I thought I was going to be into this. I was getting high on the idea of a long nomination process that kept the Democratic candidates in the spotlight and we of the chattering classes (read: press) entertained for months.
Well, that lasted all of six weeks. Now that there’s no real news, what with this idiotic front-loaded primary season that managed to do everything but what it was designed to accomplish, we’re in tape loop soundbyte land. Politicians and journalists are obsessives, there’s no doubt about it, and when you take a bunch of obsessives and give them weeks of time where there’s nothing new under the sun they will just harp and harp and you get the point.
In short: they go crazy. Rabid even.
Maureen Dowd, who I have no real love for but does have a kind of flame haired cougarish charm, has some frightening speculation on just how crazy Team Clinton may have gone in her column today:
Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill — which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight — is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain.
If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she’d be 65.
Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic — and attended by more static — than McCain?
Note to the Nation: let’s never run an election like this again. EVER.
