History Repeats Itself
February 10th, 2008The Clinton campaign replaced (read:fired) its campaign manager for an old friend of Hillary’s who went to school with nuns and learned about bitter loyalty there. She’s been called upon by the Senator from New York before, in 1994, when she was attempting to get out of Whitewater without an indictment. I’m not sure this is a significant move for Clinton, because I don’t know how important these races are, but Obama has clearly gained a significant amount of momentum and maybe the campaign is in more trouble than I am willing to guess, because I don’t think there’s anything to panick about with the four losses between today and yesterday in states she likely should’ve lost, except for Maine, but maybe there is cause for panick. I do think there’s cause for concern, and so does Clinton. That is why she’s been trying to get Edwards to endorse her, increasing her efforts this weekend, to try and pull away. It should help her that she has the lead for party insiders.
Wouldn’t it be a great, tragic irony if Hillary Clinton won the nomination based on party insider help? If you don’t know, Bill worked for McGovern at the convention in 1972, to win the nomination which they did despite the opposition of leadership, and now for Clinton to be in a situation where this might happen would be quite the turn of events. Of course it might be a greater irony if she lost it despite their support, and Barack Obama became the new George McGovern! (A very real possibility.)