Thursday, March 13, 2008

When it rains, it pours

So this hybrid primary/caucus deal in Texas means Hillary didn't actually "win" Texas: Obama got more delegates in the end. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Then one of her key supporters and advisers tries playing the race card again, even though her campaign is actively trying to get people not to bring it up.
The icing on the cake is that another very influential and important supporter (and superdelegate) is then found to have spent tens of thousands of dollars on upscale prostitutes. And while we all acknowledge that politicians engaging in extramarital sex is nothing new, a former state attorney general with a platform of stamping out corruption and being tough on crime being caught engaging in this sort of activity, well, that's either extraordinarily hypocritical or just desserts, depending on your point of view.

Anyway, if you're Hillary, this presidential campaign is turning into an unmitigated disaster, and to be honest, a lot of it is not her fault. She can't control her husband's mouth, she certainly can't control Geraldine Ferraro, she didn't set Michigan's or Florida's primary dates or Texas's delegate allocation rules, and so forth. Not that Hillary is completely an innocent victim, here: she made several blunders along the way. But it seems to me that she is as much a victim of circumstance as her own failings. Them's the breaks!