Who Could Like This Monday

What a dull thud of a day. The prevailing media narrative was that the Democratic party is gleefully destroying itself by prolonging this campaign--and as the corrolary, that the Clintons are willing to destroy the party and cede the White House this year if they aren't nominated.

Huffpost identified today's CW as McCain benefits from the long campaign and the bitter conflict in it, which Jonathan Alter on Keith agreed was "the tipping point" being reached, and that 9 out of the last 10 elections, the party that settled on its nominee first won the general.

On the second point, Robert Novak "quoted" a "longtime associate of Billary as saying "They will do anything -- anything -- to get nominated,"and apparently the panelists on Hardball agreed that the Clinton strategy is either to win the nomination or make sure Obama loses the election so Hillary can run in 2012.

No, not a pretty day.

Elsewise, as I predicted somewhere, Hillary had to retract her "sniper fire" recollection about landing in Bosnia, thus keeping the story alive for another day. But she also did it badly--calling it "misspeaking" when it was part of a written speech, and is (or was) on her website, which will keep it alive awhile longer.

It's the kind of thing that gets into the street talk, and I'm guessing that there are some of those white men in PA who are thinking twice about her. Veterans who have been under fire aren't likely to be charitable about someone who wasn't but claims she was. Plus the other part of her story was that she was sent there because it was too dangerous for the President--so the conclusion is that Bill Clinton sent his wife--and his daughter--into mortal danger. That implication isn't going to sit well with fathers. No, even though she's told more substantive falsehoods and exaggerations about her "experience," this is the one people will talk about.