Get Ready For Bad Mom

CNN has just called Ohio for Clinton.

As Texas becomes incredibly close, and the symbolism of even a squeaker victory for either side becomes larger (although Obama is racking up big percentages in the big population areas that are just starting to report), the consensus of the pundits is that the race is going on, that Hillary has found that going negative works for her, and there is going to be much more of this through to Pennsylvania in seven weeks.

Seven weeks in which John McCain gets the kinks out of his campaign--which if anyone had been looking in the past two weeks, would have ended his chances before they began--and he looks like the adult.

This couldn't be a worse outcome for the Democrats, or for the country's future. Hillary has apparently tapped into the same fear area of the collective unconscious that GW Bush did so effectively. Only this time instead of Daddy it's Mom. It's the hectoring Mom who tells you that your hopes are false, your dreams are silly, get practical and stop thinking you can change things because the world is brutal and the best you can do is protect yourself.

She's going to do McCain's work for him, while he looks like the inclusive one, and she's going to destroy the future of the Democratic party, all for her own ambition. I have no doubt that this is going to go on, because the Clintons are energized again, they smell blood and they love the limelight. They're fighters all right. They're killing their own party's future, and the country's future, but that's all right with them.