How Did Hillary blow it? [View All]

[Capn Sunshine]

Hillary Clinton had everything on her side, it seemed. Name recognition. A nationwide network of political contacts from a generation of party work. Dozens of endorsements, albeit from aging singers, pols and athletes. A vaunted political operation from her husband's numerous successes. Her popular husband himself. A detailed grasp of policy. A steely determination. A sharp, calculating mind. More than $100 million. And, until Thursday night, a sense of inevitability about her Democratic nomination and even coronation as the next president, the first first lady to do that, and a triumphant return to the White House.

Now, BOOM! That's gone. She blew it.

But how?

The LA Times political blog classifies the Macro picture, but there's more two it. Our campaign whomped everyone because we know the ground game, plain and simple, and they don't. It's like driving. Everyone can do it, but some operate badly, some don't. Penn and his smarmy bunch of sycophants think they know the mechanics of a ground game, but they just proved to me they don't. They can operate a phone, but the quality of the call is bogus. They can stalk the neighborhoods for votes, but everyone thinks they are creepy. The very nature of the composition of the campaign organization organically attracts simpatico like- kind people, and I've made no secret of my contempt for the group of professional losers on board with the Clinton campaign. The DLC mantra is finally being shown as the bankrupt retread 90's relic it always has been. When your medicine show sells a tonic that made everyone sick the last time around, it's a good idea to avoid revisiting that town.

Will they learn? I don't know, but the intimation from Penn and Co. indicates they think that they need to go negative. In New Hampshire. NEW HAMPSHIRE. "Live free or die" also means "Don't bullshit me" and negative attacks are always percieved as bullshit. They also imply your candidate has nothing to offer.

Hillary better grab this campaign bus's wheel and fast. These guys advised her not to bring Bill around, which I thought was so, so wrong. They reneged because they became desperate, and desperation shows , it smells rank and foul, and you can see it a mile away. Especially in a no-bullshit zone like New Hampshire.