What's been done to Hillary, she did to herself. [View All]

[TheWraith]

This is in response to Radio Lady's thread about a "verbal lynching" of Hillary Clinton, found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5926709

I'm going to completely bypass the issue of the metaphor, other than to say that I think anyone who knows anything about what "lynching" means would not use the term lightly.

The truth is that the worst damage Hillary Clinton has suffered in this primary, she herself inflicted. Nobody forced her to pick up Karl Rove's playbook. Nobody forced her into fearmongering, or catering to racial bias, or blaming the media when things didn't go well for her. She chose those things.

She chose to employ dirt and attacks rather than talk about issues. She chose to play by the same rules the Republicans used against her and her husband all those years, having apparently forgotten why it was wrong. And she chose to alienate the Democratic base by telling them to get on board with a pro-war candidate, or be ignored.

She started off with a prohibitive lock on the Democratic nomination, along with a massive war chest, and by way of mismanagement and ham-handedness, she squandered it. That's not a lynching. That's self inflicted wounds.

Hillary Clinton hasn't been hung, she's been hoisted, and by her own petard. There's no doubt that Obama ran a stellar campaign, out organizing, out raising, and out campaigning her. But the person who did her the most damage was herself.