't speaking with anybody else, just doing their own thing, whatever that might have been. In short, it was not a happy family.
That is not a portrait of a campaign that is in the groove and feeling good about itself. The description Clift gives more closely resembles a badly organized wake, minus the black bunting. I predicted a few days ago that Clinton would get pounded in Texas and Ohio. I wonder how bad it is going to be – I think her campaign expects the worst. If she does lose badly, expect the calls from Democratic leaders for her to drop out to begin as soon as the disastrous numbers start posting. Read the rest of Clift's column – it actually gets worse from that opener. That was the high point.
That’s disappointing; if ‘the white man" defeats the Messiah we’re faced with four more years of ‘McCainneoconhitlernazi and the evil rethuglian regime who hates black people, brown people, women, children, gays, and the poor’.
And another round of hate-the-troops movies from Hollywood; more comedy stuff from Mahler, Stewart, and O’Donnell about how stupid are ‘those McCain rednecks’ , how McCain helped Bush cause 9/11 to get oil from poor brown people, how the economy sucks under McCain, how McCain has ruined America’s standing in the world, how he is anti-sceince and anti-environmental etc and more etc.
The Left will not going quietly into the night if their Chosen One is not Selected and their Democrat Party will continue to applaud their based all the more.