Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Can’t sleep; the clowns will eat me

With all due respect to Alice Cooper, I think that a poster on TPM sums up Hillary Clinton’s campaign “strategy”:

Hillary’s campaign is like a clown car of strategies. What buffoonish ploy will come out next?

Lose a state? Say it doesn’t matter. Lose the electorate? Call them latte-sipping. Lose the delegates? Try and break your word and blackmail your party:

Pushing to seat the Florida delegates, at least one top Clinton fund-raiser, Paul Cejas, a Miami businessman who has given the Democratic National Committee $63,500 since 2003, has demanded Democratic officials return his 2007 contribution of $28,500, which they have agreed to do.

Or another latte-liberal:

Christopher Korge, a Florida real estate developer who is another top fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton, held an event last year in his home that brought in about $140,000 for the national party, which was set aside in a special account for the general election battle in Florida. But he told committee officials this week that if Florida’s delegate conundrum was not settled satisfactorily he would be asking for the money back.

So what’s wrong with that? Well, the fact that Clinton herself signed an oath not to campaign and participate in Michigan and Florida because they broke party rules. They were warned, she agreed to the impact, and now she wants backsies. F-you, no backsies. This isn’t a playground game, this is supposed to be vaguely democratic:

Mrs. Clinton won the primaries in both states, but the contests were not sanctioned by the party, neither candidate campaigned in the states and Mr. Obama did not even put his name on the ballot in Michigan.

But now, Senator Clinton wants them. She will still be behind. She still can’t mathematically win, so now she’s sending in her money-thugs to try and beat up Howard Dean. Is this really what you want for the future?