This just in...Hillary Clinton wins her second meaningless primary. And celebrates. That's right, hot on the heels of her victory in Michigan over "uncommitted," Hillary Clinton won the delegate-less Florida primary by 17 points. Hey, at least the other candidates' names were on the ballot this time. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote a pretty scathing review of the whole affair here.
Nevermind the fact that all of the candidates agreed not to campaign in the state, or that no delegates were up for grabs, Clinton still deemed it necessary to give herself a victory party. The thing that really sticks in my craw is that she did not give any acknowledgment of her loss in SC, a real primary, with real delegates at stake, in which she got hammered. Just another example of the Clinton machine at work, doing whatever is necessary to look successful. What should not go unnoticed here is that she blatantly violated an agreement with the other candidates not to campaign in Florida and, now that she has won, is trying to get the Democratic party to reinstate both Florida and Michigan's delegates.
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The media never hyped on this but effectively Bill Clinton gave her concession speech for her here in S.C. and then she spoke AFTER Obama if I am not mistaken. This was very poor form on her part, yet apparently pretty well accepted by the media. I wrote before at Notverbright about what a horrible candidate she was because of her inability to press the flesh and that her campaign would need to keep her away from potential supporters as much as possible (contrary to conventional wisdom) and just manipulate public opinion in through the press. When she started note "Bill and I have beat them before, and we can do it again!" I had asked a very pertinent question regarding the fact that in Bill Clinton's campaigns they won by emphasizing him and keeping her out of the picture as much as possible - I actually already had my answer, but didn't realize until I saw the S.C. primary, the plan is still the same, emphasis on Bill and hide her as much as humanly possible. Oh, boy, this will be a hum-dinger of an administration.
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