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March 05, 2008

Hillary poisons the well with Rovian tactics

Hillary Clinton is floating the idea of a joint ticket, with her at the top of course.

"(A double bill) may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is top of the ticket," she told The Early Show on CBS channel.

But coming on the heels of her controversial "3 a.m." TV ad we are left to wonder what contortions she would have to go through to justify a Vice President Barack Obama as first in line for the Presidency if he is so unqualified and/or incapable.

This week she launched an all-out attack on Mr Obama's ability to protect the United States, with a controversial ad aired three days ago featuring children sleeping as a global crisis broke over the White House, posing the question who the voters wanted to answer the phone at 3am to sort it out.

You can bet that John McCain and Karl Rove would not hesitate to throw that insinuation in her face every single day of the general election campaign if this does come down to a joint-ticket with Obama.

I think that P.M. Carpenter of BuzzFlash puts it best in his essay, Hillary Clinton and Apocalyptic Politics,

So much of Clinton's current playbook is straight out of Bush's 2000 "scrutiny" of John McCain, she ought to be sued for copyright violation. But nothing could be more shameless, more scurrilous or more downright unforgivable than her recent touting of Obama's ultimate opponent, the GOP's selfsame Mr. McCain, as vastly more qualified as commander in chief than the eventual Democratic nominee himself.

The irony of all this is further compounded by a recent guest column at Blue Oregon by Clintonista and former executive director of the Democratic Party of Oregon, Paddy McGuire. Paddy presumes to lecture Obama supporters on "dignity" and "grace" while getting his facts horribly wrong and glibly ignoring Hillary Clinton's own tactics.

Nobody likes to be lectured by a hypocrite.

Posted by Kevin at March 5, 2008 08:52 AM