It’s fairly obvious to most people that if you surround yourself with the same DLC braintrust that couldn’t win an election for twelve, things are kind of pre-destined for failure.

twelve years, that is

Solis Doyle was supposed to save the Senate warchest to launch Hillary!08, but when the donors went to look, that cupboard was bare, with “only” ten million in it. PSD had spent more than fifty million in 2006 to get Hill’s numbers into the stratosphere against a flawed opponent.

But that was not her last mistake.

Later Mark Penn is mentioned. I think that might be a place to look….

20 yard penalty on Team Clinton: arrogance!

Could it be…oh I dunno…she’s a terrible candidate?

There was much talk when she was moving to NY and beginning her Senate run that she was inevitable as the Prez. It was obvious this was the plan all along, and I remember many an argument I had that this would be terrible for the DemocratIC Party. Never understood the attraction to her by some.

Her husband severely harmed any remote chance she would’ve had by his lack of zipper discipline. She’s not a “warm” personality and speaks like a robot. In two years in the Senate, Obama was responsible for approx three times as much legislation as she was. She was former head and still on the “Leadership Team” of the DLC, and fairly or unfairly, The Clinton name was already vilified by the BigMedia gasbags resulting in a large percentage of the electorate that would never vote for her, but might consider someone like Obama.

I doubt any tweaks to strategy would’ve saved her campaign.

1. Mark Penn.
2. Republican primary strategy (focus on big states under a “winner-take-all” assumption). Except, Democratic primaries haven’t worked like that in decades.
3. Bill Clinton, particularly his racist rant in South Carolina. He threw Jesse Jackson under the political bus in an attempt to do the same with Obama. Then Hilliary’s yapping about “hard-working white voters.” Once you put the George Wallace mantle on, it ain’t EVER coming off.